THERE’S many a strong farmerWhose heart would break in two,If he could see the townlandThat we are riding to;Boughs have their fruit and blossomAt all times of the year;Rivers are…

GOD guard me from those thoughts men thinkIn the mind alone;He that sings a lasting songThinks in a marrow-bone;From all that makes a wise old manThat can be praised of…

HAS no one said those daringKind eyes should be more learn’d?Or warned you how despairingThe moths are when they are burned?I could have warned you; but you are young,So we…

I went out aloneTo sing a song or two,My fancy on a man,And you know who. Another came in sightThat on a stick reliedTo hold himself upright;I sat and cried.…

I have old women’s secrets nowThat had those of the young;Madge tells me what I dared not thinkWhen my blood was strong,And what had drowned a lover onceSounds like an…

HIS chosen comrades thought at schoolHe must grow a famous man;He thought the same and lived by rule,All his twenties crammed with toil;“What then?’ sang Plato’s ghost.  “What then?” Everything he…

Pardon, old fathers, if you still remainSomewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end,Old Dublin merchant “free of the ten and four”Or trading out of Galway into Spain;Old country scholar, Robert…

Pardon, old fathers, if you still remainSomewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end,Old Dublin merchant “free of the ten and four”Or trading out of Galway into Spain;Old country scholar, Robert…

CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP BRING me to the blasted oakThat I, midnight upon the stroke,(All find safety in the tomb.)May call down curses on his headBecause of my dear…

WHEN you and my true lover meetAnd he plays tunes between your feet.Speak no evil of the soul,Nor think that body is the whole,For I that am his daylight ladyKnow…