THERE where the course is,Delight makes all of the one mind,The riders upon the galloping horses,The crowd that closes in behind:We, too, had good attendance once,Hearers and hearteners of the…

I have met them at close of dayComing with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among greyEighteenth-century houses.I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered…

ON thrones from China to PeruAll sorts of kings have satThat men and women of all sortsproclaimed both good and great;And what’s the odds if such as theseFor reason of…

I HAVE heard the pigeons of the Seven WoodsMake their faint thunder, and the garden beesHum in the lime-tree flowers; and put awayThe unavailing outcries and the old bitternessThat empty…

A CURSING rogue with a merry face,A bundle of rags upon a crutch,Stumbled upon that windy placeCalled Cruachan, and it was as muchAs the one sturdy leg could doTo keep…

ARGUMENT.  Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, theMaster of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own landamong the dead, told to each a story of the other’s death,…

I HAVE no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde,Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle,Where one found Lancelot crazed and hid him for a while;Nor Uladh, when Naoise had thrown…

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and…

I have pointed out the yelling pack,The hare leap to the wood,And when I pass a complimentRejoice as lover shouldAt the drooping of an eye,At the mantling of the blood.…

THESE are the clouds about the fallen sun,The majesty that shuts his burning eye:The weak lay hand on what the strong has done,Till that be tumbled that was lifted highAnd…