Why should I blame her that she filled my daysWith misery, or that she would of lateHave taught ignorant men most violent ways,Or hurled the little streets upon the great,Had…

CUMHAL called out, bending his head,Till Dathi came and stood,With a blink in his eyes, at the cave-mouth,Between the wind and the wood.And Cumhal said, bending his knees,“I have come…

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…

WHAT need you, being come to sense,But fumble in a greasy tillAnd add the halfpence to the penceAnd prayer to shivering prayer, untilYou have dried the marrow from the bone?For…

THOUGH leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.

POETRY, music, I have loved, and yetBecause of those new deadThat come into my soul and escapeConfusion of the bed,Or those begotten or unbegottenPerning in a band,1Or those begotten or…

The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spearsSuddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the criesOf unknown perishing armies beat about my ears.We…

WHAT if I bade you leaveThe cavern of the mind?There’s better exerciseIn the sunlight and wind.I never bade you goTo Moscow or to Rome.Renounce that drudgery,Call the Muses home.Seek those…

If any man drew nearWhen I was young,I thought, ‘He holds her dear,’And shook with hate and fear.But O! ’twas bitter wrongIf he could pass her byWith an indifferent eye.…

IHer Courtesy WITH the old kindness, the old distinguished grace,She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red hairpropped upon pillows, rouge on the pallor of her face.She would not…