‘Love is allUnsatisfiedThat cannot take the wholeBody and soul’;And that is what Jane said. ‘Take the sourIf you take meI can scoff and lourAnd scold for an hour.’“That’s certainly the…

I, THE poet William Yeats,With old mill boards and sea-green slates,And smithy work from the Gort forge,Restored this tower for my wife George;And may these characters remainWhen all is ruin…

Because I am mad about womenI am mad about the hills,’Said that wild old wicked manWho travels where God wills.“Not to die on the straw at home.Those hands to close…

KING EOCHAID came at sundown to a woodWestward of Tara.  Hurrying to his queenHe had outridden his war-wasted menThat with empounded cattle trod the mire,And where beech-trees had mixed a pale…

I THOUGHT of your beauty, and this arrow,Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.There’s no man may look upon her, no man,As when newly grown to be…

THEY hold their public meetings whereOur most renowned patriots stand,One among the birds of the air,A stumpier on either hand;And all the popular statesmen sayThat purity built up the StateAnd…

A DOLL in the doll-maker’s houseLooks at the cradle and bawls:“That is an insult to us.’But the oldest of all the dolls,Who had seen, being kept for show,Generations of his…

PARNELL came down the road, he said to a cheering man:“Ireland shall get her freedom and you still break stone.

SHE that but little patience knew,From childhood on, had now so muchA grey gull lost its fear and flewDown to her cell and there alit,And there endured her fingers’ touchAnd…

Once more the storm is howling, and half hidUnder this cradle-hood and coverlidMy child sleeps on. There is no obstacleBut Gregory’s Wood and one bare hillWhereby the haystack and roof-levelling…