ALL things can tempt me from this craft of verse:One time it was a woman’s face, or worse —The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;Now nothing but comes readier to…
O WHAT to me the little roomThat was brimmed up with prayer and rest;He bade me out into the gloom,And my breast lies upon his breast.O what to me my…
O WHAT has made that sudden noise?What on the threshold stands?It never crossed the sea becauseJohn Bull and the sea are friends;But this is not the old seaNor this the…
He. Dear, I must be gone While night Shuts the eyes Of the household spies; That song announces dawn. She. No, night’s bird and love’s Bids all true lovers rest, While his loud song reproves The…
Know, that I would accounted beTrue brother of a companyThat sang, to sweeten Ireland’s wrong,Ballad and story, rann and song;Nor be I any less of them,Because the red-rose-bordered hemOf her,…
The old priest Peter GilliganWas weary night and dayFor half his flock were in their bedsOr under green sods lay. Once, while he nodded in a chairAt the moth-hour of…
THE GYRES! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth;Things thought too long can be no longer thought,For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth,And ancient lineaments are blotted out.Irrational streams…
IN tombs of gold and lapis lazuliBodies of holy men and women exudeMiraculous oil, odour of violet.But under heavy loads of trampled clayLie bodies of the vampires full of blood;Their…
“YOUR eyes that once were never weary of mineAre bowed in sotrow under pendulous lids,Because our love is waning.”And then She:“Although our love is waning, let us standBy the lone…
{My Soul} I summon to the winding ancient stair;Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,Upon the breathless starlit air,“Upon the star that marks the hidden…