WERE you but lying cold and dead,And lights were paling out of the West,You would come hither, and bend your head,And I would lay my head on your breast;And you…
{Fergus.} This whole day have I followed in the rocks,And you have changed and flowed from shape toshape,First as a raven on whose ancient wingsScarcely a feather lingered, then you…
ONCE, when midnight smote the air,Eunuchs ran through Hell and metOn every crowded street to stareUpon great Juan riding by:Even like these to rail and sweatStaring upon his sinewy thigh.
THOUGH you are in your shining days,Voices among the crowdAnd new friends busy with your praise,Be not unkind or proud,But think about old friends the most:Time’s bitter flood will rise,Your…
AROUND me the images of thirty years:An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side;Casement upon trial, half hidden by the bars,Guarded; Griffith staring in hysterical pride;Kevin O’Higgins’ countenance that wearsA gentle questioning…
YOU waves, though you dance by my feet like childrenat play,Though you glow and you glance, though you purr andyou dart;In the Junes that were warmer than these are, the…
PALE brows, still hands and dim hair,I had a beautiful friendAnd dreamed that the old despairWould end in love in the end:She looked in my heart one dayAnd saw your…
KUSTA BEN LUKA is my name, I writeTo Abd Al-Rabban; fellow-roysterer once,Now the good Caliph’s learned Treasurer,And for no ear but his.Carry this letterThrough the great gallery of the Treasure…
WHEN I play on my fiddle in Dooney.Folk dance like a wave of the sea;My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet,My brother in Mocharabuiee.I passed my brother and cousin:They read in…