We should be hidden from their eyes,Being but holy showsAnd bodies broken like a thornWhereon the bleak north blows,To think of buried HectorAnd that none living knows. The women take…

I I saw a staring virgin standWhere holy Dionysus died,And tear the heart out of his side.And lay the heart upon her handAnd bear that beating heart away;Of Magnus Annus…

Epilogue to “A Vision’ MIDNIGHT has come, and the great Christ Church BellAnd may a lesser bell sound through the room;And it is All Souls’ Night,And two long glasses brimmed…

The jester walked in the garden:The garden had fallen still;He bade his soul rise upwardAnd stand on her window-sill. It rose in a straight blue garment,When owls began to call:It…

YOU ask what — I have found, and far and wide I go:Nothing but Cromwell’s house and Cromwell’s mur-derous crew,The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,And the…

I SWEAR by what the sages spokeRound the Mareotic LakeThat the Witch of Atlas knew,Spoke and set the cocks a-crow. Swear by those horsemen, by those womenComplexion and form prove…

NOW must I these three praise —Three women that have wroughtWhat joy is in my days:One because no thought,Nor those unpassing cares,No, not in these fifteenMany-times-troubled years,Could ever come betweenMind…

I SOUGHT a theme and sought for it in vain,I sought it daily for six weeks or so.Maybe at last, being but a broken man,I must be satisfied with my…

THE Roaring Tinker if you like,But Mannion is my name,And I beat up the common sortAnd think it is no shame.The common breeds the common,A lout begets a lout,So when…

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;And…