Poems

A Coat I MADE my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it […]

A Cradle Song THE angels are stooping Above your bed; They weary of trooping With the whimpering dead. God’s laughing in Heaven To see you so […]

A Crazed Girl THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not […]

A Deep Sworn Vow Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the […]

A Dialogue Of Self And Soul I My Soul , I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon […]

A Dramatic Poem First Sailor. Has he not led us into these waste seas For long enough? Second Sailor. Aye, long and long enough. First Sailor. […]

A Dream Of Death I DREAMED that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand, And they had nailed the boards above her […]

A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety COME swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I […]

A Faery Song Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania, in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech. WE who are old, old and […]

A First Confession I admit the briar Entangled in my hair Did not injure me; My blenching and trembling, Nothing but dissembling, Nothing but coquetry. I […]