Poems

At The Abbey Theatre DEAR Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case. When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they’ll […]

Beautiful Lofty Things BEAUTIFUL lofty things: O’Leary’s noble head; My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd: “This Land of Saints,’ and then […]

Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be […]

Beggar To Beggar Cried “TIME to put off the world and go somewhere And find my health again in the sea air,’ Beggar to beggar cried, […]

Blood And The Moon BLESSED be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, mastering it, Rose […]

Broken Dreams THERE is grey in your hair. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath When you are passing; But maybe some old gaffer mutters […]

Brown Penny I WHISPERED, “I am too young,” And then, “I am old enough”; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. […]

Byzantium THE unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ song After great cathedral gong; A starlit or […]

Chosen The lot of love is chosen. I learnt that much Struggling for an image on the track Of the whirling Zodiac. Scarce did he my […]

Church And State HERE is fresh matter, poet, Matter for old age meet; Might of the Church and the State, Their mobs put under their feet. […]