Poems

Drinking Song Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old […]

Easter 1916 I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with […]

Ego Dominus Tuus Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on beside the open […]

Ephemera “YOUR eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids, Because our love is waning.” And then She: “Although […]

Fallen Majesty Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face, And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this hand alone, Like some last courtier […]

Father And Child She hears me strike the board and say That she is under ban Of all good men and women, Being mentioned with a […]

Fergus And The Druid Fergus . This whole day have I followed in the rocks, And you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, First […]

For Anne Gregory “NEVER shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not […]

Fragments I LOCKE sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. II Where got I that truth? Out of […]

Friends NOW must I these three praise — Three women that have wrought What joy is in my days: One because no thought, Nor those unpassing […]