Poems

On A Political Prisoner SHE that but little patience knew, From childhood on, had now so much A grey gull lost its fear and flew Down […]

On Being Asked For A War Poem I THINK it better that in times like these A poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth We have […]

On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University… Where, where but here have pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage, To shake […]

On Those That Hated The ‘Playboy Of The Western World,’ 1907 Once, when midnight smote the air, Eunuchs ran through Hell and met On every crowded […]

On Woman MAY God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man A friendship of her kind […]

Owen Aherne And His Dancers A STRANGE thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, […]

Parnell PARNELL came down the road, he said to a cheering man: “Ireland shall get her freedom and you still break stone.

Parnell’s Funeral I Under the Great Comedian’s tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud […]

Parting He. Dear, I must be gone While night Shuts the eyes Of the household spies; That song announces dawn. She. No, night’s bird and love’s […]

Paudeen INDIGNANT at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning […]