Poems

Peace AH, that Time could touch a form That could show what Homer’s age Bred to be a hero’s wage. “Were not all her life but […]

Politics HOW can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here’s a travelled man that […]

Presences THIS night has been so strange that it seemed As if the hair stood up on my head. From going-down of the sun I have […]

Quarrel In Old Age WHERE had her sweetness gone? What fanatics invent In this blind bitter town, Fantasy or incident Not worth thinking of, put her […]

Reconciliation SOME may have blamed you that you took away The verses that could move them on the day When, the ears being deafened, the sight […]

Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland THE old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand, Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left […]

Remorse For Intemperate Speech I ranted to the knave and fool, But outgrew that school, Would transform the part, Fit audience found, but cannot rule My […]

Responsibilities – Closing While I, that reed-throated whisperer Who comes at need, although not now as once A clear articulation in the air, But inwardly, surmise […]

Responsibilities – Introduction Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain Somewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end, Old Dublin merchant “free of the ten and four” […]

Roger Casement I SAY that Roger Casement Did what he had to do. He died upon the gallows, But that is nothing new. Afraid they might […]