Poems

Stream And Sun At Glendalough THROUGH intricate motions ran Stream and gliding sun And all my heart seemed gay: Some stupid thing that I had done […]

Supernatural Songs Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night With open book you ask me what […]

Sweet Dancer THE girl goes dancing there On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth Grass plot of the garden; Escaped from bitter youth, Escaped out of her crowd, […]

Swift’s Epitaph SWIFT has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveller; he Served human liberty.

Symbols A STORM BEATEN old watch-tower, A blind hermit rings the hour. All-destroying sword-blade still Carried by the wandering fool. Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade, Beauty […]

That The Night Come SHE lived in storm and strife, Her soul had such desire For what proud death may bring That it could not endure […]

The Apparitions BECAUSE there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible to a man of […]

The Arrow I THOUGHT of your beauty, and this arrow, Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow. There’s no man may look upon […]

The Ballad of Father Gilligan The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day For half his flock were in their beds Or under green […]

The Ballad Of Father O’Hart GOOD Father John O’Hart In penal days rode out To a Shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe and […]