Poems

The Rose Of Peace IF Michael, leader of God’s host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven’s door-post He would his […]

The Rose Of The World WHO dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new […]

The Rose Tree ‘O WORDS are lightly spoken,’ Said Pearse to Connolly, ‘Maybe a breath of politic words Has withered our Rose Tree; Or maybe but […]

The Sad Shepherd THERE was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend, And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming, Went walking with slow steps along […]

The Saint And The Hunchback Hunchback. Stand up and lift your hand and bless A man that finds great bitterness In thinking of his lost renown. […]

The Scholars BALD heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men, tossing on their beds, Rhymed […]

The Second Coming TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is […]

The Secret Rose FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those Who sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre, Or […]

The Seven Sages The First. My great-grandfather spoke to Edmund Burke In Grattan’s house. The Second. My great-grandfather shared A pot-house bench with Oliver Goldsmith once. […]

The Song Of The Happy Shepherd THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey […]