Poems

The King of Ireland’s Cairn Blow softly down the valley, O wind, and stir the fern That waves its green fronds over The King of Ireland’s […]

The Love-Talker I met the Love-Talker one eve in the glen, He was handsomer than any of our handsome young men, His eyes were blacker than […]

The Song of Ciabhan To the Isle of Peace I turn our prow: No angry seas Shall fright you now; But calm lake waters Lie smooth […]

The Well o’ the World’s End Beyond the four seas of Eire, beyond the sunset’s rim, It lies half-forgot, in a valley deep and dim; Like […]

Turlough MacSweeney A health to you, Piper, And your pipes silver-tongued, clear and sweet in their crooning! Full of the music they gathered at morn On […]

“booh!” On afternoons, when baby boy has had a splendid nap, And sits, like any monarch on his throne, in nurse’s lap, In some such wise […]

“lollyby, lolly, lollyby” Last night, whiles that the curfew bell ben ringing, I heard a moder to her dearie singing “Lollyby, lolly, lollyby.” And presently that […]

A Chaucerian Paraphrase of Horace Syn that you, Chloe, to your moder sticken, Maketh all ye yonge bacheloures full sicken; Like as a lyttel deere you […]

A drinking song Come, brothers, share the fellowship We celebrate to-night; There’s grace of song on every lip And every heart is light! But first, before […]

A heine love song The image of the moon at night All trembling in the ocean lies, But she, with calm and steadfast light, Moves proudly […]