Poems

Sweet Innisfallen Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well, May calm and sunshine long be thine! How fair thou art let others tell — To feel how fair […]

Take Back the Virgin Page Written on Returning a Blank Book Take back the virgin page, White and unwritten still; Some hand, more calm and sage, […]

The Donkey and His Panniers A Donkey, whose talent for burdens was wondrous, So much that you’d swear he rejoic’d in a load, One day had […]

The Dream of Those Days The dream of those days when first I sung thee is o’er Thy triumph hath stain’d the charm thy sorrows then […]

The Fortune-Teller Down in the valley come meet me to-night, And I’ll tell you your fortune truly As ever ’twas told, by the new-moon’s light, To […]

The Ghost of Miltiades The Ghost of Miltiades came at night, And he stood by the bed of the Benthamite, And he said, in a voice, […]

The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls The harp that once through Tara’s halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls, […]

The Irish Peasant to his Mistress Through grief and through danger thy smile hath cheer’d my way, Till hope seem’d to bud from each thorn that […]

The Lake of the Dismal Swamp “THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; And she’s gone to […]

The Legacy When in death I shall calmly recline, O bear my heart to my mistress dear, Tell her it lived upon smiles and wine Of […]