Padraic Colum

My young love said to me,"My mother won't
And my father won't slight
For your lack of kind."And she stepped away from
And this she did say:"It will not be long, love

RE Pilate's Court is:
None may clatter nor
Where the Wolf giving
To the Twins glares on all"Strip Him and scourge

A gaunt built woman and her son-in-law— A broad-faced fellow, with such flesh as shows Nothing but easy nature—and his wife,
The woman’s daughter, who spills all her talk Out of a wide mouth, but who has eyes as gray As Connemara, where the…

An age being mathematical, these flowers Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prized By men with wakened, speculative minds,
And when with mathematics they explored The Macrocosm, and came at last to The Vital Spirit of the World, and…

HE birds that soar break
Like heavy bodies hurled!
Not so the birds of
They move as in a

RE is an hour, they say,
On which your dream has power:
Then all you wish for comes,
As comes the lost

'Tis long since, long since, since I heardA tin-whistle played,
And heard the tunes, the ha'penny
That nobody made!
The tunes that were before

HE City clocks point out the
They look like moons on their darkened towers-And I who was shown my
Thrice, but have no sense of location,
Am back again at one or the

HT," you said, "
to-night, all Ireland
The curlews call." The dinner-talk went on,
And I knew what you heard and what you saw

O woman, shapely as the swan,
On your account I shall not die:
The men you've slain — a trivial clan — Were less than I.
I ask me shall I die for these — For blossom teeth and scarlet lips — And shall that delicate swan-shape Bring…

First Old Man He threw his crutched stick down: there came Into his face the anger flame,
And he spoke viciously of one Who thwarted him—his son’s son.
He turned his head away.—“I hate Absurdity of language, prate From growing…

The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,
Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:
Silently rocking and rocking,
The moon-cradle out in the sky.

My young love said to me:
My mother won't mind,
And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind.
She put her arms 'round me; these words she did say:

IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet,
Nor my wake house a silent place :
For who would keep back the
Who would touch my breast and my face?

HE blackbird's in the briar,
The seagull's on the ground-They are nests, and they're more than nests," he said,"They are tokens I have found.
There, where the rain-dashed
Marks an empty glade

Sunset and silence!
A man: around him earth savage, earth broken;
Beside him two horses — a plough!
Earth savage, earth broken, the brutes, the dawn man there in the sunset

Two little creatures with faces the size of a pair of pennies are clasping each other "Ah do not leave me" One says to the other in the high monkey - cage in the beast shop there are no people to gape at them now for people are loth…

The Swallows
EN to us
Your fields, and your cotes, and your glebes;
Secret our nests

I'LL be an otter, and I'll let you swimA mate beside me; we will venture downA deep, full river when the sky
Is shut of the sun; spoilers are we;
Thick-coated; no dog's tooth can bite at our
With ears and eyes of poachers; deep-earthed

ED and scald-necked,
They sit in evil state;
Raw marks upon their
As on men's wearing chains.