Immortality (George William Russell Poems)
WE must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the ...
WE must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the ...
I WOULD I could weave in The colour, the wonder, The song I conceive in My heart while I ponder, ...
THE EAST was crowned with snow-cold bloom And hung with veils of pearly fleece: They died away into the gloom, ...
DUSK, a pearl-grey river, o'er Hill and vale puts out the day- What do you wonder at, asthore, What's away ...
THE HERO first thought it To him 'twas a deed: To those who retaught it, A chain on their speed. ...
WE are desert leagues apart; Time is misty ages now Since the warmth of heart to heart Chased the shadows ...
IN the black pool of the midnight Lu has slung the morning star, And its foam in rippling silver whitens ...
WHEN the unquiet hours depart And far away their tumults cease, Within the twilight of the heart We bathe in ...
WHAT domination of what darkness dies this hour, And through what new, rejoicing, winged, ethereal power O'erthrown, the cells opened, ...
HOW came this pigmy rabble spun, After the gods and kings of old, Upon a tapestry begun With threads of ...
BY many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led: But as I went through ...
WHO are exiles? As for me Where beneath the diamond dome Lies the light on hill or tree, There my ...
WHERE we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil ...
ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold, And its shadowy fleece above us waves the forest ...
THE CHILDREN awoke in their dreaming While earth lay dewy and still: They followed the rill in its gleaming To ...
SEE where the light streams over Connla's fountain Starward aspire! The sacred sign upon the holy mountain Shines in white ...
NOW the rooftree of the midnight spreading, Buds in citron, green, and blue: From afar its mystic odours shedding, Child, ...
ALL the morn a spirit gay Breathes within my heart a rhyme, 'Tis but hide and seek we play In ...
HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose; The spirit woke anew in nightly birth Unto the vastness where forever glows ...
A LAUGHTER in the diamond air, a music in the trembling grass; And one by one the words of light ...
THERE in her old-world garden smiles A symbol of the world's desire, Striving with quaint and lovely wiles To bind ...
BEARDED with dewy grass the mountains thrust Their blackness high into the still grey light, Deepening to blue: far up ...
UNTO the deep the deep heart goes, It lays its sadness nigh the breast: Only the Mighty Mother knows The ...
OH, the sudden wings arising from the ploughed fields brown Showered aloft in spray of song the wild-bird twitter floats ...
STILL as the holy of holies breathes the vast, Within its crystal depths the stars grow dim; Fire on the ...
A SHAFT of fire that falls like dew, And melts and maddens all my blood, From out thy spirit flashes ...
THOSE delicate wanderers, The wind, the star, the cloud, Ever before mine eyes, As to an altar bowed, Light and ...
THE WINDS, the stars, and the skies though wrought By the heavenly King yet know it not; And man who ...
THE MIGHT that shaped itself through storm and stress In chaos, here is lulled in breathing sweet; Under the long ...
WHAT miracle was it that made this grey Rathgar Seem holy earth, a leaping-place from star to star? I know ...
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