The Rising Of The Moon (John Keegan Casey Poems)
Oh! then tell me, Sean O'Farrell,Tell me why you hurry so?"Hush, mo bhuachaill, hush and listen,"And his cheeks were all ...
Oh! then tell me, Sean O'Farrell,Tell me why you hurry so?"Hush, mo bhuachaill, hush and listen,"And his cheeks were all ...
Oh, when the land is white as milk With bloom that lets no leaf between,When trees are clad in grass-green silk And ...
Sleep that like the couched dove Broods o'er the weary eye, Dreams that with soft heavings move The heart of ...
THE Banshee cries on the rising wind "O-hoho, O hoho-o-o!"The dead to free and the quick to bind--(Close fast the shutter ...
They came in the hush of the midnight, In the glare of the noonday startOut from the graves we made them-- The ...
Thy memory, green Erin, haunteth me Since first I stood upon Killarney's shore, Or saw from Limerick's spires the Shannon pourIts turbid ...
Long, long ago in the woods of Gortnamona,I thought the birds were singing in the blackthorn tree;But oh, it was ...
It was the Black Earl Roderick Who rode towards the south; The frown was heavy on his brow, The sneer ...
When I have a house . . . as I sometime may . . .I'll suit my fancy in every ...
Thrice in the night the priest arose From broken sleep to kneel and pray. "Hush, poor ghost, till the red ...
A spirit speeding down on All Souls' Eve From the wide gates of that mysterious shore Where sleep the dead, ...
O Lady Aideen, will you wed with me, wed with me in the early morning? A silken gown for your ...
Wrapt in the darkness of the night, Gathering in silence on the shore, Wild geese flown from hiding on the ...
This Consul Casement-he who heard the cry Of stricken people-and who in his fight To lift the torture load from ...
The kine of my father, they are straying from my keeping; The young goat's at mischief, but little can I ...
As we came down the old boreen,Rose and I - Rose and I,At vesper time on Sunday e'en,We heard a ...
Now God between us and all harm, For I to-night have seen A banshee in the shadow pass Along the ...
I am only nineteen My whole life is changing Tonight I see her Shuttered eyes in my dreams I cannot ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
"Black is the sky, but the land is white-- (O the wind, the snow and the storm!)-- Father, where is ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
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