The Veils of Maya (George William Russell Poems)
MOTHER, with whom our lives should be, Not hatred keeps our lives apart: Charmed by some lesser glow in thee, ...
MOTHER, with whom our lives should be, Not hatred keeps our lives apart: Charmed by some lesser glow in thee, ...
BY many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led: But as I went through ...
WITH the glamour of the Gay How you made our hearts to flame; Gave each life some airy aim: Ever ...
A DIAMOND glow of winter o'er the world: Amid the chilly halo nigh the west Flickers a phantom violet bloom ...
I COULD praise you once with beautiful words ere you came And entered my life with love in a wind ...
THE BLUE dusk ran between the streets: my love was winged within my mind, It left to-day and yesterday and ...
HOW I could see through and through you! So unconscious, tender, kind, More than ever was known to you Of ...
WHERE we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil ...
LOVE and pity are pleading with me this hour. What is this voice that stays me forbidding to yield, Offering ...
THERE in her old-world garden smiles A symbol of the world's desire, Striving with quaint and lovely wiles To bind ...
THE CHILDREN awoke in their dreaming While earth lay dewy and still: They followed the rill in its gleaming To ...
WHAT miracle was it that made this grey Rathgar Seem holy earth, a leaping-place from star to star? I know ...
WE laid him to rest with tenderness; Homeward we turned in the twilight's gold; We thought in ourselves with dumb ...
THIS mood hath known all beauty, for it sees O'erwhelmed majesties In these pale forms, and kingly crowns of gold ...
HOW often have I said, "We may not grieve for the immortal dead." And now, poor blenchèd heart, Thy ruddy ...
UNTO the deep the deep heart goes, It lays its sadness nigh the breast: Only the Mighty Mother knows The ...
WHEN for love it was fain of The wild heart was chidden, When the white limbs were clothed And the ...
I WOULD I could weave in The colour, the wonder, The song I conceive in My heart while I ponder, ...
FAR up the dim twilight fluttered Moth-wings of vapour and flame: The lights danced over the mountains, Star after star ...
THOUGH now thou hast failed and art fallen, despair not because of defeat, Though lost for a while be thy ...
DUSK, a pearl-grey river, o'er Hill and vale puts out the day- What do you wonder at, asthore, What's away ...
THOUGH your eyes with tears were blind, Pain upon the path you trod: Well we knew, the hosts behind, Voice ...
WHEN the morning breaks above us And the wild sweet stars have fled, By the faery hands that love us ...
THROUGH the blue shadowy valley I hastened in a dream: Flower rich the night, flower soft the air, a blue ...
WHEN the soul sought refuge in the place of rest, Overborne by strife and pain beyond control, From some secret ...
I PAUSED beside the cabin door and saw the King of Kings at play, Tumbled upon the grass I spied ...
IT'S a lonely road through bogland to the lake at Carrowmore, And a sleeper there lies dreaming where the water ...
WELL, when all is said and done Best within my narrow way, May some angel of the sun Muse memorial ...
AS one by one the veils took flight, The day withdrew, the stars came up. The spirit issued pale and ...
ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold, And its shadowy fleece above us waves the forest ...
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