The Earth Breath (George William Russell Poems)
FROM the cool and dark-lipped furrows Breathes a dim delight Through the woodland's purple plumage To the diamond night. Aureoles ...
FROM the cool and dark-lipped furrows Breathes a dim delight Through the woodland's purple plumage To the diamond night. Aureoles ...
I AM the tender voice calling "Away," Whispering between the beatings of the heart, And inaccessible in dewy eyes I ...
NOW when the spirit in us wakes and broods, Filled with home yearnings, drowsily it flings From its deep heart ...
THERE were many burning hours on the heartsweet tide, And we passed away from ourselves, forgetting all The immortal moods ...
ONE thing in all things have I seen: One thought has haunted earth and air: Clangour and silence both have ...
A LAUGHTER in the diamond air, a music in the trembling grass; And one by one the words of light ...
DUSK wraps the village in its dim caress; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft through miles ...
THEY tell me that the earth is still the same Although the Red Branch now is but a name, That ...
DO you not feel the white glow in your breast, my bird? That is the flame of love I send ...
DARK head by the fireside brooding, Where upon your ears Whirlwinds of the earth intruding Sound in wrath and tears: ...
THOUGH your eyes with tears were blind, Pain upon the path you trod: Well we knew, the hosts behind, Voice ...
WHERE are now the dreams divine, Fires that lit the dawning soul, As the ruddy colours shine Through an opal ...
LIKE winds or waters were her ways: The flowing tides, the airy streams, Are troubled not by any dreams; They ...
IN summer time, with high imaginings Of proud Crusaders and of Paynim kings, The children crowned themselves with famous names, ...
I GO down from the hills half in gladness, and half with a pain I depart, Where the Mother with ...
LET us leave our island woods grown dim and blue; O'er the waters creeping the pearl dust of the eve ...
I HAVE wept a million tears: Pure and proud one, where are thine, What the gain though all thy years ...
AS flow the rivers to the sea Adown from rocky hill or plain, A thousand ages toiled for thee And ...
YOU remember, dear, together Two children, you and I, Sat once in the autumn weather, Watching the autumn sky. There ...
I WOULD I could weave in The colour, the wonder, The song I conceive in My heart while I ponder, ...
MEN have made them gods of love, Sun-gods, givers of the rain, Deities of hill and grove: I have made ...
OH, at the eagle's height To lie i' the sweet of the sun, While veil after veil takes flight And ...
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 ...
NOT unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways: One timeless hour in time we caught from the long ...
I FAIN would leave the tender songs I sang to you of old, Thinking the oft-sung beauty wrongs The magic ...
BY many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led: But as I went through ...
THE WONDER of the world is o'er: The magic from the sea is gone: There is no unimagined shore, No ...
I HEARD them in their sadness say, "The earth rebukes the thought of God; We are but embers wrapped in ...
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