Epigram (George William Russell Poems)
OH, be not led away, Lured by the colour of the sun-rich day. The gay romance of song Unto the ...
OH, be not led away, Lured by the colour of the sun-rich day. The gay romance of song Unto the ...
THE HERO first thought it To him 'twas a deed: To those who retaught it, A chain on their speed. ...
BEARDED with dewy grass the mountains thrust Their blackness high into the still grey light, Deepening to blue: far up ...
THE WONDER of the world is o'er: The magic from the sea is gone: There is no unimagined shore, No ...
THE CHILDREN were shouting together And racing along the sands, A glimmer of dancing shadows, A dovelike flutter of hands. ...
IN the black pool of the midnight Lu has slung the morning star, And its foam in rippling silver whitens ...
I WOULD not have the love of lips and eyes, The ancient ways of love: But in my heart I ...
I PITIED one whose tattered dress Was patched, and stained with dust and rain; He smiled on me; I could ...
A DIAMOND glow of winter o'er the world: Amid the chilly halo nigh the west Flickers a phantom violet bloom ...
WHAT domination of what darkness dies this hour, And through what new, rejoicing, winged, ethereal power O'erthrown, the cells opened, ...
OVER all the dream-built margin, flushed with grey and hoary light, Glint the bubble planets tossing in the dead black ...
TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory: Gay are the hills with song: earth's faery children leave More ...
ONE thing in all things have I seen: One thought has haunted earth and air: Clangour and silence both have ...
NOT unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways: One timeless hour in time we caught from the long ...
OH, the sudden wings arising from the ploughed fields brown Showered aloft in spray of song the wild-bird twitter floats ...
WHO are exiles? As for me Where beneath the diamond dome Lies the light on hill or tree, There my ...
DUSK wraps the village in its dim caress; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft through miles ...
ERE I lose myself in the vastness and drowse myself with the peace, While I gaze on the light and ...
O HOLY SPIRIT of the Hazel, hearken now: Though shining suns and silver moons burn on the bough, And though ...
THE GREY road whereupon we trod became as holy ground: The eve was all one voice that breathed its message ...
FAR up the dim twilight fluttered Moth-wings of vapour and flame: The lights danced over the mountains, Star after star ...
BY many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led: But as I went through ...
THEY call us aliens, we are told, Because our wayward visions stray From that dim banner they unfold, The dreams ...
ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold, And its shadowy fleece above us waves the forest ...
THOSE delicate wanderers, The wind, the star, the cloud, Ever before mine eyes, As to an altar bowed, Light and ...
COME earth's little children pit-pat from their burrows on the hill; Hangs within the gloom its weary head the shining ...
A SHAFT of fire that falls like dew, And melts and maddens all my blood, From out thy spirit flashes ...
SEE where the light streams over Connla's fountain Starward aspire! The sacred sign upon the holy mountain Shines in white ...
OUR true hearts are forever lonely: A wistfulness is in our thought: Our lights are like the dawns which only ...
WHERE we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil ...
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