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 ...
WHEN the morning breaks above us And the wild sweet stars have fled, By the faery hands that love us ...
I PAUSED beside the cabin door and saw the King of Kings at play, Tumbled upon the grass I spied ...
THEY tell me that the earth is still the same Although the Red Branch now is but a name, That ...
WHILE the earth is dark and grey How I laugh within. I know In my breast what ardours gay From ...
WHERE the Greyhound River windeth through a loneliness so deep, Scarce a wild fowl shakes the quiet that the purple ...
I WOULD I could weave in The colour, the wonder, The song I conceive in My heart while I ponder, ...
STILL rests the heavy share on the dark soil: Upon the black mould thick the dew-damp lies: The horse waits ...
HOW came this pigmy rabble spun, After the gods and kings of old, Upon a tapestry begun With threads of ...
ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold, And its shadowy fleece above us waves the forest ...
HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose; The spirit woke anew in nightly birth Unto the vastness where forever glows ...
WHEN the dawn comes forth I wonder Will our sad, sad hearts awaken, And the grief we laboured under From ...
IN the black pool of the midnight Lu has slung the morning star, And its foam in rippling silver whitens ...
COME earth's little children pit-pat from their burrows on the hill; Hangs within the gloom its weary head the shining ...
LIGHTEST of dancers, with no thought Thy glimmering feet beat on my heart, Gayest of singers, with no care Waking ...
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