Forgiveness (George William Russell Poems)
AT dusk the window panes grew grey; The wet world vanished in the gloom; The dim and silver end of ...
AT dusk the window panes grew grey; The wet world vanished in the gloom; The dim and silver end of ...
WHEN the soul sought refuge in the place of rest, Overborne by strife and pain beyond control, From some secret ...
OUT of the dusky chamber of the brain Flows the imperial will through dream on dream: The fires of life ...
COME earth's little children pit-pat from their burrows on the hill; Hangs within the gloom its weary head the shining ...
THE CHILDREN awoke in their dreaming While earth lay dewy and still: They followed the rill in its gleaming To ...
WHEN in my shadowy hours I pierce the hidden heart of hopes and fears, They change into immortal joys or ...
I WOULD not have the love of lips and eyes, The ancient ways of love: But in my heart I ...
WE turned back mad from the mystic mountains, All foamed with red and with elfin gold: Up from the heart ...
LET us leave our island woods grown dim and blue; O'er the waters creeping the pearl dust of the eve ...
SHADOWWHO art thou, O Glory, In flame from the deep Where stars chant their story; Why trouble my sleep? I ...
ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold, And its shadowy fleece above us waves the forest ...
ONE thing in all things have I seen: One thought has haunted earth and air: Clangour and silence both have ...
WITH Thee a moment! Then what dreams have play! Traditions of eternal toil arise, Search for the high, austere and ...
THE EAST was crowned with snow-cold bloom And hung with veils of pearly fleece: They died away into the gloom, ...
I WOKE to find my pillow wet With the tears for deeds deep hid in sleep. I knew no sorrow ...
WHO is that goddess to whom men should pray, But her from whom their hearts have turned away, Out of ...
WHEN the morning breaks above us And the wild sweet stars have fled, By the faery hands that love us ...
OVER all the dream-built margin, flushed with grey and hoary light, Glint the bubble planets tossing in the dead black ...
HOW shallow is this mere that gleams! Its depth of blue is from the skies, And from a distant sun ...
WHO would think this quiet breather From the world had taken flight? Yet within the form we see there Wakes ...
A FRIENDLY mountain I know; As I lie on the green slope there It sets my heart in a glow ...
SEE where the light streams over Connla's fountain Starward aspire! The sacred sign upon the holy mountain Shines in white ...
HOW I could see through and through you! So unconscious, tender, kind, More than ever was known to you Of ...
OUR true hearts are forever lonely: A wistfulness is in our thought: Our lights are like the dawns which only ...
HE bent above: so still her breath What air she breathed he could not say, Whether in worlds of life ...
I COULD praise you once with beautiful words ere you came And entered my life with love in a wind ...
FROM the cool and dark-lipped furrows Breathes a dim delight Through the woodland's purple plumage To the diamond night. Aureoles ...
THERE were many burning hours on the heartsweet tide, And we passed away from ourselves, forgetting all The immortal moods ...
TWILIGHT, a timid fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast, Ceaseless pursuit and flight were in ...
FAINT grew the yellow buds of light Far flickering beyond the snows, As leaning o'er the shadowy white Morn glimmered ...
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