Children of Lir (George William Russell Poems)
WE woke from our sleep in the bosom where cradled together we lay: The love of the dark hidden Father ...
WE woke from our sleep in the bosom where cradled together we lay: The love of the dark hidden Father ...
WHERE the Greyhound River windeth through a loneliness so deep, Scarce a wild fowl shakes the quiet that the purple ...
OH, at the eagle's height To lie i' the sweet of the sun, While veil after veil takes flight And ...
I PITIED one whose tattered dress Was patched, and stained with dust and rain; He smiled on me; I could ...
I WILL not follow you, my bird, I will not follow you. I would not breathe a word, my bird, ...
FAR up the dim twilight fluttered Moth-wings of vapour and flame: The lights danced over the mountains, Star after star ...
NOT the soul that's whitest Wakens love the sweetest: When the heart is lightest Oft the charm is fleetest. While ...
WHAT domination of what darkness dies this hour, And through what new, rejoicing, winged, ethereal power O'erthrown, the cells opened, ...
WE have left our youth behind: Earth is in its baby years: Void of wisdom cries the wind, And the ...
DARK glowed the vales of amethyst Beneath an opal shroud: The moon bud opened through the mist Its white-fire leaves ...
AS one by one the veils took flight, The day withdrew, the stars came up. The spirit issued pale and ...
OH, the sudden wings arising from the ploughed fields brown Showered aloft in spray of song the wild-bird twitter floats ...
COULD you not in silence borrow Strength to go from us ungrieving? All these hours of loving sorrow Only make ...
OH, if my spirit may foretell Or earlier impart, It is because I always dwell With morning in my heart. ...
TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory: Gay are the hills with song: earth's faery children leave More ...
MOTHER, with whom our lives should be, Not hatred keeps our lives apart: Charmed by some lesser glow in thee, ...
ON me to rest, my bird, my bird: The swaying branches of my heart Are blown by every wind toward ...
I DID not deem it half so sweet To feel thy gentle hand, As in a dream thy soul to ...
NOT unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways: One timeless hour in time we caught from the long ...
WE air tired who follow after Phantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter Stain our hearts ...
HER mist of primroses within her breast Twilight hath folded up, and o'er the west, Seeking remoter valleys long hath ...
PURE at heart we wander now: Comrade on the quest divine, Turn not from the stars your brow That your ...
SHADOWY-PETALLED, like the lotus, loom the mountains with their snows: Through the sapphire Soma rising such a flood of glory ...
LOVE and pity are pleading with me this hour. What is this voice that stays me forbidding to yield, Offering ...
STILL rests the heavy share on the dark soil: Upon the black mould thick the dew-damp lies: The horse waits ...
WITH eyes all untroubled she laughs as she passes, Bending beneath the creel with the seaweed brown, Till evening with ...
THE LIGHTS shone down the street In the long blue close of day: A boy's heart beat sweet, sweet, As ...
DO you not feel the white glow in your breast, my bird? That is the flame of love I send ...
WHEN the dawn comes forth I wonder Will our sad, sad hearts awaken, And the grief we laboured under From ...
WHEN our glowing dreams were dead, Ruined our heroic piles, Something in your dark eyes said: "Think no more of ...
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