The Feast of Age (George William Russell Poems)
SEE where the light streams over Connla's fountain Starward aspire! The sacred sign upon the holy mountain Shines in white ...
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 ...
HOW often have I said, "We may not grieve for the immortal dead." And now, poor blenchèd heart, Thy ruddy ...
WHAT of all the will to do? It has vanished long ago, For a dream-shaft pierced it through From the ...
DUSK wraps the village in its dim caress; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft through miles ...
THE MIGHT that shaped itself through storm and stress In chaos, here is lulled in breathing sweet; Under the long ...
A MAN went forth one day at eve: The long day's toil for him was done: The eye that scanned ...
WHERE we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil ...
THIS mood hath known all beauty, for it sees O'erwhelmed majesties In these pale forms, and kingly crowns of gold ...
WHY does this sudden passion smite me? I stretch my hands, all blind to see: I need the lamp of ...
THIS is the hero-heart of the enchanted isle, Whom now the twilight children tenderly enfold, Pat with their pearly palms ...
WHILE the earth is dark and grey How I laugh within. I know In my breast what ardours gay From ...
DUSK its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies, Over twilight mountains where the heart songs rise, Rise and fall and ...
HOW came this pigmy rabble spun, After the gods and kings of old, Upon a tapestry begun With threads of ...
I THOUGHT, beloved, to have brought to you A gift of quietness and ease and peace, Cooling your brow as ...
NOW the quietude of earth Nestles deep my heart within; Friendships new and strange have birth Since I left the ...
THE WARMTH of life is quenched with bitter frost; Upon the lonely road a child limps by Skirting the frozen ...
AS from our dream we died away Far off I felt the outer things; Your wind-blown tresses round me play, ...
NOW the rooftree of the midnight spreading, Buds in citron, green, and blue: From afar its mystic odours shedding, Child, ...
NOT her own sorrow only that hath place Upon yon gentle face. Too slight have been her childhood's years to ...
THERE'S a cure for sorrow in the well at Ballylee Where the scarlet cressets hang over the trembling pool: And ...
I KNOW myself no more, my child, Since thou art come to me, Pity so tender and so wild Hath ...
AS flow the rivers to the sea Adown from rocky hill or plain, A thousand ages toiled for thee And ...
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