The Miracle Of The Corn (Padraic Colum Poems)
People in the LegendFARDORROUGHA A FarmerPAUDEEN Fardorroughas Servant: a FoolSHEILA Fardorroughas WifeAISLINN A ChildTHREE WOMENSHAUN o' THE BOG A Poor ...
Padraic Colum Poems on Birds (20 Poems)
Reminiscence (Padraic Colum Poems)
IThe Swallows sangALIEN to us areYour fields, and your cotes, and your glebes;Secret our nests areAlthough they be built in ...
The Ballad Of Downal Baun (Padraic Colum Poems)
The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:Silently rocking and rocking,The moon-cradle out in the sky.The ...
Hawaii (Padraic Colum Poems)
NOT in a grove where each tree loses its presence, not singly, do Lehua trees grow; they are Lehua trees ...
Verses For Alfeo Faggi’s Stations Of The Cross (Padraic Colum Poems)
IHERE Pilate's Court is:None may clatter nor callWhere the Wolf giving suckTo the Twins glares on all"Strip Him and scourge ...
Polonius and the Ballad Singers (Padraic Colum Poems)
A gaunt built woman and her son-in-law-A broad-faced fellow, with such flesh as showsNothing but easy nature-and his wife,The woman's ...
Dublin Roads (Padraic Colum Poems)
WHEN you were a lad that lacked a trade,Oh, many's the thing you'd see on the wayFrom Kill-o'-the-Grange to Ballybrack,And ...
The Burial of Saint Brendan (Padraic Colum Poems)
ON the third day from this (Saint Brendan said)I will be where no wind that filled a sailHas ever been, ...
Old Men Complaining (Padraic Colum Poems)
First Old Man He threw his crutched stick down: there cameInto his face the anger flame,And he spoke viciously of ...
The Bird of Jesus (Padraic Colum Poems)
IT was pure indeed,The air we breathed in, the light we saw,I and my brother, when we played that day,Or ...
Pigeons (Padraic Colum Poems)
ODALISQUES, odalisques,Treading the pavementWith feet pomegranate-stained:We bartered for, bought youBack in the yearsAh, then we knew you,Odalisques, odalisques,Treading the pavementWith ...
The Landing (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE great ship lantern-girdled.The tender standing by;The waning stars cloud-shrouded,The land that we descry!That pale land is our homeland,And we ...
The Poet (Padraic Colum Poems)
"THE blackbird's in the briar,The seagull's on the ground-They are nests, and they're more than nests," he said,"They are tokens ...
Jackdaw (Padraic Colum Poems)
ALOOF from his tribeOn the elm-tree's top,A jackdaw perchedA hand-reach up.Silent he satOn the branch, nor stirred,And I saw m ...
David Ap Gwillam At The Mass Of The Birds (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE Thrush, the Lark, and, chief, the Nightingale,With one small bird whose name I do not ken,Offered a Mass; the ...
Snake (Padraic Colum Poems)
BUT, Snake, you must not come where we abide,For you would tempt us; we should hear you say:"Oh, somewhere was ...
Night-Fliers (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE birds that soar break spaceLike heavy bodies hurled!Not so the birds of nightThey move as in a sphereOn which ...
In Memory Of John Butler Yeats (Padraic Colum Poems)
"TO-NIGHT," you said, "to-night, all Ireland roundThe curlews call." The dinner-talk went on,And I knew what you heard and what ...
Macaws (Padraic Colum Poems)
GREEN wings and yellow breasts on birds that stareThat turn their heads and stare,And a red streamer tail!They come from ...
Humming-Bird (Padraic Colum Poems)
UP from the navel of the world,Where Cuzco has her founts of fire,The passer of the Gulf he comes.He lives ...