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 Faces (13 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 ...
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 ...
What The Shutter Said As She Lay By The Fire (Padraic Colum Poems)
In The Farmer's HouseI'M glad to lie on a sack of leavesBy a wasted fire and take my ease.For the ...
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 Toy-Maker (Padraic Colum Poems)
I AM the Toy-maker; I have brought from the townAs much in my plack as should fetch a whole crown,I'll ...
A Connachtman (Padraic Colum Poems)
IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet,Nor my wake house a silent place :For who would keep back ...
Kalmuck Bride (Padraic Colum Poems)
I HAVE saddled your white steed, and I have burnished them-Your belt with crystal clasps, your lance, your scimitar,Your carbine ...
Monkeys (Padraic Colum Poems)
Two little creatureswith faces the size ofa pair of penniesare clasping each other"Ah do not leave me"One says to the ...
Roger Casement (Padraic Colum Poems)
THEY have hanged Roger Casement to the tollingof a bell,Ochone, och, ochone, ochone!And their Smiths, and their Murrays, and their ...
In Memory Of Thomas Hughes Kelly (Padraic Colum Poems)
I DREAMT my friend had come into the roomWhere I had chided him for tasks delayed,And this in answer to ...
The Tin-Whistle Player (Padraic Colum Poems)
'Tis long since, long since, since I heardA tin-whistle played,And heard the tunes, the ha'penny tunesThat nobody made!The tunes that ...