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 Fire (15 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Odysseus: In Memory Of Arthur Griffith (Padraic Colum Poems)
You had the prose of logic and of scorn,And words to sledge an iron argument,And yet you could draw down ...
The Furrow And The Hearth (Padraic Colum Poems)
ISTRIDE the hill, Sower,Up to the sky ridge,Flinging the seed,Scattering, exultant!Mouthing great rhythmsTo the long sea-beatsOn the wide shore, behindThe ...
An Old Song Re-sung (Padraic Colum Poems)
As I went down through Dublin cityAt the hour of twelve of the night,Who did I see but a Spanish ...
The Poor Girl’s Meditation (Padraic Colum Poems)
I AM sitting hereSince the moon rose in the night,Kindling a fire,And striving to keep it alight;The folk of the ...
Interior (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE little moths are creepingAcross the cottage pane;On the floor the chickens gather,And they make talk and complain.And she sits ...
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 ...
Tulips (Padraic Colum Poems)
An age being mathematical, these flowersOf linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prizedBy men with wakened, speculative minds,And when with ...
Laburnums (Padraic Colum Poems)
OVER old walls the Laburnumshang cones of fire;Laburnums that grow out of oldmould in old gardens:Old maids and old men ...
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 ...
Branding The Foals (Padraic Colum Poems)
WHY do I look for fire to brand these foals?What do I need, when all within is fire?And lo, she ...