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 ...
Padraic Colum Poems on Kings & Queens (13 Poems)
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 ...
Asses (Padraic Colum Poems)
"I KNOW where I'd getAn ass that would do,If I had the moneyA pound or two."Said a ragged manTo my ...
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 ...
Hawaiian (Padraic Colum Poems)
SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimesWith Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymesWith places bare upon Pacific ...
Queen Gormlai (Padraic Colum Poems)
NOT fingers that e'er feltFine things within their holdDrew needles in and through,And smoothed out the fold,And put the hodden ...
A Drover (Padraic Colum Poems)
To Meath of the pastures,From wet hills by the sea,Through Leitrim and LongfordGo my cattle and me.I hear in the ...
King Cahill’s Farewell To The Rye Field (Padraic Colum Poems)
WRITTEN TO THE LONDONDERRY AIR"Tira autumn sun your shadow's flung, my Cahill,Upon the field where now your reapmg's done,Lo, there! ...
Fuchsia Hedges In Connacht (Padraic Colum Poems)
I THINK some saint of Eirinn wandering farFound you and brought you here Demoiselles!For so I greet you in this ...
Wild Ass (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE Wild Ass lounges, legs struck outIn vagrom unconcern:The tombs o Achaemenian kingsAre for those hooves to spurn.And all of ...
In The Carolina Woods (Padraic Colum Poems)
HERE you should lie, ye Kings of eld,Barbarossa, Boabdil,And Czar Lazar and Charlemagne,Arthur, Gaelic Finn-Here where themuffling Spanish mossesForests with ...
Bison (Padraic Colum Poems)
How great a front is thineA lake of majesty!Assyria knew the signThe god-incarnate king!A lake of majestyThe lion's drowns in ...