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 Light (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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Crows (Padraic Colum Poems)
THEN, suddenly, I was aware indeedOf what he said, and was revolving it:How, in the night, crows often take to ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Beggar’s Child (Padraic Colum Poems)
MAVOURNEEN, we'll go far awayFrom the net of the crooked townWhere they grudge us the light of the day.Around my ...