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 Man (25 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 ...
Swift’s Pastoral (Padraic Colum Poems)
A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.Characters:JONATHAN SWIFT and ESTHER VANHOMRIGHESTHERI know the answer: 'tis ingenious.I'm tired ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Crane (Padraic Colum Poems)
I KNOW you, Crane:I, too, have waited,Waited until my heartMelted to little pools around my feet!Comer in the morning ere ...
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 ...
I Shall not Die for Thee (Padraic Colum Poems)
O woman, shapely as the swan,On your account I shall not die:The men you've slain — a trivial clan —Were ...
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 Knitters (Padraic Colum Poems)
IN companies or loneThey bend their heads, their handsThey busy with their gear,Accomplishing the stitchThat turns the stocking-heel,Or closes up ...
Hawaiian (Padraic Colum Poems)
SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimesWith Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymesWith places bare upon Pacific ...
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 ...
The Rune-Master (Padraic Colum Poems)
ARCH-SCHOLAR they'll call you,Kuno Mayer,Who know the wordBehind the wordThe men of learning . . .But who will tell themOf ...
An Drinaun Donn (Padraic Colum Poems)
A HUNDRED men think I am theirs when with them Idrink ale,But their presence fades away from me and their ...
A Saint (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE stir of children with fresh dresses on,And men who meet and say unguarded words,And women from the coopsOf drudgeries ...
The Plougher (Padraic Colum Poems)
Sunset and silence! A man: around him earth savage, earth broken;Beside him two horses — a plough!Earth savage, earth broken, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Terrible Robber Men (Padraic Colum Poems)
OH I wish the sun was bright in the sky,And the fox was back in his den O!For always I'm ...
Vultures (Padraic Colum Poems)
FOUL-FEATHERED and scald-necked,They sit in evil state;Raw marks upon their breastsAs on men's wearing chains.Impure, though they may plungeInto the ...