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 Mind (19 Poems)
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 ...
Girls Spinning (Padraic Colum Poems)
FIRST GIRLMALLO lero iss im bo nero!Go where they're threshing and find me my lover,Mallo lero iss im bo bairn!SECOND ...
Spinning Songs (Padraic Colum Poems)
A MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG(A Young Girl sings it)THE Lannan SheeWatched the young man BrianCross over the stile towards his father's ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Wayfarer (Padraic Colum Poems)
I. THE TREESTHERE is no glory of the sunset here!Heavy the clouds upon the darkening road,And heavy, too, the wind ...
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 ...
Sojourning and Wandering (Padraic Colum Poems)
AUTUMNA GOOD stay-at-home season is Autumn: then there'swork to be joined in by all:Though the fawns, where the brackens make ...
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 ...
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, ...
Jackdaw (Padraic Colum Poems)
ALOOF from his tribeOn the elm-tree's top,A jackdaw perchedA hand-reach up.Silent he satOn the branch, nor stirred,And I saw m ...
Condors (Padraic Colum Poems)
I. CONDORS FLYINGWE watched the Condors winging towards the Moon,A Moon that glimmered in the blue daylight;Around us were the ...
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 ...
She Moved Through the Faire (Padraic Colum Poems)
My young love said to me: My mother won't mind,And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind.She ...
Plovers (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE Plovers fly and cry around,Unguided, nestless, without bourn,Wandering and impetuous,Turning and flying to return.These wild birds seen on Ireland's ...
Swallow (Padraic Colum Poems)
HE knows Queen Lab, her isle,And black, enormous Kaf,The Swallow, and "Allah"He criesAs into Giaour landsWith Dervish faith and rite,Hueless, ...