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 Nature (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 ...
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 ...
Hawaii (Padraic Colum Poems)
NOT in a grove where each tree loses its presence, not singly, do Lehua trees grow; they are Lehua trees ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hawaiian (Padraic Colum Poems)
SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimesWith Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymesWith places bare upon Pacific ...
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 ...
Dedication: To M. C. M. C. (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE well-They come to it and takeTheir cupful or their palmful out of it.The well-Stones are around it, and an ...
Song Of Starlings (Padraic Colum Poems)
WE'VE watched the starlings flocking past the statuesThat we have often seen in other citiesHope, Justice, Commerce and have heard ...
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 ...