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 Night (14 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
The Furrow And The Hearth (Padraic Colum Poems)
ISTRIDE the hill, Sower,Up to the sky ridge,Flinging the seed,Scattering, exultant!Mouthing great rhythmsTo the long sea-beatsOn the wide shore, behindThe ...
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 ...
The Poor Girl’s Meditation (Padraic Colum Poems)
I AM sitting hereSince the moon rose in the night,Kindling a fire,And striving to keep it alight;The folk of the ...
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 ...
Imitation of a Welsh Poem (Padraic Colum Poems)
AND that was when the chevaldourThrough the whole of nightSang, for the moon of mid-JulyMade the hillside bright.Morfydd to David ...
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 ...
Old Soldier (Padraic Colum Poems)
WE wander now who marched before,Hawking our bran from door to door,While other men from the mill take their flour:So ...
No Child (Padraic Colum Poems)
I HEARD in the night the pigeonsStirring within their nest:The wild pigeons' stir was tender,Like a child's hand at the ...