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 ...
Padraic Colum Poems on Wisdom & Knowledge (7 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Poor Scholar Of The ‘Forties (Padraic Colum Poems)
MY eyelids red and heavy arcWith bending o'er the smold'ring peat.I know the Aeneid now by heart,My Virgil read in ...
Dermott Donn MacMorna (Padraic Colum Poems)
ONE day you'll come to my husband's door,Dermoit Donn MacMorna,One day you'll come to Hugh's dark door,And the pain at ...
Snake (Padraic Colum Poems)
BUT, Snake, you must not come where we abide,For you would tempt us; we should hear you say:"Oh, somewhere was ...