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 Woman (14 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Breffne Caoinc (Padraic Colum Poems)
NOT as a woman of the English weeping over a lord of theEnglishDo I weep-A cry that scarcely stirs the ...