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 World (13 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Humming-Bird (Padraic Colum Poems)
UP from the navel of the world,Where Cuzco has her founts of fire,The passer of the Gulf he comes.He lives ...
Bison (Padraic Colum Poems)
How great a front is thineA lake of majesty!Assyria knew the signThe god-incarnate king!A lake of majestyThe lion's drowns in ...