Padraic Colum Poems on Youth Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

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 ...

FIRST GIRLMALLO lero iss im bo nero!Go where they're threshing and find me my lover,Mallo lero iss im bo bairn!SECOND ...

A MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG(A Young Girl sings it)THE Lannan SheeWatched the young man BrianCross over the stile towards his father's ...

"I KNOW where I'd getAn ass that would do,If I had the moneyA pound or two."Said a ragged manTo my ...

First Old Man He threw his crutched stick down: there cameInto his face the anger flame,And he spoke viciously of ...

In The Farmer's HouseI'M glad to lie on a sack of leavesBy a wasted fire and take my ease.For the ...

AUTUMNA GOOD stay-at-home season is Autumn: then there'swork to be joined in by all:Though the fawns, where the brackens make ...

IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet,Nor my wake house a silent place :For who would keep back ...

THE stir of children with fresh dresses on,And men who meet and say unguarded words,And women from the coopsOf drudgeries ...

THEN, suddenly, I was aware indeedOf what he said, and was revolving it:How, in the night, crows often take to ...

MY eyelids red and heavy arcWith bending o'er the smold'ring peat.I know the Aeneid now by heart,My Virgil read in ...

THERE is an hour, they say,On which your dream has power:Then all you wish for comes,As comes the lost field-birdDown ...

OTHERS have divers paints and enamels,Lavish and bright on breast and wing feathers:You, Guatemalan, have sunken all coloursInto glory of ...

I AM a young girl;I live here alone:I write long lettersBut there is no oneFor me to send them to. ...

Padraic Colum Poems on Youth (14 Poems)