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 (96 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 ...
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 ...
Hawaii (Padraic Colum Poems)
NOT in a grove where each tree loses its presence, not singly, do Lehua trees grow; they are Lehua trees ...
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 ...
Girls Spinning (Padraic Colum Poems)
FIRST GIRLMALLO lero iss im bo nero!Go where they're threshing and find me my lover,Mallo lero iss im bo bairn!SECOND ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Bird of Jesus (Padraic Colum Poems)
IT was pure indeed,The air we breathed in, the light we saw,I and my brother, when we played that day,Or ...
Pigeons (Padraic Colum Poems)
ODALISQUES, odalisques,Treading the pavementWith feet pomegranate-stained:We bartered for, bought youBack in the yearsAh, then we knew you,Odalisques, odalisques,Treading the pavementWith ...
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 ...
What The Shutter Said As She Lay By The Fire (Padraic Colum Poems)
In The Farmer's HouseI'M glad to lie on a sack of leavesBy a wasted fire and take my ease.For the ...
The Landing (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE great ship lantern-girdled.The tender standing by;The waning stars cloud-shrouded,The land that we descry!That pale land is our homeland,And we ...
Odysseus: In Memory Of Arthur Griffith (Padraic Colum Poems)
You had the prose of logic and of scorn,And words to sledge an iron argument,And yet you could draw down ...
The Wayfarer (Padraic Colum Poems)
I. THE TREESTHERE is no glory of the sunset here!Heavy the clouds upon the darkening road,And heavy, too, the wind ...
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 ...
The Knitters (Padraic Colum Poems)
IN companies or loneThey bend their heads, their handsThey busy with their gear,Accomplishing the stitchThat turns the stocking-heel,Or closes up ...
The Toy-Maker (Padraic Colum Poems)
I AM the Toy-maker; I have brought from the townAs much in my plack as should fetch a whole crown,I'll ...
Sojourning and Wandering (Padraic Colum Poems)
AUTUMNA GOOD stay-at-home season is Autumn: then there'swork to be joined in by all:Though the fawns, where the brackens make ...
Hawaiian (Padraic Colum Poems)
SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimesWith Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymesWith places bare upon Pacific ...
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 ...
The Rune-Master (Padraic Colum Poems)
ARCH-SCHOLAR they'll call you,Kuno Mayer,Who know the wordBehind the wordThe men of learning . . .But who will tell themOf ...
An Drinaun Donn (Padraic Colum Poems)
A HUNDRED men think I am theirs when with them Idrink ale,But their presence fades away from me and their ...