#Irish #NobelPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1933 #TheWindingStairAndOtherPoems
Bring me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call down curses on his head Because of my dear Jack that’s dead.
I HAD this thought a while ago, ‘My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land.’ And I grew weary of the sun
BECAUSE we love bare hills and stunte… And were the last to choose the settled… Its boredom of the desk or of the spade,… So many years companioned by a hound, Our voices carry; and though slumber-bou…
I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And lay the heart upon her hand And bear that beating heart away;
#1928 #TheTower
Her Courtesy WITH the old kindness, the old disting… She lies, her lovely piteous head amid d… Propped upon pillows, rouge on the pallo… She would not have us sad because she is…
Hic. ON the grey sand beside the shallo… Under your old wind-beaten tower, where… A lamp burns on beside the open book That Michael Robartes left, you walk in… And though you have passed the best of l…
I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blo… Till the seed of the fire flicker and gl… And then I must scrub and bake and swee… Till stars are beginning to blink and pe… And the young lie long and dream in thei…
#1899 #TheWindAmongTheReeds
HURRAH for revolution and more cannon… A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar… Hurrah for revolution and cannon come ag… The beggars have changed places, but the…
Once, when midnight smote the air, Eunuchs ran through Hell and met From thoroughfare to thoroughfare, While that great Juan galloped by; And like these to rail and sweat
HANDS, do what you’re bid; Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
Old fathers, great-grandfathers, Rise as kindred should. If ever lover’s loneliness Came where you stood, Pray that Heaven protect us
BEAUTIFUL lofty things: O’Leary’s… My father upon the Abbey stage, before… ‘This Land of Saints,’ and then as the… 'Of plaster Saints’; his beautiful misc… Standish O’Grady supporting himself bet…
SHE might, so noble from head To great shapely knees, The long flowing line, Have walked to the altar Through the holy images
WHAT’S riches to him That has made a great peacock With the pride of his eye? The wind-beaten, stone-grey, And desolate Three Rock
Through intricate motions ran Stream and gliding sun And all my heart seemed gay: Some stupid thing that I had done Made my attention stray.
#1933 #TheWindingStairAndOtherPoems