#Irish #NobelPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury
ON the grey rock of Cashel the mind’s e… Has called up the cold spirits that are… When the old moon is vanished from the s… And the new still hides her horn. Under blank eyes and fingers never still
TOIL and grow rich, What’s that but to lie With a foul witch And after, drained dry, To be brought
When Loie Fuller’s Chinese dancers enw… A shining web, a floating ribbon of clot… It seemed that a dragon of air Had fallen among dancers, had whirled th… Or hurried them off on its own furious p…
Do you not hear me calling, white deer w… I have been changed to a hound with one… I have been in the Path of Stones and t… For somebody hid hatred and hope and des… Under my feet that they follow you night…
#1899 #TheWindAmongTheReeds
Ribb at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn BECAUSE you have found me in the pitc… With open book you ask me what I do. Mark and digest my tale, carry it afar To those that never saw this tonsured he…
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your fee…
THE old brown thorn-trees break in two… Under a bitter black wind that blows fro… Our courage breaks like an old tree in a… But we have hidden in our hearts the fla… Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.
O curlew, cry no more in the air, Or only to the water in the West; Because your crying brings to my mind passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair That was shaken out over my breast:
THAT civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost, Quiet the dog, tether the pony To a distant post; Our master Caesar is in the tent
III Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripp… Peleus on Thetis stares. Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid, Love has blinded him with tears;
MY dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother Can know it as I know,
NOW as at all times I can see in the m… In their stiff, painted clothes, the pal… Appear and disappear in the blue depth o… With all their ancient faces like rain-b… And all their helms of silver hovering s…
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all… Come near me, while I sing the ancient… Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide; The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-e… Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin…
All things can tempt me from this craft… One time it was a woman’s face, or worse… The seeming needs of my fool-driven land… Now nothing but comes readier to the han… Than this accustomed toil. When I was y…
#1910 #TheGreenHelmetAndOtherPoems
A sudden blow: the great wings beating s… Above the staggering girl, her thighs ca… By the dark webs, her nape caught in his… He holds her helpless breast upon his br… How can those terrified vague fingers pu…
#1928 #Sonnet #TheTower