Poems

SCENE.--_The house of_ SHEMUS RUA. _There is an alcove at the back with curtains; in it a bed, and on the bed is the body of_ MARY _with candles round it_. _The two_ MERCHANTS _...

Fled foam underneath us, and around us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the saddle girth, covering away from our glances the tide; And those that fled, and that followed, f...

SCENE.--_A room with lighted fire, and a door into the open air, through which one sees, perhaps, the trees of a wood, and these trees should be painted in flat colour upon a go...

Sad to remember, sick with years, The swift innumerable spears, The horsemen with their floating hair, And bowls of barley, honey, and wine, And feet of maidens dancing in tune,...

SCENE.--_Hall in the house of_ COUNTESS CATHLEEN. _At the Left an oratory with steps leading up to it. At the Right a tapestried wall, more or less repeating the form of the ora...

Now, man of croziers, shadows called our names And then away, away, like whirling flames; And now fled by, mist-covered, without sound, The youth and lady and the deer and hound...

A man, they say, Loved Maeve the Queen of all the invisible host, And died of his love nine centuries ago. And now, when the moon's riding at the full, She leaves her dancers lo...

But doesn't a gold piece glitter like the sun? That's what my father, who'd seen better days, Told me when I was but a little boy-- So high--so high, it's shining like the sun,...