I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumul...
Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water-rats; There we‘v...
Shy one, shy one, Shy one of my heart, She moves in the firelight Pensively apart. She carries in the dishes, And lays them in a row. To an isle in th...
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow- white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leave...
You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play, Though you glow and you glance, though you purr and you dart; In the Junes that were war...
Good Father John O‘Hart In penal days rode out To a shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe and trout. In trust took he John‘s lands;...
Come round me, little childer; There, don‘t fling stones at me Because I mutter as I go; But pity Moll Magee. My man was a poor fisher With shor...
‘Lay me in a cushioned chair; Carry me, ye four, With cushions here and cushions there, To see the world once more. ‘To stable and to kenn...
I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt-end of a steering-oar, And saw wherever I could turn A crowd upon a shore. And though I would have hushed the c...
If any man drew near When I was young, I thought, ‘He holds her dear,’ And shook with hate and fear. But O! ‘twas bitter wrong If he...