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 t...
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young And weep because I know all things now: I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung The Pilot Star and the ...
TO SOAR IN FREEDOM AND IN FULLNESS OF POWER I HAVE not so much emulated the birds that musically sing, I have abandon'd myself to flights, broad c...
THEN SHALL PERCEIVE IN softness, languor, bloom, and growth, Thine eyes, ears, all thy sense - thy loftiest attribute - all that takes cognizance of b...
THE FEW DROPS KNOWN OF heroes, history, grand events, premises, myths, poems, The few drops known must stand for oceans of the unknown, On this beauti...
ONE THOUGHT EVER AT THE FORE ONE thought ever at the fore - That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe tog...
WHILE BEHIND ALL FIRM AND ERECT WHILE behind all, firm and erect as ever, Undismay'd amid the rapids - amid the irresistible and deadly urge, Stan...
A KISS TO THE BRIDE Marriage of Nelly Grant, May 21, 1874 SACRED, blithesome, undenied, With benisons from East and West, And salutations North and So...
NAY, TELL ME NOT TO-DAY THE PUBLISH'D SHAME Winter of 1873, Congress in Session NAY, tell me not to-day the publish'd shame, Read not to-day t...
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney, Folk dance like a wave of the sea; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet, My brother in Mocharabuiee. I passed my broth...