Epigram (George William Russell Poems)
OH, be not led away, Lured by the colour of the sun-rich day. The gay romance of song Unto the ...
OH, be not led away, Lured by the colour of the sun-rich day. The gay romance of song Unto the ...
THOUGH your eyes with tears were blind, Pain upon the path you trod: Well we knew, the hosts behind, Voice ...
I HAVE wept a million tears: Pure and proud one, where are thine, What the gain though all thy years ...
ERE I lose myself in the vastness and drowse myself with the peace, While I gaze on the light and ...
I SAID my pleasure shall not move; It is not fixed in things apart: Seeking not love-but yet to love- ...
I WHO had sought afar from earth The faery land to meet, Now find content within its girth And wonder ...
THEY tell me that the earth is still the same Although the Red Branch now is but a name, That ...
THEY call us aliens, we are told, Because our wayward visions stray From that dim banner they unfold, The dreams ...
THEY bathed in the fire-flooded fountains: Life girdled them round and about: They slept in the clefts of the mountains: ...
WE are desert leagues apart; Time is misty ages now Since the warmth of heart to heart Chased the shadows ...
IT'S a lonely road through bogland to the lake at Carrowmore, And a sleeper there lies dreaming where the water ...
HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose; The spirit woke anew in nightly birth Unto the vastness where forever glows ...
STILL as the holy of holies breathes the vast, Within its crystal depths the stars grow dim; Fire on the ...
WELL, when all is said and done Best within my narrow way, May some angel of the sun Muse memorial ...
DOES the earth grow grey with grief For her hero darling fled? Though her vales let fall no leaf, In ...
POOR little child, my pretty boy, Why did the hunter mark thee out? Wert thou betrayed by thine own joy? ...
THOUGH now thou hast failed and art fallen, despair not because of defeat, Though lost for a while be thy ...
DARK head by the fireside brooding, Where upon your ears Whirlwinds of the earth intruding Sound in wrath and tears: ...
IN summer time, with high imaginings Of proud Crusaders and of Paynim kings, The children crowned themselves with famous names, ...
THE SEA was hoary, hoary, Beating on rock and cave: The winds were white and weeping With foam dust of ...
THROUGH the blue shadowy valley I hastened in a dream: Flower rich the night, flower soft the air, a blue ...
THE GREY road whereupon we trod became as holy ground: The eve was all one voice that breathed its message ...
THE CHILDREN were shouting together And racing along the sands, A glimmer of dancing shadows, A dovelike flutter of hands. ...
THOSE delicate wanderers, The wind, the star, the cloud, Ever before mine eyes, As to an altar bowed, Light and ...
ITS edges foamed with amethyst and rose, Withers once more the old blue flower of day: There where the ether ...
BY many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led: But as I went through ...
YOU and I have found the secret way, None can bar our love or say us nay: All the world ...
WHEN mine hour is come Let no teardrop fall And no darkness hover Round me where I lie. Let the ...
THE SKIES from black to pearly grey Had veered without a star or sun; Only a burning opal ray Fell ...
THE TWILIGHT fleeted away in pearl on the stream, And night, like a diamond done, stood still in our dream. ...
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