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The Madness of King Goll
2023-12-06I 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...
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The Stolen Child
2023-12-06Where 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...
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To an Isle in the Water
2023-12-06Shy 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...
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Down by the Salley Gardens
2023-12-06Down 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...
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The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
2023-12-06You 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...
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The Ballad of Father O'Hart
2023-12-06Good 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;...
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The Ballad of Moll Magee
2023-12-06Come 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...
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The Ballad of the Foxhunter
2023-12-06‘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...
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His Dream
2023-12-06I 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...
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A Woman Homer Sung
2023-12-06If 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...