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The Arrow
2023-12-06I thought of your beauty, and this arrow, Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow. There‘s no man may look upon her, no man, As when newly g...
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Old Memory
2023-12-06O thought, fly to her when the end of day Awakens an old memory, and say, ‘Your strength, that is so lofty and fierce and kind, It might call up...
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Never give all the Heart
2023-12-06Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out f...
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Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland
2023-12-06The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand, Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand; Our courage breaks like an ol...
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The Old Men Admiring themselves in the Water
2023-12-06I heard the old, old men say, ‘Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.‘ They had hands like claws, and their knees Were twisted li...
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Under the Moon
2023-12-06I have no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde, Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle, Where one found Lancelot crazed and hid him for a w...
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The Ragged Wood
2023-12-06O hurry where by water among the trees The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh, When they have but looked upon their images— Would none had...
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O do not Love too Long
2023-12-06Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. All through the years of our youth Neither co...
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The Happy Townland
2023-12-06There‘s many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two, If he could see the townland That we are riding to; Boughs have their fruit and blo...
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To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
2023-12-06Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways: Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide; The Druid, grey, ...