Book: The Green Helmet and Other Poems

• A Friend's Illness

  SICKNESS brought me this
  Thought, in that scale of his:

  7 lines
• A Woman Homer Sung

  IF any man drew near
  When I was young,

  21 lines
• A Drinking Song

  Wine comes in at the mouth
  And love comes in at the eye;

  5 lines, 2 comments
• Against Unworthy Praise

  O HEART, be at peace, because
  Nor knave nor dolt can break

  20 lines, 1 comment
• The Mask

  "PUT off that mask of burning gold
  With emerald eyes."

  15 lines
• All Things Can Tempt Me

  ALL things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
  One time it was a woman's face, or worse --

  10 lines, 1 comment
• Reconciliation

  SOME may have blamed you that you took away
  The verses that could move them on the day

  12 lines
• At Galway Races

  THERE where the course is,
  Delight makes all of the one mind,

  16 lines
• Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation

  HOW should the world be luckier if this house,
  Where passion and precision have been one

  12 lines
• At The Abbey Theatre

  DEAR Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case.
  When we are high and airy hundreds say

  14 lines
• On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature

  Where, where but here have pride and Truth,
  That long to give themselves for wage,

  3 lines
• Brown Penny

  I WHISPERED, "I am too young,"
  And then, "I am old enough";

  16 lines, 3 comments
• The Fascination Of What's Difficult

  THE fascination of what's difficult
  Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent

  13 lines
• The Coming Of Wisdom With Time

  THOUGH leaves are many, the root is one;
  Through all the lying days of my youth

  4 lines, 1 comment
• These Are The Clouds

  THESE are the clouds about the fallen sun,
  The majesty that shuts his burning eye:

  12 lines
• King And No King

  WOULD it were anything but merely voice!'
  The No King cried who after that was King,

  17 lines
• Words

  I HAD this thought a while ago,
  "My darling cannot understand

  16 lines, 1 comment
• No Second Troy

  WHY should I blame her that she filled my days
  With misery, or that she would of late

  12 lines, 3 comments
• His Dream

  I swayed upon the gaudy stem
  The butt-end of a steering-oar,

  20 lines
• Peace

  AH, that Time could touch a form
  That could show what Homer's age

  11 lines
• To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine

  You say, as I have often given tongue
  In praise of what another's said or sung,

  4 lines, 1 comment

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