Book: Responsibilities

• A Coat

  I MADE my song a coat
  Covered with embroideries

  9 lines, 16 comments
• A Memory Of Youth

  THE moments passed as at a play;
  I had the wisdom love brings forth;

  29 lines
• To A Child Dancing In The Wind

  DANCE there upon the shore;
  What need have you to care

  12 lines
• An Appointment

  BEING out of heart with government
  I took a broken root to fling

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Responsibilities - Closing

  While I, that reed-throated whisperer
  Who comes at need, although not now as once

  14 lines
• Beggar To Beggar Cried

  "TIME to put off the world and go somewhere
  And find my health again in the sea air,'

  20 lines
• When Helen Lived

  WE have cried in our despair
  That men desert,

  12 lines
• Friends

  NOW must I these three praise --
  Three women that have wrought

  28 lines
• The Peacock

  What's riches to him
  That has made a great peacock

  11 lines
• Paudeen

  INDIGNANT at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
  Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind

  7 lines
• To A Shade

  IF you have revisited the town, thin Shade,
  Whether to look upon your monument

  26 lines
• Running To Paradise

  As I came over Windy Gap
  They threw a halfpenny into my cap.

  29 lines
• A Song From 'The Player Queen'

  My mother dandled me and sang,
  'How young it is, how young!'

  20 lines
• That The Night Come

  SHE lived in storm and strife,
  Her soul had such desire

  12 lines
• September 1913

  What need you, being come to sense,
  But fumble in a greasy till

  32 lines, 2 comments
• The Cold Heaven

  SUDDENLY I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
  That seemed as though ice burned and was but the

  15 lines
• The Three Hermits

  THREE old hermits took the air
  By a cold and desolate sea,

  32 lines, 1 comment
• The Dolls

  A DOLL in the doll-maker's house
  Looks at the cradle and bawls:

  20 lines, 1 comment
• To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing

  NOW all the truth is out,
  Be secret and take defeat

  16 lines, 2 comments
• The Hour Before Dawn

  A CURSING rogue with a merry face,
  A bundle of rags upon a crutch,

  124 lines
• Two Years Later

  HAS no one said those daring
  Kind eyes should be more learn'd?

  12 lines
• The Magi

  NOW as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
  In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones

  8 lines, 1 comment
• Fallen Majesty

  Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
  And even old men's eyes grew dim, this hand alone,

  8 lines
• The Mountain Tomb

  POUR wine and dance if manhood still have pride,
  Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom;

  12 lines
• On Those That Hated The 'Playboy Of The Western World,' 1907

  Once, when midnight smote the air,
  Eunuchs ran through Hell and met

  6 lines, 1 comment
• The Realists

  HOPE that you may understand!
  What can books of men that wive

  8 lines
• Responsibilities - Introduction

  Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
  Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end,

  22 lines
• The Witch

  TOIL and grow rich,
  What's that but to lie

  8 lines, 1 comment
• The Grey Rock

  Poets with whom I learned my trade.
  Companions of the Cheshire Cheese,

  132 lines
• The Three Beggars

  "Though to my feathers in the wet,
  I have stood here from break of day.

  68 lines
• To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were Proved the People Wanted Pictures

  You gave, but will not give again
  Until enough of paudeen's pence

  35 lines

• By me, right now

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