Book: In the Seven Woods

• Adam's Curse

  WE sat together at one summer's end,
  That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,

  39 lines, 2 comments
• Do Not Love Too Long

  SWEETHEART, do not love too long:
  I loved long and long,

  11 lines, 2 comments
• The Happy Townland

  THERE'S many a strong farmer
  Whose heart would break in two,

  60 lines
• The Ragged Wood

  O HURRY where by water among the trees
  The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh,

  13 lines
• In The Seven Woods

  I HAVE heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
  Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees

  14 lines
• The Folly Of Being Comforted

  And little shadows come about her eyes;
  Time can but make it easier to be wise

  15 lines
• Never Give All The Heart

  NEVER give all the heart, for love
  Will hardly seem worth thinking of

  14 lines, 4 comments
• Under The Moon

  I HAVE no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde,
  Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle,

  20 lines
• Old Memory

  O THOUGHT, fly to her when the end of day
  Awakens an old memory, and say,

  12 lines
• The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water

  I HEARD the old, old men say,
  "Everything alters,

  9 lines, 5 comments
• Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland

  THE old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand,
  Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand;

  15 lines, 1 comment
• The Withering Of The Boughs

  I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds:
  'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will,

  25 lines, 2 comments
• The Arrow

  I THOUGHT of your beauty, and this arrow,
  Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.

  8 lines, 1 comment
• The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves

  Three Voices [together]. Hurry to bless the hands that play,
  The mouths that speak, the notes and strings,

  20 lines

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