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  • A Crazed Girl
    THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
    Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
    14 lines, 7 comments
  • A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety
    COME swish around, my pretty punk,
    And keep me dancing still
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Wild Old Wicked Man
    Because I am mad about women
    I am mad about the hills,'
    68 lines, 1 comment
  • An Acre Of Grass
    PICTURE and book remain,
    An acre of green grass
    24 lines
  • The Lady's Third Song
    WHEN you and my true lover meet
    And he plays tunes between your feet.
    12 lines
  • Are You Content?
    I CALL on those that call me son,
    Grandson, or great-grandson,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Great Day
    HURRAH for revolution and more cannon-shot!
    A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Beautiful Lofty Things
    BEAUTIFUL lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;
    My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd:
    12 lines
  • The Three Bushes
    SAID lady once to lover,
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    77 lines
  • The Chambermaid's First Song
    HOW came this ranger
    Now sunk in rest,
    10 lines
  • The Spirit Medium
    POETRY, music, I have loved, and yet
    Because of those new dead
    18 lines
  • Colonel Martin
    THE Colonel went out sailing,
    He spoke with Turk and Jew,
    75 lines
  • The Lady's First Song
    I TURN round
    Like a dumb beast in a show.
    12 lines
  • The Curse Of Cromwell
    YOU ask what -- I have found, and far and wide I go:
    Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's mur-
    42 lines
  • The Pilgrim
    I FASTED for some forty days on bread and buttermilk,
    For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,
    37 lines
  • To Dorothy Wellesley
    STRETCH towards the moonless midnight of the trees,
    As though that hand could reach to where they stand,
    18 lines
  • What Then?
    HIS chosen comrades thought at school
    He must grow a famous man;
    20 lines
  • Imitated From The Japanese
    A MOST astonishing thing --
    Seventy years have I lived;
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • The Ghost Of Roger Casement
    O WHAT has made that sudden noise?
    What on the threshold stands?
    40 lines, 4 comments
  • Lapis Lazuli
    I have heard that hysterical women say
    57 lines, 1 comment
  • Sweet Dancer
    THE girl goes dancing there
    On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • A Model For The Laureate
    ON thrones from China to Peru
    All sorts of kings have sat
    24 lines
  • The Gyres
    THE GYRES! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth;
    Things thought too long can be no longer thought,
    24 lines
  • The Municipal Gallery Revisited
    AROUND me the images of thirty years:
    An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side;
    58 lines
  • The Lady's Second Song
    WHAT sort of man is coming
    To lie between your feet?
    21 lines
  • The O'Rahilly
    SING of the O'Rahilly,
    Do not deny his right;
    37 lines
  • The Lover's Song
    BIRD sighs for the air,
    Thought for I know not where,
    6 lines
  • The Old Stone Cross
    A statesman is an easy man,
    He tells his lies by rote;
    22 lines, 3 comments
  • The Spur
    YOU think it horrible that lust and rage
    Should dance attention upon my old age;
    4 lines
  • Parnell
    PARNELL came down the road, he said to a cheering man:
    "Ireland shall get her freedom and you still break stone.
    3 lines
  • Those Images
    WHAT if I bade you leave
    The cavern of the mind?
    16 lines
  • Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
    COME gather round me, Parnellites,
    And praise our chosen man;
    32 lines
  • What Was Lost
    I SING what was lost and dread what was won,
    I walk in a battle fought over again,
    5 lines
  • Roger Casement
    I SAY that Roger Casement
    Did what he had to do.
    24 lines
  • The Chambermaid's Second Song
    From pleasure of the bed,
    Dull as a worm,
    6 lines, 2 comments
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