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Joseph Campbell

I lived from 1881-1944. I was from Ireland.

My poetry

  • As a white candle
    In a holy place,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • I am the mountainy singer—
    The voice of the peasant's dream,
    28 lines
  • The little fires that Nature lights --
    The scilla's lamp, the daffodil --
    12 lines
  • SLEEP, gray brother of death, 
    Has touched me, 
    45 lines
  • O TO be blind! 
    To know the darkness that I know. 
    28 lines
  • In the youth of summer 
    The hills of Cualann 
    10 lines
  • Earth travails,
    Like a woman come to her time.
    48 lines

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