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Padraic Colum's Poetry, by first line

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  • A Cradle Song
    O men from the fields,
    Come gently within.
    17 lines, 2 comments
  • She Moved Through the Faire
    My young love said to me: My mother won't mind,
    And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind.
    12 lines
  • Polonius and the Ballad Singers
    A gaunt built woman and her son-in-law—
    A broad-faced fellow, with such flesh as shows
    101 lines
  • A Drover
    To Meath of the pastures,
    From wet hills by the sea,
    36 lines, 2 comments
  • The Plougher
    Sunset and silence! A man: around him earth savage, earth broken;
    Beside him two horses -- a plough!
    22 lines
  • Old Men Complaining
    First Old Man
    HE threw his crutched stick down: there came
    77 lines
  • Tulips
    An age being mathematical, these flowers
    Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prized
    18 lines
  • Monkeys
    Two little creatures
    with faces the size of
    36 lines
  • A Seer
    "BELOW there are white-faced throngs,
    Their march is a tide coming Higher;
    16 lines
  • Asses
    "I KNOW where I'd get
    An ass that would do,
    135 lines
  • Before The Fair
    "Lost," "lost," the beeves and the bullocks,
    The cattle men sell and buy,
    23 lines
  • The Poet
    "THE blackbird's in the briar,
    The seagull's on the ground-
    38 lines
  • In Memory Of John Butler Yeats
    "TO-NIGHT," you said, "to-night, all Ireland round
    The curlews call." The dinner-talk went on,
    10 lines
  • The Tin-Whistle Player
    'Tis long since, long since, since I heard
    A tin-whistle played,
    25 lines
  • An Drinaun Donn
    A HUNDRED men think I am theirs when with them I
    drink ale,
    29 lines
  • Spinning Songs
    A MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG
    (A Young Girl sings it)
    110 lines
  • Swift's Pastoral
    A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.
    Characters:
    193 lines
  • At Cashel
    ABOVE me stand, worn from their ancient use,
    The King's, the Bishop's, and the Warrior's house,
    16 lines
  • Jackdaw
    ALOOF from his tribe
    On the elm-tree's top,
    53 lines
  • Imitation of a Welsh Poem
    AND that was when the chevaldour
    Through the whole of night
    18 lines
  • The Rune-Master
    ARCH-SCHOLAR they'll call you,
    Kuno Mayer,
    59 lines
  • An Old Song Re-sung
    As I went down through Dublin city
    At the hour of twelve of the night,
    38 lines
  • Sojourning and Wandering
    AUTUMN
    A GOOD stay-at-home season is Autumn: then there's
    31 lines
  • Snake
    BUT, Snake, you must not come where we abide,
    For you would tempt us; we should hear you say:
    19 lines
  • Men On Islands
    CAN it be that never more
    Men will grow on Islands?
    12 lines
  • A Mountaineer
    ERE Beowulf's song
    Was heard from the ships,
    18 lines
  • Girls Spinning
    FIRST GIRL
    MALLO lero iss im bo nero!
    127 lines
  • Garadh
    FOR the poor body that I own
    I could weep many a tear:
    18 lines
  • Vultures
    FOUL-FEATHERED and scald-necked,
    They sit in evil state;
    13 lines
  • Achill Girl's Song
    FROM THE IRISH
    I’d bring you these for dowry
    20 lines
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