Padraic Colum's Poetry, by popularity

• The Dead Player: In Memory Of Dudley Digges

  THE candles lighted and the figure prone
  Announce this to you: they are laid aside,

  9 lines
• The Landing

  THE great ship lantern-girdled.
  The tender standing by;

  59 lines
• Dedicatory Poem: To George Sigerson, Poet And Scholar

  Two men of art, they say, were with the sons
  Of Milé,—a poet and a harp player,

  27 lines
• The Sea Bird To The Wave

  On and on,
  O white brother!

  10 lines
• King Cahill's Farewell To The Rye Field

  WRITTEN TO THE LONDONDERRY AIR
  "Tira autumn sun your shadow's flung, my Cahill,

  21 lines
• The Terrible Robber Men

  OH I wish the sun was bright in the sky,
  And the fox was back in his den O!

  16 lines
• In The Carolina Woods

  HERE you should lie, ye Kings of eld,
  Barbarossa, Boabdil,

  16 lines
• The Resplendent Quetzal-Bird

  OTHERS have divers paints and enamels,
  Lavish and bright on breast and wing feathers:

  13 lines
• The Knitters

  IN companies or lone
  They bend their heads, their hands

  53 lines
• Garadh

  FOR the poor body that I own
  I could weep many a tear:

  18 lines
• The Sister's Lullaby

  You would not slumber
  If laid at my breast:

  26 lines
• Macaws

  GREEN wings and yellow breasts on birds that stare
  That turn their heads and stare,

  11 lines
• The Rune-Master

  ARCH-SCHOLAR they'll call you,
  Kuno Mayer,

  59 lines
• Gilderoy

  THE smith who made the manacles,
  With bar and bolt, and link and ring,

  17 lines
• Girls Spinning

  FIRST GIRL
  MALLO lero iss im bo nero!

  127 lines
• Spinning Songs

  A MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG
  (A Young Girl sings it)

  110 lines
• Old Soldier

  WE wander now who marched before,
  Hawking our bran from door to door,

  13 lines
• The Beggar's Child

  MAVOURNEEN, we'll go far away
  From the net of the crooked town

  14 lines
• No Child

  I HEARD in the night the pigeons
  Stirring within their nest:

  8 lines
• Imitation of a Welsh Poem

  AND that was when the chevaldour
  Through the whole of night

  18 lines
• David Ap Gwillam At The Mass Of The Birds

  THE Thrush, the Lark, and, chief, the Nightingale,
  With one small bird whose name I do not ken,

  16 lines
• Wild Ass

  THE Wild Ass lounges, legs struck out
  In vagrom unconcern:

  18 lines
• Laburnums

  OVER old walls the Laburnums
  hang cones of fire;

  15 lines
• Song Of Starlings

  WE'VE watched the starlings flocking past the statues
  That we have often seen in other cities

  16 lines
• On Two Sisters Whose Deaths Were Together

  IN woods remote, hid in the mountain hollows,
  Doves there are that have a gentler beauty,

  13 lines
• Odysseus: In Memory Of Arthur Griffith

  You had the prose of logic and of scorn,
  And words to sledge an iron argument,

  37 lines
• Roger Casement

  THEY have hanged Roger Casement to the tolling
  of a bell,

  20 lines
• In Memory Of Thomas Hughes Kelly

  I DREAMT my friend had come into the room
  Where I had chided him for tasks delayed,

  22 lines
• The Poor Girl's Meditation

  I AM sitting here
  Since the moon rose in the night,

  34 lines
• Dermott Donn MacMorna

  ONE day you'll come to my husband's door,
  Dermoit Donn MacMorna,

  23 lines

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