Padraic Colum's Poetry, by written

• I Shall not Die for Thee

  O woman, shapely as the swan,
  On your account I shall not die:

  51 lines, 8 comments
• Verses For Alfeo Faggi's Stations Of The Cross

  HERE Pilate's Court is:
  None may clatter nor call

  168 lines
• Dedication: To M. C. M. C.

  THE well-
  They come to it and take

  23 lines
• Reminiscence

  The Swallows sang
  ALIEN to us are

  379 lines
• Queen Gormlai

  NOT fingers that e'er felt
  Fine things within their hold

  52 lines
• Gilderoy

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

  17 lines
• The Miracle Of The Corn

  People in the Legend
  FARDORROUGHA A Farmer

  589 lines
• Swift's Pastoral

  A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.
  Characters:

  193 lines
• The Bird of Jesus

  IT was pure indeed,
  The air we breathed in, the light we saw,

  73 lines
• The Burial of Saint Brendan

  ON the third day from this (Saint Brendan said)
  I will be where no wind that filled a sail

  70 lines
• The Ballad Of Downal Baun

  The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,
  Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:

  185 lines
• Girls Spinning

  FIRST GIRL
  MALLO lero iss im bo nero!

  127 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
• Blades

  SOJOURNER, set down
  Your skimming wheel;

  87 lines
• Hawaiian

  SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimes
  With Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymes

  39 lines
• An Old Song Re-sung

  As I went down through Dublin city
  At the hour of twelve of the night,

  38 lines
• Achill Girl's Song

  FROM THE IRISH
  I’d bring you these for dowry

  20 lines
• The Furrow And The Hearth

  STRIDE the hill, Sower,
  Up to the sky ridge,

  66 lines
• A Connachtman

  IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet,
  Nor my wake house a silent place :

  43 lines
• Interior

  THE little moths are creeping
  Across the cottage pane;

  28 lines
• What The Shutter Said As She Lay By The Fire

  In The Farmer's House
  I'M glad to lie on a sack of leaves

  45 lines
• Spinning Songs

  A MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG
  (A Young Girl sings it)

  110 lines
• The Knitters

  IN companies or lone
  They bend their heads, their hands

  53 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
• Garadh

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

  18 lines
• A Rann Of Exile

  NOR right, nor left, nor any road I see a comrade face,
  Nor word to lift the heart in me I hear in any place;

  11 lines
• Old Soldier

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

  13 lines
• The Tin-Whistle Player

  'Tis long since, long since, since I heard
  A tin-whistle played,

  25 lines
• A Mountaineer

  ERE Beowulf's song
  Was heard from the ships,

  18 lines
• Sojourning and Wandering

  AUTUMN
  A GOOD stay-at-home season is Autumn: then there's

  31 lines

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