#Irish
The wind rose, the sea rose A wave rose on the sea, It sang the mournful singing Of a sad centenary; It sang the song of an old man
No hungry star ascendant at my bir… Foretold the famine that consumes… No flaming sword prohibited the wa… Of vision where I parch through b… Alas! no flower of heaven or of ea…
I thought I’d never hear your ton… Again in this dead world of shame As once when heart and world were… And then—you spoke my name. The barriers of space were spread
I felt within my heart awake and g… A spirit of Love’s excellence tha… Then I beheld Love as from afar h… So joyful that his face I scarce… He said: Now think all honour me…
There is no deed I would not dare… Unloving, but to gain your smile, No shame or sorrow I would not sh… (Though withering in a wintry whil… If I could win your friendship’s…
If I should need to tear aside The veils that hide both Heaven a… To tell you that a soul had died That once but tried to love you we… No breath should blow those veils…
The day I knew you loved me we ha… Deep in Coill Doraca down by Gle… Unknown to each till suddenly I s… You in the shadow, knew oppressive… Stopping my heart, and there you d…
Our lips can only stammer, yet we… High things of God. We do not hop… The splendour and the glory of his… Nor light up Heaven with our low… But we will follow thee, his hiero…
O Bright! thy stateliness and gra… Thy bearing and thy dignity Bring intuition of the place That still is native unto thee. Solely thy native airs delight
I love you with my every breath, I make you songs like thunder bird… Give you my life’you give me dea… And stab me with your dreadful wor… You laid my head against your hear…
Crowns and imperial purple, throne… Onyx and sard and blazing diadems, Lazuli and hyacinth and powerful g… Undreamt of even in Babylon of ol… May for a price be given, bought a…
Now a gentle dusk shall fall Slowly on the world, and all The singing voices softly cease And a silence and great peace Cover all the blushing earth
As blazes forth through clouds the… So shines your soul, and I must v… Lest it be stricken to eternal nig… By too much seeing ere my song be… And I must sing your body’s cloud…
She walks the azure meadows where… Shed glowing petals on her moon-wh… The planets sing to see her, and t… Her, nebulae unfold like nenuphars… No dread eclipse the morn of Heav…
O Covenant! O Temple! O trail pr… Of God’s high glory! Set your sno… On the Red Mountain, while the pi… Of proximate apocalypse. Uncried Halloos of havoc, prophecies denie…