#Irish
She sings, but we are silent: when… Of mine come to me? I as the swal… Me vocal, and this desolate silenc… The Muse has left me for I cannot… Nor does Apollo now his splendour…
Her hair’s the canopy of heaven, Her eyes the pools of healing are, Her words wild prophecies whose se… Thunders resound from star to star… Her hands and feet are jewels fine
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…
When I am dead let not your murde… Deface with their slow dropping my… Lest your grey head grow greyer fo… And fill its echoing corridors wit… Your heart that my stone monument…
I’ve watched with Death a dreadfu… Nor flinched until you plucked apa… A feather from the wings of Fear— Your innocence has stabbed my hear… I took your terrible trust to keep…
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…
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…
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…
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
Beside the golden gate there grows… Whose heavy fruit gives entrance t… Of Wonder, and the leaves thereof… Of desolation—nights of agony The buds and blossom for the fruit…
If I have you then I have everyth… In One, and that One nothing of t… Nor all compounded, and within the… Beneath the tower I wait to hear… Love breathing low above the breas…
The bread is mine Unmixed with leaven And the purple wine Of the Vines of Heaven; I have asked to see
I am the Seer: for in you I see The fair unfolding of a secret flo… The pomp and pageant of eternal po… The crown and pride of your high d… I am the Prophet: this your proph…
Rougher than Death the road I cho… Yet shall my feet not walk astray, Though dark, my way I shall not l… For this way is the darkest way. Set but a limit to the loss
The claim that has the canker on t… Is mine on you, man’s claim on Pa… Hopelessly lost that ceaselessly h… And all unmerited God still besto… The claim on the invisible wind th…