NOR dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,

I HAVE heard the pigeons of the
Make their faint thunder, and the
Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and
The unavailing outcries and the ol
That empty the heart. I have forg

‘WHAT have I earned for all that
‘For all that I have done at my o
The daily spite of this unmannerly
Where who has served the most is m
The reputation of his lifetime los

I SAT on cushioned otter-skin:
My word was law from Ith to Emain
And shook at Inver Amergin
The hearts of the world-troubling
And drove tumult and war away

I CRIED when the moon was mutmu
‘Let peewit call and curlew cry wh
I long for your merry and tender a
For the roads are unending, and th
The honey-pale moon lay low on the

THE threefold terror of love; a f
Through the hollow of an ear;
Wings beating about the room;
The terror of all terrors that I
The Heavens in my womb.

She hears me strike the board and
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad name

WHAT sort of man is coming
To lie between your feet?
What matter, we are but women.
Wash; make your body sweet;
I have cupboards of dried fragranc

I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
All night’s fathomless wisdom come
That I had shorn my locks away
And laid them on Love’s lettered
But something bore them out of sig

I lived among great houses,
Riches drove out rank,
Base drove out the better blood,
And mind and body shrank.
No Oscar ruled the table,