GRANDFATHER sang it under the
‘ Hear, gentlemen, ladies, and all
Money is good and a girl might be
But good strong blows are delights
There, standing on the catt,

I THOUGHT of your beauty, and
Made out of a wild thought, is in
There’s no man may look upon her,
As when newly grown to be a woman,
Tall and noble but with face and b

THIS night has been so strange t
As if the hair stood up on my head
From going-down of the sun I have
That women laughing, or timid or w
In rustle of lace or silken stuff,

Slim adolescence that a nymph has
Peleus on Thetis stares.
Her limbs are delicate as an eyeli
Love has blinded him with tears;
But Thetis’ belly listens.

Man. In a cleft that’s christened
Under broken stone I halt
At the bottom of a pit
That broad noon has never lit,
And shout a secret to the stone.

TIME drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and the woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the he

KING EOCHAID came at sundown
Westward of Tara. Hurrying to hi
He had outridden his war-wasted me
That with empounded cattle trod th
And where beech-trees had mixed a

WHEN the flaming lute-thronged a
When an immortal passion breathes
Our hearts endure the scourge, the
Crowded with bitter faces, the wou
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flow

We sat under an old thorn-tree
And talked away the night,
Told all that had been said or don
Since first we saw the light,
And when we talked of growing up