THE cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the m

Shepherd. That cry’s from the fir
I wished before it ceased.
Goatherd. Nor bird n
Could make me wish for anything th
Being old, but that the old alone

WOULD I could cast a sail on th
Where many a king has gone
And many a king’s daughter,
And alight at the comely trees and
The playing upon pipes and the dan

Through winter-time we call on spr
And through the spring on summer c
And when abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter’s best of all;
And after that there’s nothing goo

YOU ask what—I have found, and f
Nothing but Cromwell’s house and
The lovers and the dancers are bea
And the tall men and the swordsmen
And there is an old beggar wanderi

SHE might, so noble from head
To great shapely knees
The long flowing line,
Have walked to the altar
Through the holy images

A man came slowly from the setting
To Emer, raddling raiment in her
And said, “I am that swineherd wh
Go watch the road between the wood
But now I have no need to watch i

HALF close your eyelids, loosen
And dream about the great and thei
They have spoken against you every
But weigh this song with the great
I made it out of a mouthful of air

ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all
The tall thought-woven sails, that
Above the tide of hours, trouble t
And God’s bell buoyed to be the w
While hushed from fear, or loud wi

WHEN all works that have
From cradle run to grave
From grave to cradle run instead;
When thoughts that a fool
Has wound upon a spool