The Mentor Book of Irish Poetry: From AE to YeatsDevin A. Garrity |
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Page 101
... eyes , the slanderers of love have sealed my lips . Watch what my eyes are saying , as you sit over there : " Keep night around us ! Would that we could stay like this for ever ! Do not let morning in ! Arise and put out the light of ...
... eyes , the slanderers of love have sealed my lips . Watch what my eyes are saying , as you sit over there : " Keep night around us ! Would that we could stay like this for ever ! Do not let morning in ! Arise and put out the light of ...
Page 316
... eyes , Earth straying children With sudden memory wise . They pause , and their eyes in the moonlight With fairy wisdom cold , Grow dim and a thought goes fluttering In the hearts no longer old . And then the dream forsakes them , And ...
... eyes , Earth straying children With sudden memory wise . They pause , and their eyes in the moonlight With fairy wisdom cold , Grow dim and a thought goes fluttering In the hearts no longer old . And then the dream forsakes them , And ...
Page 420
... eyes that looked so mild ? Hurroo ! hurroo ! Where are your eyes that looked so mild ? Hurroo ! hurroo ! Where are your eyes that looked so mild , When my poor heart you first beguiled ? Why did you run from me and the child ? Och ...
... eyes that looked so mild ? Hurroo ! hurroo ! Where are your eyes that looked so mild ? Hurroo ! hurroo ! Where are your eyes that looked so mild , When my poor heart you first beguiled ? Why did you run from me and the child ? Och ...
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17th century Aghadoe Aileen aroon beauty birds breast Brian O'Linn bright caubeen century cold dance Dark Rosaleen dead dear death door dream earth eyes F. R. Higgins face fair feet Floodtide fool girl God save Ireland gone grass grave green grey grief hair hand hath hear heart heaven hill holy Hurroo Inishtrahull Ireland Irish King Kinkora kiss knew L. A. G. Strong Ladle lake land light lips live lonely maid MARY DEVENPORT O'NEILL moon morning mountain never night o'er PADRAIC PEARSE poems poets pray quiet road rose Says the Shan SEAN O'FAOLAIN Shan Van Vocht sigh silent singing sleep snow soft song sorrow soul stars stone sweet tears tell thee There's Thomas Macdonagh thou thought tide tree W. R. RODGERS watch weeping wild wind woman wonder young