The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold

The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears

The fascination of what’s difficult

The host is riding from Knocknarea

The island dreams under the dawn

The jester walked in the garden

The moments passed as at a play

The old brown thorn trees break in two high over Cummen Strand

The old priest Peter Gilligan

The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows

The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves

There’s many a strong farmer

There was a green branch hung with many a bell

There was a man whom Sorrow named his friend

These are the clouds about the fallen sun

The whole day have I followed in the rocks

The woods of Arcady are dead

Though leaves are many, the root is one

‘Though to my feathers in the wet’

Though you are in your shining days

Three old hermits took the air

Time drops in decay

‘Time to put off the world and go somewhere’

Toil and grow rich

We have cried in our despair

Were you but lying cold and dead

We sat together at one summer’s end

We who are old, old and gay

“What do you make so fair and bright?”

What need you, being come to sense

What’s riches to him

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney

When my arms wrap you round I press

When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide

When you are old and gray and full of sleep

Where dips the rocky highland

While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

Who will go drive with Fergus now

Why should I blame her that she filled my days

Wine comes in at the mouth

‘Would it were anything but merely voice!’

You gave, but will not give again

“Your eyes that once were never weary of mine”

You say, as I have often given tongue

You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play

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LA VITA NUOVA, Dante Alighieri. 56pp. 0-486-41915-0

101 GREAT AMERICAN POEMS, The American Poetry & Literacy Project (ed.). (Available in U.S. only.) 96pp. 0-486-40158-8

ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY: An Anthology, Stanley Appelbaum (ed.). 256pp. 0-486-29282-7

BHAGAVADGITA, Bhagavadgita. 112pp. 0-486-27782-8

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BLAKE’S SELECTED POEMS, William Blake. 96pp. 0-486-28517-0

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, William Blake. 64pp. 0-486-27051-3

THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF HAIKU: An Anthology, Faubion Bowers (ed.). 96pp. 0-486-29274-6

TO MY HUSBAND AND OTHER POEMS, Anne Bradstreet (Robert Hutchinson, ed.). 80pp. 0-486-41408-6

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