Here - derelict town Streets have no names Bricks fallen down Dust on my shoes Maybe I'm wrong Once in my youth... Yes, this is the place Counter still here Blood on the floor Grey atmosphere It's all coming back Back to me now A stranger came into the room Those eyes caught fire to a bittersweet tune A moment's touch out of nowhere crossed Two...Learn More

Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats There we've hid our faery vats Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can...Learn More

Although I can see him still The freckled man who goes To a gray place on a hill In gray Connemara clothes At dawn to cast his flies It's long since I began To call up to the eyes This wise and simple man All day I'd looked in the face What I had hoped it would be To write for my own race And the reality: The living men that I hate The dead man...Learn More

It's over now The waiting game Its all so fine But all the saint The fight goes on But over now This waiting game Love's a smell of roses Hate a withered twin Then I wasn't sure 'til you broke the silence saying "I would love to walk that aisle again I would love to walk that aisle again" But love appears so fickle And fleeting through the...Learn More

Hope that you may understand What can books, of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea nymphs in their pearly waggons Do, but awake a hope to live That had gone With the dragons?...Learn More

Then as I fade Fade into black A light gets so strong I feel it's pulling me back To the last fight But then who am I To question fate Or is it too late for bailing out? And will the memories of my life Be seeing you breaking down and cry Life's indisputable, mutable When the music dies Different views In different times You kept your cool When...Learn More

Dance there upon the shore What need have you to care For wind or water's roar And tumble out your hair That the salt drops have wet Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind What need have you to dread The monstrous crying of wind...Learn More

"I will arise now go now, and go to Innisfree And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made" "Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot...Learn More

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees Those dying generations at their song The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect An aged man is but a paltry...Learn More

Saw two men duelling at the break of dawn Confrontations for the likes of you Who never lose a moment to delude your prey As they drink the venom From the kiss you'd saved Thus I am the one you made So many years into the shade Everlasting is the flame Crime of passion - who's to blame Over my restless soul My heart and bones Defenceless those...Learn More

[The Witch] Toil and grow rich What's that but to lie With a foul witch And after, drained dry To be brought To the chamber where Lies one long sought With despair? [The Mermaid] A mermaid found a swimming lad Picked him for her own Pressed her body to his body Laughed and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown...Learn More

'Call down the hawk from the air Let him be hooded or caged Till the yellow eye has grown mild For larder and spit are bare The old cook enraged The scullion gone wild' 'I will not be clapped in a hood Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist Now I have learnt to be proud Hovering over the wood In the broken mist Or tumbling cloud' 'What tumbling cloud...Learn More