Loonely in me loneness. For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never s...ee. Nor know. Nor miss me. And it's old and old and it's sad and old it's sad and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold mad father, my cold mad feary father, till the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananonaning, makes me seasilt saltsick, and I rush, my only, into your arms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Och, Dublin City, there is no doubtin', Bates every city upon the say;... 'Tis there you'll see O'Connell spoutin', An' Lady Morgan makin' tay; For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, Wid charmin' pisintry on a fruitful sod, Fightin' like divils for conciliation An' hatin' each other for the love of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!... Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anorexic prefigures this culture in rather a poetic fashion by trying to keep it at bay. He refuses lack. He says: I lack noth...ing, therefore I shall not eat. With the overweight person, it is the opposite: he refuses fullness, repletion. He says, I lack everything, so I will eat anything at all. The anorexic staves off lack by emptiness, the overweight person staves off fullness by excess. Both are homeopathic final solutions, solutions by extermination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high... Over the chained bay waters Liberty-- Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyesLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A stag of warrant, a stag, a stag, A runnable stag, a kingly crop,... Brow, bay and tray and three on top, A stag, a runnable stag.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »