Among those feasting men Cuchulain dwelt, And his young sweetheart close beside him knelt,... Stared on the mournful wonder of his eyes, Even as Spring upon the ancient skies, And pondered on the glory of his days....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard... The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"My eyes are blinking," Dathi said, "With the secrets of God half blind,... But I can see where the wind goes And follow the way of the wind; "And blessedness goes where the wind goes...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke All manner of blessed souls,... Women and children, young men with books, And old men with croziers and stoles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a green branch hung with many a bell When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;... And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery, A Druid kindness, on all hearers fell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When cups went round at close of day Is not that how good stories run?... The gods were sitting at the board In their great house at Slievenamon. They sang a drowsy song, or snored, For all were full of wine and meat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wander on, and wave my hands, And sing, and shake my heavy locks.... The grey wolf knows me; by one ear I lead along the woodland deer; The hares run by me growing bold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain,... And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And found on the dove-grey edge of the sea A pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode... On a horse with bridle of findrinny; And like a sunset were her lips, A stormy sunset on doomed ships....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »