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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ledwidge, francis Matches Found: 124 Ledwidge, Francis Poet's Biography 124 poems available by this author A DREAM DANCE Poem Text First Line: Maeve held a ball on the dun Last Line: My hand in that beautiful hand. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM OF ARTEMIS Poem Text First Line: There was soft beauty on the linnet's tongue Last Line: "I hear the rolling chariot of mars!" Subject(s): Artemis; Mars (god); Mythology; Mythology - Classical A FAIRY HUNT Poem Text First Line: Who would hear the fairy horn Last Line: In the dusty tree to hear. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves A FEAR Poem Text First Line: I roamed the woods today and seemed to hear Last Line: "you died long since, and all this thing is hell!" Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Death; Fear; Dead, The A LITTLE BOY IN THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: He will not come, and still I wait Last Line: Barefooted in the shining grass? Subject(s): Morning A MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Low sounds of night that drip upon the ear Last Line: Hammer in mine a never easy bell. Subject(s): Memory A MOTHER'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Little ships of whitest pearl Last Line: Whales. Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Pearls; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails A RAINY DAY IN APRIL Poem Text First Line: When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Last Line: Giving to me my ditty. Subject(s): April; Rain A SONG Poem Text First Line: My heart has flown on wings to you, away Last Line: A sad life deep below the depth of words. Subject(s): Love; Peasantry; Poverty A SONG OF APRIL Poem Text First Line: The censer of the eglantine was moved Last Line: And ground winds rocking in the lily's steeple. Subject(s): April A TWILIGHT IN MIDDLE MARCH Poem Text First Line: Within the oak a throb of pigeon wings Last Line: From little knowledge where great sorrows brood. Subject(s): Dusk; March (month) AFTER Poem Text First Line: And in the after silences Last Line: By monstrous rocks, a lonely soul. Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Wind AFTER COURT MARTIAL Poem Text First Line: My mind is not my mind, therefore Last Line: Not I the king of babylon. Subject(s): Babylon; Military Justice; World War I; Courts Martial; First World War AFTER MY LAST SONG Poem Text First Line: Where I shall rest when my last song is over Last Line: You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Poetry & Poets; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ALL-HALLOWS EVE Poem Text First Line: The dreadful hour is sighing for a moon Last Line: And two will linger at the tryst alway. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Love; Magic; Rites & Ceremonies; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night AN ATTEMPT AT A CITY SUNSET Poem Text First Line: There was a quiet glory in the sky Last Line: That sigh upon the traffic all day long. Subject(s): Evening; Muses; Sunset; Twilight AN OLD DESIRE Poem Text First Line: I searched thro' memory's lumber-room Last Line: And there are ruins in my fire. Subject(s): Desire; Earth; Memory; Ruins; World AN OLD PAIN Poem Text First Line: What old, old pain is this that bleeds anew? Last Line: And all we learn but shows we know the less Subject(s): Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Suffering; Misery; Convicts AT A POET'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend Last Line: And summer-bells are rung. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones AT CURRABWEE Poem Text First Line: Every night at currabwee Last Line: And where the vardar loudly roars? Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Ireland; Irish AUGUST Poem Text First Line: She'll come at dusky first of day Last Line: And I will follow her away. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Love; May (month); November AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Now leafy winds are blowing cold Last Line: Upon another heart in tune. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN EVENING IN SERBIA Poem Text First Line: All the thin shadows Last Line: And autumn begun. Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War BEFORE THE TEARS Poem Text First Line: You looked as sad as an eclipsed moon Last Line: So thrust my hand in yours and shook farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Pain; Tears; Parting; Suffering; Misery BEFORE THE WAR OF COOLEY Poem Text First Line: At daybreak maeve rose up from where she prayed Last Line: And sought her chamber in the dun to weep. Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Soldiers BEHIND THE CLOSED EYE Poem Text First Line: I walk the old frequented ways Last Line: On the city's strife and din. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BOUND TO THE MAST Poem Text First Line: When mildly falls the deluge of the grass Last Line: Bound to the mast of song. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise BY FAUGHAN Poem Text First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung Last Line: Between the silence and the wind. Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean CEOL SIDHE Poem Text First Line: When may is here, and every morn Last Line: And all is melody. Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Music & Musicians; Elves CREWBRAWN Poem Text First Line: White clouds that change and pass Last Line: That hollows out the graves. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones CROCKNAHARNA Poem Text First Line: On the heights of crocknaharna Last Line: Twenty hundred miles away. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) DAWN Poem Text First Line: Quiet miles of golden sky Last Line: A little rose-bud of a song. Subject(s): Beauty; Dawn; Sunrise DESIRE IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: I love the cradle songs the mothers sing Last Line: And silent changes colour up the hedge. Subject(s): Spring EVENING CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: A little flock of clouds go down to rest Last Line: And still on purley common gooseboys sing. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Clouds; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings EVENING IN ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: From its blue vase the rose of evening drops Last Line: I and a marsh bird only make a wail. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain EVENING IN FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: The windy evening drops a grey Last Line: Before the fall of babylon. Subject(s): February EVENING IN MAY Poem Text First Line: There is nought tragic here, tho' night Last Line: Has all in one short plagiarised rhyme. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Love; May (month); Plagiarism FAIRIES Poem Text First Line: Maiden-poet, come with me Last Line: Innocent and overgrown? Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Elves FATE Poem Text First Line: Lugh made a stir in the air Last Line: And my pipe yet new. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny GOD'S REMEMBRANCE Poem Text First Line: There came a whisper from the night to me Last Line: Drowned in the lavender of evening sea. Subject(s): God GROWING OLD Poem Text First Line: We'll fill a provence bowl and pledge us deep Last Line: We're growing odd and old, my heart and I. Subject(s): Aging HAD I A GOLDEN POUND TO SPEND Poem Text HAD I A GOLDEN POUND TO SPEND HOME Poem Text First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn Last Line: That call across the world to me. Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War IN A CAFE Poem Text First Line: Kiss the maid and pass her round Last Line: Their hearts at peace, their god above them. Subject(s): Restaurants; Soldiers; World War I; Cafes; Diners; First World War IN FRANCE Poem Text First Line: The silence of maternal hills Last Line: And there I wander as I will. Subject(s): Dreams; France; Nightmares IN MANCHESTER Poem Text First Line: There is a noise of feet that move in sin Last Line: Near the peace of lakes when I have ceased to roam. Subject(s): Manchester, England IN SEPTEMBER Poem Text First Line: Still are the meadowlands, and still Last Line: My lute can never say. Subject(s): September IN THE DUSK Poem Text First Line: Day hangs its light between two dusks, my heart Last Line: Tho' only one should listen how it sings. Subject(s): Dusk IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - GOING TO THE WAR Poem Text First Line: Lovely wings of gold and green Last Line: In my heart a newer song. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; World War I; First World War IN THE SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: The silent music of the flowers Last Line: Against my name which was a shade. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Reading INAMORATA Poem Text First Line: The bees were holding levees in the flowers Last Line: And keep me happy in your pious prayer. Subject(s): April; Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs IRELAND Poem Text First Line: I called you by sweet names by wood and linn Last Line: In such a distant clime. Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Patriotism; Irish JUNE Poem Text First Line: Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by Last Line: Will soon blow down the road all roses go. Subject(s): Spring LADY FAIR Poem Text First Line: Lady fair, have we not met? Last Line: Have we not met, lady fair? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women LAMENT FOR THE POETS: 1916 Poem Text First Line: I heard the poor old woman say Last Line: In derry of the little hills. Variant Title(s): The Blackbirds Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LOW-MOON LAND Poem Text First Line: I often look when the moon is low Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go. Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean MAY Poem Text First Line: She leans across an orchard gate somewhere Last Line: Where she is south of these wild days and drear. Subject(s): May (month) MUSIC ON WATER Poem Text First Line: Where does remembrance weep when we forget? Last Line: Watches the time, and thinks it wondrous slow. Subject(s): Death; Mars (god); Music & Musicians; Water; Dead, The MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: God made my mother on an april day Last Line: This poor bird-hearted singer of a day. Subject(s): April; Mothers NOCTURNE Poem Text First Line: The rim of the moon Last Line: On my grief, astore! Subject(s): Kisses; Moon OLD CLO' Poem Text First Line: I was just coming in from the garden Last Line: "I was nearer the gods when ""old clo'." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening ON AN OATEN STRAW Poem Text First Line: My harp is out of tune, and so I take Last Line: Seated with pan upon the mossy weir. Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs ON DREAM WATER Poem Text First Line: And so, o'er many a league of sea Last Line: O soul so often tried! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PAN Poem Text First Line: He knows the safe ways and unsafe Last Line: The very wonder of a tune. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) SOLILOQUY Poem Text First Line: When I was young I had a care Last Line: A little grave that has no name. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War SONG Poem Text First Line: The winds are scented with woods after rain Last Line: And the raindrop shed from the daisy's eye. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG Poem Text First Line: Nothing but sweet music wakes Last Line: My own beloved! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG-TIME IS OVER Poem Text First Line: I will come no more awhile Last Line: "come,"" and ""come." SORROW OF LOVE First Line: I saw my love in his anger Last Line: At the rim of the world's ring Subject(s): Love SPRING (1) Poem Text First Line: Once more the lark with song and speed Last Line: Safe in my dearest memory. Subject(s): Spring SPRING (2) Poem Text First Line: The dews drip roses on the meadows Last Line: The wild delights of spring. Subject(s): Spring SPRING AND AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Green ripples singing down the corn Last Line: And full of winter pain. Subject(s): Corn; Gold; Green (color); Pain; Winter; Suffering; Misery SPRING LOVE Poem Text First Line: I saw her coming through the flowery grass Last Line: My last kiss burning on her lovely mouth. Subject(s): Kisses; Love THE BROKEN TRYST Poem Text First Line: Dropping words of larks, the sweetest tongue Last Line: And shall the world now end and the heavens fall? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE COMING POET Poem Text First Line: Is it far to the town?' said the poet Last Line: Fame at his crumbled head. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE DEAD KINGS Poem Text First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEATH OF AILILL Poem Text First Line: When there was heard no more the war's loud sound, Last Line: And knew by the cold touch that he was dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF LEAG, CUCHULAIN'S CHARIOTEER Poem Text First Line: I only heard the loud ebb on the sand Last Line: "they come to you with sleep." Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland; Mythology; Heroes; Heroines; Irish THE DEATH OF SUALTEM Poem Text First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse. Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The THE DEPARTURE OF PROSERPINE Poem Text First Line: Old mother earth for me already grieves Last Line: No secret turning leads from the gods' way. Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina THE FIND Poem Text First Line: I took a reed and blew a tune Last Line: Upon a fairy mound. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fairies; Mythology - Irish; Reeds; Elves THE GARDENER Poem Text First Line: Among the flowers, like flowers, her slow Last Line: And sees a garden blowing in the fire. Subject(s): Fire; Gardens & Gardening THE HERONS Poem Text First Line: As I was climbing ardan mor Last Line: Nor any waters flow. Variant Title(s): Ardan Mor Subject(s): Herons THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: The hills are crying from the fields to me Last Line: That strikes the world in admiration mute. Subject(s): Jason; Pigeons THE HOMECOMING OF THE SHEEP Poem Text First Line: The sheep are coming home in greece Last Line: And the climbing moon grows small. Subject(s): Greece; Sheep; World War I; Greeks; First World War THE LANAWN SHEE Poem Text First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish THE LITTLE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Hunger points a bony finger Last Line: With gladness, youth and may. Subject(s): Children; Hunger; May (month); Childhood THE LOST ONES Poem Text First Line: Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills Last Line: Crying about the dark for those who died. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE LURE Poem Text First Line: I saw night leave her halos down Last Line: When south-east winds are blowing low. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MAID IN LOW-MOON LAND Poem Text First Line: I know not where she be, and yet Last Line: But only I sit here and moan. Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness THE PASSING OF CAOILTE Poem Text First Line: Twas just before the truce sang thro' the din Last Line: And where they went away what man has heard? Subject(s): Heroism; Mythology - Australian; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Heroes; Heroines THE PLACE Poem Text First Line: Blossoms as old as may I scatter here Last Line: And, god! To hear the blackbird sing once more. THE RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: My true love still is all that's fair Last Line: Which throws a shadow on my mind. Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; Trees THE RUSHES Poem Text First Line: The rushes nod by the river Last Line: My feet in rhyme with her feet. Subject(s): Fairies; Feet; Elves THE SHADOW PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: Old lame bridget doesn't hear Last Line: And with the shadow people be. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE SHIPS OF ARCADY Poem Text First Line: Thro' the faintest filigree Last Line: In the misty filigree. Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Arcadia; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE SINGER'S MUSE Poem Text First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation THE SISTER Poem Text First Line: I saw the little quiet town Last Line: And ships upon the sea? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Laughter; Sisters; Childhood THE SORROW OF FINDEBAR Poem Text First Line: Why do you sorrow, child? There is loud cheer Last Line: "and that is why it pines and will not break." Subject(s): Banshees; Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE SYLPH Poem Text First Line: I saw you and I named a flower Last Line: An evening of amethyst. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairy Tales THE VISION ON THE BRINK Poem Text First Line: Tonight when you sit in the deep hours alone Last Line: God is in all our hurry and delay. THE VISITATION OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: I closed the book of verse where sorrow wept Last Line: Rising see clear the everlasting land. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Grief; Keats, John (1795-1821); Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness THE WEDDING MORNING Poem Text First Line: Spread the feast, and let there be Last Line: And cathleen weeps among her streams. Subject(s): Marriage; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE OF LLEW Poem Text First Line: And gwydion said to math, when it was spring Last Line: And bore away his wife of birds and flowers. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text First Line: He shall not hear the bittern cry Last Line: Lifting her horn in pleasant meads. Subject(s): Mcdonagh, Thomas (1878-1916) THOUGHTS AT THE TRYSTING STILE Poem Text First Line: Come, may, and hang a white flag on each thorn Last Line: Like wind-looped flowers. Subject(s): Laughter; May (month); Psyche (mythology) THRO' BOGAC BAN Poem Text First Line: I met the silent wandering man Last Line: Of bogac ban once more I go. TO A DISTANT ONE Poem Text First Line: Through wild by-ways I come to you, my love Last Line: Strong as the spring is strong. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO A LINNET IN A CAGE Poem Text First Line: When spring is in the fields that stained your wing Last Line: From worlds of sleeping pain. Subject(s): Cages; Linnets TO A SPARROW Poem Text First Line: Because you have no fear to mingle Last Line: And the snow is on the hill. Subject(s): Sparrows TO AN OLD QUILL OF LORD DUNSANY'S Poem Text First Line: Before you leave my hands' abuses! Last Line: Over the dark rubicon. Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Plunkett, Edward [dunsany] (1878-1957) TO EILISH OF THE FAIR HAND Poem Text First Line: I'd make my heart a harp to play for you Last Line: Sunlight on other hearts -- ah! How it kills it. Subject(s): December TO LORD DUNSANY (ON HIS RETURN FROM EAST AFRICA) Poem Text First Line: For you I knit these lines, and on their ends Last Line: And where the weeds among the flowers do spring. Subject(s): Africa; Greetings; Plunkett, Edward [dunsany] (1878-1957) TO MR. MCG Poem Text First Line: We were all sad and could not weep Last Line: To any threat'ning fears. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO MY BEST FRIEND Poem Text First Line: I love the wet-lipped wind that stirs the hedge Last Line: Words for the faithful meet, the good and true. Subject(s): Friendship TO ONE DEAD Poem Text First Line: A blackbird singing Last Line: And the sorrow for me. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness TO ONE WEEPING Poem Text First Line: Maiden, these are sacred tears Last Line: In my heart at singing time. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO ONE WHO COMES NOW AND THEN Poem Text First Line: When you come in, it seems a brighter fire Last Line: Above you smile or frown. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Change; June UNA BAWN Poem Text First Line: Una bawn, the days are long, Last Line: Una bawn, and I must bide. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish WAITING Poem Text First Line: A strange old woman on the wayside sate Last Line: Then shook her head and sighed. Subject(s): Women WHEN LOVE AND BEAUTY WANDER AWAY Poem Text First Line: When love and beauty wander away, Last Line: Who have known beauty, and spring, and love? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of WITH FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: These have more language than my song Last Line: A foolish and an overwise. Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Love YOUTH Poem Text First Line: She paved the way with perfume sweet Last Line: She left me to grow old alone. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of |
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