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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MYTHOLOGY - CELTIC Matches Found: 26 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CRY ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the great with love, they are deaf, they are blind Last Line: Since oisin's mother fled to the hill a spellbound hind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Greatness; Love; Mothers & Sons; Mythology - Celtic; Pity; Visually Handicapped A PRAYER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O holy spirit of the hazel, hearken now Last Line: This wild-rose blossom of thy spirit fades away. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer; Holy Spirit CARROWMORE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It's a lonely road through bogland to the lake at carrowmore Last Line: And the old enchantment lingers in the honey-heart of earth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Carrowmore (cemetery, Ireland); Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight CULTIVATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The crow's feather she tickled him with Last Line: To her amusement and his decay. Subject(s): Lies; Love; Mythology - Celtic DALUA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard you calling, dalua dalua! Last Line: Dalua . . . Dalua . . . Dalua Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Elves DANA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the tender voice calling 'away' Last Line: Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Male-female Relations FAIRIES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden-poet, come with me Last Line: Innocent and overgrown? Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Elves IRELAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 ON BAILE'S STRAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a clever man you are though you are blind! Last Line: [they go out. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations THE CHILD OF DESTINY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hero-heart of the enchanted isle Last Line: And shaking foamy heads toss the great ocean steeds. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Destiny THE DEATH OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of my much-lov'd freya! Yes, I come Last Line: Then rush'd to seize the seat of endless rest. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mythology - Celtic; Rome, Italy; War; Dead, The THE EVERLASTING BATTLE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When in my shadowy hours I pierce the Last Line: I am of dana's race divine and know I am immortal still. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Immortality; Mythology - Celtic; Optimism THE FATAL SISTERS, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the storm begins to lower Last Line: Hurry, hurry to the field. Variant Title(s): An Ode From The Norse Tongue Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Norse THE KING'S THRESHOLD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I welcome you that have the mastery Last Line: The end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic THE LAMENT OF DARTHOOL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O woods of oona, I can hear the singing Last Line: The cuckoos calling by the murmuring stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Home; Lament; Mourning; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Bereavement THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE MASTER SINGER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A laughter in the diamond air, a music in Last Line: "and with the fiery-footed watchers shake in myriad dance and song." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Singing & Singers THE RACE OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud was the hostile clang of arms Last Line: "she falls—and lo, the world again is free!" Subject(s): Freedom; Mythology - Celtic; War; Liberty THE SONG OF AEIFA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed hence, speed hence, o lone white swans Last Line: At the ringing of christ's bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Death; Jesus Christ; Mythology - Celtic; Swans; Dead, The THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy our father lir afar Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery THE TWILIGHT OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wonder of the world is o'er Last Line: Dominion and ancestral sway. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Mythology - Celtic; Past; World TRAGEDY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This, of all fates, would be the saddest end Last Line: To every baseness of the foe he fought. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Celtic; Slavery; Work; Workers; Serfs TWILIGHT BY THE CABIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, a pearl-grey river, o'er Last Line: He will follow to the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Evening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Sunset; Twilight |
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