Thomas MacDonagh Poems

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1.
The Stars Stand Up In The Air

The stars up in the air,
The sun and the moon are gone,
The strand of its waters is bare.
And her sway is swept from the swan.
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2.
On A Poet Patriot

His songs were a little phrase
Of eternal song,
Drowned in the harping of lays
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3.
The Yellow Bittern

The yellow bittern that never broke out
In a drinking bout, might as well have drunk;
His bones are thrown on a naked stone
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4.
A Dream Of Being

I walked in dream within a convent close,
And met there lonely a familiar nun;
Then in my mind arose
A vehement memory strife
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5.
The Man Upright

I once spent an evening in a village
Where the people are all taken up with tillage,
Or do some business in a small way
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6.
The Night Hunt

In the morning, in the dark,
When the stars begin to blunt,
By the wall of Barna Park
Dogs I heard and saw them hunt
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7.
In Paris

So here is my desert and here am I
In the midst of it alone,
Silent and free, as a hawk in the sky,
Unnoticed and unknown.
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8.
Barbara: Born 24th March, 1915

You come in the day of destiny,
Barbara, born to the air of Mars:
The greater glory you shall see
And the greater peace, beyond these wars.
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9.
Eamonn An Chnuic

--Who is that out there still
With voice sharp and shrill,
Beating my door and calling?
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10.
Quando Ver Venit Meum?

--Poet, babbling delicate song
Vainly for the ears of love,
Vail not hope if thou wait long;
Charming thy hope to song
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