My darling lies down in her soft w… And she laughs at me. Her laughter has flushed her pale… Her eyes dance with glee. My darling lies close in her warm…

They say—priests say— That God loves the world. Maybe he does, When the dew is pearl’d On the emerald grass,

Once I thought my love was worth… If tears came. When the wound is mortal, now I k… Few tears flow.

I came to live in Sophia Street, In a little house in Sophia Stree… With an inch of floor Between door and door And a yard you’d measure in childr…

At ten o’clock the great gong soun… Prelude to splendour. I push back… And all the people leave their boo… Still acquiescent, down the marble… Into the dark where we can’t read.…

I bought a red hat To please my lover. He will hardly see it When he looks me over, Though it’s a fine hat.

‘I want a parlourmaid.’ ‘Well, let me see If you were God, what kind of mai… ‘She would be tall, She would be fair,

Up in my room on my unmade bed I sat and read. There was work waiting for me belo… I didn’t go. For in my little green room the so…

O you, dear trees, you have learne… You must have studied this only th… Men have thought of God and laugh… And of love. And of song. But you, dear trees, from your bir…

I like the riders Clad in rose and blue; Their colours glitter And their horses too. Swift go the riders

Do you remember still the little s… I mumbled on the hill at Aura, ho… I told you it was made for Katie’… When I was fresh from school and… With all the strength of girlhood?…

Today I’d like to be a nun And go and say My rosary beneath the trees out th… In this shy sun

I must be dreaming through the day… And see the world with childish ey… If I’d go singing all my life And my songs be wise And in the kitchen or the house

When I am articled The Law decrees I shall devote my time To stating fees And learning about Actions

You, whom the grave cannot bind, Shall a song hold you? Still you escape from the mesh Spun to enfold you. Your woven texture of flesh