Subject for April, 2018
Into the Twilight
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mot...
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A Cradle Song
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
The Danann children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heav...
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Breasal the Fisherman
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
Although you hide in the ebb and flow Of the pale tide when the moon has set, The people of coming days will know About the casting out of my net, And how you have leaped times ...
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The Host of the Air
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
O’Driscoll drove with a song, The wild duck and the drake, From the tall and the tufted reeds Of the drear Hart Lake. And he saw how the reeds grew dark At the coming of ...
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Aedh Tells of the Rose in his Heart
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wi...
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The Moods
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; What one in the rout Of the fire-born moods, Has fallen away?
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The Everlasting Voices
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
O sweet everlasting Voices be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will Flame under flame, till Time be no more; Have you not heard that...
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The Hosting of the Sidhe
Subject: The Wind Among the Reeds
The host is riding from Knocknarea And over the grave of Clooth-na-bare; Caolte tossing his burning hair And Niamh calling Away, come away: Empty your heart of its mortal dream....
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Chapter 12. Letters on the Kendal and Windermere Railway—Conclusion.
Subject: Wordsworth
Wordsworth’s appointment to the Laureateship was significant in more ways than one. He was so much besides a poet, that his appointment implied something of a national recogniti...
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Chapter 11 Italian Tour—Ecclesiastical Sonnets—Political Views—Laureateship.
Subject: Wordsworth
Wordsworth was fond of travelling, and indulged this taste whenever he could afford it. Comparing himself and Southey, he says in 1843: “My lamented friend Southey used to say t...
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