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James Stephens
1882 - 1950
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Dunphy's Corner (The Rocky Road To Dublin)
Pacing slowly down the road / Black horses go, with load on load / Of Dublin people dead, and they
Egan O'Rahilly
Here in a distant place I hold my tongue; / I am O'Rahilly: / When I was young,
Eileen, Diarmuid And Teig
Be kind unto these three, O King! / For they were fragrant-skinned, cheerful and giving; / Three stainless pearls, three of mild, winning ways,
From Hawk And Kite (The Rocky Road To Dublin)
Poor, frightened, fluttered, silent one! / If we had seen your nest of clay / We would have passed it by, and gone,
Geoffrey Keating
O woman full of wiliness! / Although for love of me you pine, / Withhold your hand adventurous,
George's Street (The Rocky Road To Dublin)
Listen! if but women were / Half as kind as they are fair, / There would be an end to all
Grafton Street (The Rocky Road To Dublin)
At four o'clock, in dainty talk, / Lords and lovely ladies walk, / With a gentle dignity,
Holles Street (The Rocky Road To Dublin)
Through the air, / Everywhere, the rain is falling; / Brawling on house and tree:
Honoro Butler And Lord Kenmare (1720)
In bloom and bud the bees are busily / Storing against the winter their sweet hoard / That shall be rifled ere the autumn be
In The Cool Of The Evening
I thought I heard Him calling. Did you hear / A sound, a little sound? My curious ear / Is dinned with flying noises, and the tree
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