Author: James Joyce

Thou leanest to the shell of night, Dear lady, a divining ear. In that soft choiring of delight What sound […]

Silently she’s combing, Combing her long hair Silently and graciously, With many a pretty air. The sun is in the […]

Bright cap and streamers, He sings in the hollow: Come follow, come follow, All you that love. Leave dreams to […]

From dewy dreams, my soul, arise, From love’s deep slumber and from death, For lo! the treees are full of […]

Who goes amid the green wood With springtide all adorning her? Who goes amid the merry green wood To make […]

O Sweetheart, hear you Your lover’s tale; A man shall have sorrow When friends him fail. For he shall know […]

Go seek her out all courteously, And say I come, Wind of spices whose song is ever Epithalamium. O, hurry […]

Of that so sweet imprisonment My soul, dearest, is fain – Soft arms that woo me to relent And woo […]

Wind whines and whines the shingle, The crazy pierstakes groan; A senile sea numbers each single Slimesilvered stone. From whining […]

What counsel has the hooded moon Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, Of Love in ancient plenilune, Glory and […]

I heard their young hearts crying Loveward above the glancing oar And heard the prairie grasses sighing: No more, return […]

Now, O now, in this brown land Where Love did so sweet music make We two shall wander, hand in […]

He travels after a winter sun, Urging the cattle along a cold red road, Calling to them, a voice they […]

I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in […]

The twilight turns from amethyst To deep and deeper blue, The lamp fills with a pale green glow The trees […]

The eyes that mock me sign the way Whereto I pass at eve of day. Grey way whose violet signals […]

Rain has fallen all the day. O come among the laden trees: The leaves lie thick upon the way Of […]

Though I thy Mithridates were, Framed to defy the poison-dart, Yet must thou fold me unaware To know the rapture […]

Be not sad because all men Prefer a lying clamour before you: Sweetheart, be at peace again – Can they […]

Love Came to Us Love came to us in time gone by When one at twilight shyly played And one […]

Gaunt in gloom, The pale stars their torches, Enshrouded, wave. Ghostfires from heaven’s far verges faint illume, Arches on soaring […]

Lightly come or lightly go: Though thy heart presage thee woe, Vales and many a wasted sun, Oread let thy […]

Sleep now, O sleep now, O you unquiet heart! A voice crying “Sleep now” Is heard in my heart. The […]

My dove, my beautiful one, Arise, arise! The night-dew lies Upon my lips and eyes. The odorous winds are weaving […]

Strings in the earth and air Make music sweet; Strings by the river where The willows meet. There’s music along […]

They mouth love’s language. Gnash The thirteen teeth Your lean jaws grin with. Lash Your itch and quailing, nude greed […]

I would in that sweet bosom be (O sweet it is and fair it is!) Where no rude wind might […]

O cool is the valley now And there, love, will we go For many a choir is singing now Where […]

Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like […]

A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star Piercing the west, As thou, fond heart, love’s time, so faint, so far, […]