Lib. Psalm.

CONTENTS

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[I am the Mountainy Singer]1
[When Rooks Fly Homeward]2
[I Spin my Golden Web]2
[Cherry Valley]3
[Darkness]3
[My Fidil is Singing]4
[The Goat Dealer]4
[Why Crush the Claret Rose]5
[Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin]6
[To a Town Girl]8
[A March Moon]8
[A Thousand Feet Up]9
[The Dark]9
[Reynardine]11
[Snow]11
[I am the Gilly of Christ]12
[Go, Ploughman, Plough]13
[Go, Reaper]14
[The Good People]14
[The Storm is Still, the Rain hath Ceased]15
[Scare-the-Crows]16
[A Cradle Song]17
[Twine the Mazes Thro’ and Thro’]18
[The Fighting-Man]19
[My Mother has a Wee Red Shoe]20
[By a Wondrous Mystery]21
[I Gather Three Ears of Corn]22
[The Tinkers]23
[As I Came over the Grey, Grey Hills]24
[A Northern Love-Song]24
[To the Golden Eagle]25
[A Prophecy]26
[I Met a Walking-Man]27
[The Ninepenny Fidil]28
[Grasslands are Fair]29
[Winter Song]30
[I Follow a Star]30
[The Silence of Unlaboured Fields]31
[The Beggar’s Wake]32
[The Besom-Man]36
[Every Shuiler is Christ]38
[I Wish and I Wish]39
[I am the Man-Child]40
[Fragment]41
[At the Whitening of the Dawn]42
[Who are My Friends]43
[O Glorious Childbearer]44
[Coronach]44
[Twilight Fallen]45
[The Dawn Whiteness]45
[The Dwarf]46
[I See all Love in Lowly Things]47
[’Tis Pretty tae be in Baile-Liosan]48
[Ciaran, the Master of Horses and Lands]49
[Deep Ways and Dripping Boughs]50
[Night, and I Travelling]50
[Night-Piece]51
[At Morning Tide]51
[The May-Fire]52
[I Love the Din of Beating Drums]54
[Three Colts Exercising in a Six-acre]54
[The Natural]55
[On the Top-Stone]55
[The Women at their Doors]56
[My Little Dark Love]57
[I Heard a Piper Piping]58
[The Clouds go By and By]58
[Davy Daw]59
[Black Sile of the Silver Eye]62
[A Sheep-Dog Barks on the Mountain]63
[Dead Oakleaves Everywhere]64
[A Night Prayer]64
[I am the Mountainy Singer]65
[The Rainbow Spanning a Planet Shower]66
[I will Go with My Father A-Ploughing]67
[The Shining Spaces of the South]68
[Like a Tuft of Ceanabhan]68
[The Herb-Leech]69
[Who Buys Land]70
[The Poet Loosed a Wingèd Song]71
[Sic Transit]72

This book is made up of a selection from the Author’s early books, with many new poems added.

A LINE’S A SPEECH

A line’s a speech;

So here’s a line

To say this pedlar’s pack

Of mine

Is not a book—