Couch, Arthur Quiller-. Dolor Oogo. (In John Masefield's A Sailor's Garland.)
Thirteen men by Ruan Shore,
Dolor Oogo, Dolor Oogo,
Drownèd men since 'eighty-four
Down in Dolor Oogo:
On the cliff against the sky,
Ailsa, wife of Malachi
That cold woman—
Sits and knits eternally.
De La Mare, Walter. The Keys of Morning. (In his The Listeners.)
She slanted her small bead-brown eyes
Across the empty street
And saw Death softly watching her
In the sunshine pale and sweet.
—— The Listeners.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
—— The Witch.
All of these dead were stirring
Each unto each did call,
"A witch, a witch is sleeping
Under the churchyard wall."
Dollard, Father. Ballad of the Banshee. (In J. W. Garvin's Canadian Poets and Poetry.)
Mother of mercy! there she sat,
A woman clad in a snow-white shroud,
Streamed her hair to the damp moss-mat,
White the face on her bosom bowed!