“Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water” WorldGivingWaterMembersFairyIrelandSentimentalBaptizedBeing Irish Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.” GivingShouldYearsWholeNextLeftFireTreeHairWallMonthsKissingShadowDancingLondonRememberedAutumnLeapSeptemberScentVitalityWaterfallsPerplexedFireplaces Book:Autumn Journal Source: Autumn Journal
