Potential Titles: Robin Flowers

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Nor one wild random strain betray the past - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

Some prisoned joy half-manifest in you - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

The stirring tides that beat against the bounds - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

Uprose in tempest and the overflowing wave - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

To chase the flying freedom of the hills - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

As the sun sinks headlong in the ruined west - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

Far night gathers round the breaking heart of day - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

The sun and the moon and the wrath of the ocean - Robin Flower "The Charm"

The winds in their stillness, the winds in their motion - Robin Flower "The Charm"

When song upon your lips was gold - Robin Flower "Chevauchons"

Made warm pulsing worlds of planets cold - Robin Flower "Chevauchons"

To our hopes and hearts that falter - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"

Have faced each sorrow the years renew - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"

This one wisdom the days let fall - Robin Flower "Eire's Answer"

The honey of the lips betrays the honey of the heart - Robin Flower "The Exile (18th Century)"

As in the golden morning of desire - Robin Flower "Hymenaea"

No eager highways opening on despair - Robin Flower "Hymenaea"

Time has trampled with his flying feet - Robin Flower "Hymenaea"

Set all the sorrowful solitudes singing - Robin Flower "The Little Wee Lad"

And to-morrow was ten thousand years away - Robin Flower "Morning in Glenair"

That sing the silver secrets of the evening - Robin Flower "The Nightingale"

And now the words went weeping - Robin Flower "Old Songs (To E.J.)"

Another thrush behind that glad bird sings - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Multitudes blossom and waver and breathe - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

In silent places an oder silence broods - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

I remember an ancient sea and mountains older - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

I remember well the far pipes calling - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

On the trembling verges of the spring - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

Knows but the sweet survival of an hour - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

That lead to the far confluence of delights - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

But lifted far above mortality - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

And hear the sighing of the universal sea - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

Sweep the world's boundaries away - Robin Flower "Sea-Children"

That long ago were the interpreters of woe - Robin Flower "Sea-Children"

Last night we heard the elements in pain - Robin Flower "Sonnet 1 [Last night we heard the elements in pain]"

The creeping murmur of the insidious rain - Robin Flower "Sonnet 1 [Last night we heard the elements in pain]"

Time and his wrathful ministers of storm take arms - Robin Flower "Sonnet 1 [Last night we heard the elements in pain]"

Stands firm though all the world turn foe - Robin Flower "Sonnet 1 [Last night we heard the elements in pain]"

For men's thirst such bitter wells of tears - Robin Flower "Sonnet 2 [O terrible world, that hast such store of pain]"

And confidently tread the ancient ways - Robin Flower "Sonnet 2 [O terrible world, that hast such store of pain]"

And many die that one might see the Grail - Robin Flower "Sonnet 2 [O terrible world, that hast such store of pain]"

That first laid hands upon the wings of joy - Robin Flower "Sonnet 3 [Those morning lovers of the times of old]"

Up from the region of forgetting night - Robin Flower "Sonnet 4 [Not the great morning with his flight of fire]"

All the hoarded joys of yesterday - Robin Flower "Sonnet 4 [Not the great morning with his flight of fire]"

With silver pulses restlessly astir - Robin Flower "Sonnet 5 [The stars are throbbing in the lucid sky]"

Set far above the sphere of accidents - Robin Flower "Sonnet 5 [The stars are throbbing in the lucid sky]"

Changing orbit of the hosts of night - Robin Flower "Sonnet 5 [The stars are throbbing in the lucid sky]"

Fretted with travelling storms and treacherous smiles - Robin Flower "Sonnet 7 [Look from the cliff, look out upon the sea]"

Dream under larger suns and mightier moons - Robin Flower "Sonnet 7 [Look from the cliff, look out upon the sea]"

Deep withdrawn into the heedless sky - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"

A soundless vision borne on glancing feet - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"

Hearts instead of spice are made an offering and a sacrifice - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"

Knows but the sweet survival of an hour - Robin Flower "Sonnet 9 [Say not that beauty is an idle thing]"

Listen till all things fade and fall - Robin Flower "Tír na n-óg"

Keep always faith with summer - Robin Flower "Tír na n-óg"

Eternal thought in me puts on the dress of time - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

And builds a stage to mime its listless tragedy - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

In that dress of time and on that stage of space - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

I build a marble Rome, I give it to the wind - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Athens and Babylon I breathe upon the night - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Troy towers for my delight and crumbles stone by stone - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

I build and cast down the dream - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Weary grown of all my brain has wrought - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"


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