(8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972 / County Longford)

poet Padraic Colum
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Quotations

  • ''O farmer, strong farmer!
    You can spend at the fair,
    But your face you must turn
    To your crops and your care;''
    Padraic Colum (1881-1972), Irish poet. A Drover (l. 13-16). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''To Meath of the pastures,
    From wet hills by the sea,
    Through Leitrim and Longford,
    Go my cattle and me.''
    Padraic Colum (1881-1972), Irish poet. A Drover (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''Oh, to have a little house!
    To own the hearth and stool and all!
    The heaped-up sods upon the fire,
    The pile of turf against the wall!''
    Padraic Colum (1881-1972), Irish poet. An Old Woman of the Roads (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
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Tulips

An age being mathematical, these flowers
Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prized
By men with wakened, speculative minds,
And when with mathematics they explored
The Macrocosm, and came at last to
The Vital Spirit of the World, and named it
Invisible Pure Fire, or, say, the Light,
The Tulips were the Light's receptacles.
The gold, the bronze, the red, the bright-swart Tulips!

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