Author: James Stephens (1882 - 1950)

Text Compilations

• A Poetry Recital
• Collected Poems
• Here are Ladies
• Insurrections
• Kings and the Moon
• Little Things
• Reincarnations
• Songs from the Clay
• Strict Joy
• The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin
• The Hill of Vision

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• A bird sings now (A bird sings now) (from The Hill of Vision) - J. Duke, W. Mourant
• A bird sings now (from The Hill of Vision) - J. Duke, W. Mourant (Ora pro nobis)
• A field of daisies (In the scented bud of the morning -- O) (from Here are Ladies) - R. Quilter SPA
• A glass of beer (The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there) (from Reincarnations) - H. Andrews, J. Wilson
• A long green swell (from Insurrections) - S. Adler, J. Duke, W. Mourant (Chill of the eve)
• A man came to me at the fair (from Songs from the Clay) - C. Gibbs (The market)
• A man was sitting underneath a tree (from Insurrections) - T. Dobson (Seumas Beg)
• And it was stormy weather (Now the winds are riding by) (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Adler
• And it was windy weather (Now the winds are riding by) (from Songs from the Clay)
• And suddenly I wakened up in a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (Midnight) - J. Duke, H. Lapp
• And suddenly I wakened up in such a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - J. Duke, H. Lapp (Midnight)
• And then I pressed the shell (from Insurrections) - W. Mourant (The shell)
• And then I wakened up in such a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (Midnight) - J. Duke, H. Lapp
• And then / There rung a bell (from Insurrections) - W. Mourant (The Tale of Mad Brigid)
• An evening falls (At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
• Anthony O'Daly (Anthony!/ Since your limbs were laid out) (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, W. Mourant
• Anthony!/ Since your limbs were laid out (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, W. Mourant (Anthony O'Daly)
• A reply (Lift up my heart, and sing again) (from Songs from the Clay - A Reply) - F. Swain
• A rose for a young head (from Insurrections) - C. Forsyth, B. Treharne (The watcher)
• Arpeggio (He wills to be) (from Collected Poems) - W. Mourant [x]
• As bird to nest, when, moodily (from Strict Joy) [x] - A. Shepherd (Sarasvati)
• As down the road she wambled slow (from The Hill of Vision) - S. Barber, W. Mourant (Bessie Bobtail)
• As evening falls (At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain) (from Songs from the Clay)
• As it was windy weather (Now the winds are riding by) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Parke
• As lily grows up easily (from Reincarnations) - J. Duke, W. Mourant, D. Parke, J. Trimble (Peggy Mitchell)
• A snowy field! A stable piled (from Collected Poems) [x] (Christmas at Freelands) - D. Parke
• A snowy field (The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree) (from Collected Poems) - D. Parke [x]
• A song for lovers (The moon is shining on the sea) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Taylor
• At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant (As evening falls)
• At four o'clock, in dainty talk (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson (Grafton Street)
• At the edge of the sea (There was a river that rose) (from Songs from the Clay) - T. Dobson
• At the end of the bough, at the top of the tree (from Here are Ladies) FRE - H. Spier (Sweet apple)
• A visit from the moon () - T. Dunhill [x]
• A woman is a branchy tree (A woman is a branchy tree) (from The Hill of Vision) - L. Mann, W. Mourant
• A woman is a branchy tree (from The Hill of Vision) - L. Mann, W. Mourant (Wind and tree)
• Barbarians (I pause beside the stream and hear) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
• Bee! tell me whence do you come? (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Parke, D. Taylor (The messenger)
• Bessie Bobtail (As down the road she wambled slow) (from The Hill of Vision) - S. Barber, W. Mourant
• Breakfast time (The sun is always in the sky) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson, W. Mourant
• Check (The night was creeping on the ground) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - A. Butterworth, W. Mourant
• Chill of the eve (A long green swell) (from Insurrections) - S. Adler, J. Duke, W. Mourant
• Christmas at Freelands (The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree) (from Collected Poems) [x]
• Come with me, under my coat (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, H. Lapp, W. Mourant, D. Parke (The coolun)
• Could you but see her (from Strict Joy) [x] - M. Bowles (The white swan)
• Dark wings (Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree!)
• Day by day/ the sun's broad beam (from Songs from the Clay) (This way to Winter) - L. Mann
• Day by day (from Songs from the Clay) - L. Mann (This way to Winter)
• Dip and swing (from A Poetry Recital) - S. Barab, W. Mourant (The rose in the wind)
• Egan O'Rahilly (Here in a distant place I hold my tongue) (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant
• Every Sunday there's a throng (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson (Westland Row)
• Everything that I can spy (Everything that I can spy) (from The Hill of Vision) - W. Mourant
• Everything that I can spy (from The Hill of Vision) - W. Mourant
• Follow, follow, follow ! (from The Hill of Vision - A Prelude and a Song) - R. Hageman
• Gleaming in silver are the hills (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant (Washed in silver)
• Grafton Street (At four o'clock, in dainty talk) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson
• Here in a distant place I hold my tongue (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant (Egan O'Rahilly)
• Hesperus (Upon the sober sky thy robes are spread) (from Songs from the Clay) - F. May FRE GER GER ITA
• He wills to be (from Collected Poems) [x] - W. Mourant (Arpeggio)
• I bent again unto the ground (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant (The voice of God)
• I can see (from Songs from the Clay) (The buds) - W. Mourant
• I cling and swing (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - F. Bridge, G. Gwyther (The fifteen acres)
• If the Moon had a hand (from Here are Ladies) - H. Castleman (The Moon)
• If the Moon (If the Moon had a hand) (from Here are Ladies) - H. Castleman
• I heard a bird at dawn (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Barab, M. Bowles, A. Duff, W. Mourant, D. Taylor, R. Teed, L. White (The rivals)
• I know a girl (I know a girl) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - H. Lapp
• I know a girl (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - M. Bowles, H. Lapp, D. Parke, A. Strilko (The canal bank)
• I know the man without a soul (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Homer, F. Swain (The king of the fairy men)
• I looked from Mount Derision at (from The Hill of Vision) - F. Swain (Nucleolus)
• In Dublin town the people see (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant (O'Connell Bridge)
• Inis Fál (Now may we turn aside) (from Reincarnations) - J. Trimble [x]
• In the bud of the morning-O (In the scented bud of the morning -- O) (from Here are Ladies) - R. Quilter SPA
• In the café where I sit (from Songs from the Clay) - F. Swain (The four old men)
• In the night (There always is a noise when it is dark) (from Songs from the Clay) - E. Cone
• In the poppy field (Mad Patsy said, he said to me) (from Reincarnations) - J. Clark, J. Trimble
• In the scented bud of the morning-O (In the scented bud of the morning -- O) (from Here are Ladies) - A. Shepherd SPA
• In the scented bud of the morning -- O (from Here are Ladies) SPA - S. Barab, S. Barber, M. Bowles, J. Edmunds, R. Farley, L. Mann, W. Mourant, M. Mulliner, D. Parke, R. Quilter, A. Shepherd, M. Wyrill (The daisies)
• In the winter children go (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant (White fields)
• I pause beside the stream and hear (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant (Barbarians)
• It is not on her gown (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant (Nancy Walsh)
• I was frightened, for a wind (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant (The secret)
• I went to the Wood of Flowers (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - I. Klein (The Wood of Flowers)
• Katty Gollagher (The hill is bare : I only find) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - E. Cone, W. Mourant
• Lesbia (Sweet/ and delicate) (from Little Things) - D. Parke [x]
• Lift up my heart, and sing again (from Songs from the Clay - A Reply) - F. Swain
• Little creatures everywhere (Little things that run and quail) (from Little Things) - A. Duckworth
• Little things that run and quail (from Little Things) - A. Duckworth, W. Mourant, R. Ward (Little things)
• Little things (Little things that run and quail) (from Little Things) - W. Mourant, R. Ward
• Lovers (The moon is shining on the sea) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
• Mad Patsy said, he said to me (from Reincarnations) - J. Clark, B. Treharne, J. Trimble (In the poppy field)
• Mad Patsy (Mad Patsy said, he said to me) (from Reincarnations) - B. Treharne
• Mary Hynes (She is the sky of the sun!) (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, W. Mourant
• Mary Ruane (The sky-like girl whom we knew!) (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant
• Me company along (Follow, follow, follow !) (from The Hill of Vision - A Prelude and a Song) - R. Hageman
• Midnight (And suddenly I wakened up in such a fright) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - J. Duke, H. Lapp
• Nancy Walsh (It is not on her gown) (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant
• Nothing at all (There was a man was very old) (from The Hill of Vision) - W. Mourant
• Now I can see (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant (The buds)
• Now may we turn aside (from Reincarnations) [x] - J. Trimble (Inis Fál)
• Now the winds are riding by (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Adler, J. Duke, D. Parke (And it was windy weather)
• Now with the coming in of the spring (from Reincarnations) - J. Trimble (The County Mayo)
• Nucleolus (I looked from Mount Derision at) (from The Hill of Vision) - F. Swain
• O'Connell Bridge (In Dublin town the people see) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
• Ora pro nobis (A bird sings now) (from The Hill of Vision)
• Out and away (Silvery-black, and silvery-blue) (from A Poetry Recital) - A. Bax [x]
• Pastoral (The hill is bare : I only find) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson
• Peggy Mitchell (As lily grows up easily) (from Reincarnations) - J. Duke, W. Mourant, D. Parke, J. Trimble
• Playing upon the hill three centaurs were! (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Busch (The centaurs)
• Queen of the Bees (Bee! tell me whence do you come?) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Parke
• Remember the spider (from Kings and the Moon - Kings and Tanists) [x] - H. Lapp (Tanist)
• Righteous anger (The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there) (from Reincarnations)
• Sarasvati (As bird to nest, when, moodily) (from Strict Joy) - A. Shepherd [x]
• Sermon (Remember the spider) (from Kings and the Moon - Kings and Tanists) - H. Lapp [x]
• Seumas Beg (A man was sitting underneath a tree) (from Insurrections) - T. Dobson
• She is the sky of the sun! (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, W. Mourant (Mary Hynes)
• Shepherd, play a little air (Shepherd ! while the lambs do feed) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Stickles
• Shepherd ! while the lambs do feed (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - S. Adler, W. Stickles, P. Taylor (The piper)
• Silvery-black, and silvery-blue (from A Poetry Recital) [x] - A. Bax (Out and away)
• Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree! - S. Barab (Dark wings)
• So early in the morning, O (I cling and swing) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - F. Bridge, G. Gwyther
• Solitude () - M. Bowles [x]
• Spring is singing () - R. Farley [x]
• Stephen's Green (The wind stood up and gave a shout) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
• Still lift up my heart, and sing again (from Songs from the Clay - A Reply)
• Sweet/ and delicate (from Little Things) [x] - D. Parke (Lesbia)
• Sweet apple (At the end of the bough, at the top of the tree) (from Here are Ladies) - H. Spier FRE
• Tanist (Remember the spider) (from Kings and the Moon - Kings and Tanists) [x]
• The buds (Now I can see) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
• The canal bank (I know a girl) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - M. Bowles, D. Parke, A. Strilko
• The cat () - M. Besly, T. Dobson [x]
• The centaurs (Playing upon the hill three centaurs were!) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Busch
• The coolin (Come with me, under my coat) (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, H. Lapp, W. Mourant, D. Parke
• The coolun (Come with me, under my coat) (from Reincarnations)
• The County Mayo (Now with the coming in of the spring) (from Reincarnations) - J. Trimble
• The crooked paths go every way (from Songs from the Clay) - H. Howells, W. Mourant (The goat paths)
• The daisies (In the scented bud of the morning -- O) (from Here are Ladies) - S. Barab, S. Barber, M. Bowles, J. Edmunds, R. Farley, L. Mann, W. Mourant, M. Mulliner, D. Parke, M. Wyrill SPA
• The fifteen acres (I cling and swing) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
• The four old men (In the café where I sit) (from Songs from the Clay) - F. Swain
• The freedom of the sky (Now the winds are riding by) (from Songs from the Clay) - J. Duke
• The goat paths (The crooked paths go every way) (from Songs from the Clay) - H. Howells, W. Mourant
• The hawk (Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree!) - S. Barab
• The hill is bare : I only find (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - E. Cone, T. Dobson, W. Mourant (Katty Gollagher)
• The hill () - C. Taylor [x]
• The king of the fairy men (I know the man without a soul) (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Homer, F. Swain
• The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there (from Reincarnations) - H. Andrews, J. Wilson (Righteous anger)
• The long-rólling (from A Poetry Recital) [x] - A. Duff (The main deep)
• The main deep (The long-rólling) (from A Poetry Recital) - A. Duff [x]
• The market (A man came to me at the fair) (from Songs from the Clay) - C. Gibbs
• The messenger (Bee! tell me whence do you come?) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Taylor
• The moon comes every night to peep (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - E. Bacon, J. Heath, W. Mourant (The white window)
• The moon is shining on the sea (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant, D. Taylor (A song for lovers)
• The Moon (If the Moon had a hand) (from Here are Ladies)
• The mountains stand and stare around (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant (The Paps of Dana)
• The night was creeping on the ground (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - A. Butterworth, W. Mourant (Check)
• The Paps of Dana (The mountains stand and stare around) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
• The piper (Shepherd ! while the lambs do feed) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - S. Adler, P. Taylor
• There always is a noise when it is dark (from Songs from the Clay) - E. Cone (In the night)
• The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree (from Collected Poems) [x] - D. Parke (Christmas at Freelands)
• There was a man was very old (from The Hill of Vision) - W. Mourant (Nothing at all)
• There was a river that rose (from Songs from the Clay) - T. Dobson (At the edge of the sea)
• The rivals (I heard a bird at dawn) (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Barab, M. Bowles, A. Duff, W. Mourant, D. Taylor, R. Teed, L. White
• The rose in the wind (Dip and swing) (from A Poetry Recital) - S. Barab, W. Mourant
• The secret (I was frightened, for a wind) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
• The shell (And then I pressed the shell) (from Insurrections) - W. Mourant
• The sky-like girl whom we knew! (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant (Mary Ruane)
• The sun is always in the sky (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson, W. Mourant (Breakfast time)
• The Tale of Mad Brigid (And then / There rung a bell) (from Insurrections) - W. Mourant
• The voice of God (I bent again unto the ground) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
• The watcher (A rose for a young head) (from Insurrections) - C. Forsyth, B. Treharne
• The white swan (Could you but see her) (from Strict Joy) - M. Bowles [x]
• The white window (The moon comes every night to peep) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - E. Bacon, J. Heath, W. Mourant
• The wind stood up and gave a shout (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - S. Adler, E. Cone, M. Lucas (Stephen's Green)
• The wind (The wind stood up and gave a shout) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - S. Adler, E. Cone, M. Lucas
• The Wood of Flowers (I went to the Wood of Flowers) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - I. Klein
• This way to Winter (Day by day) (from Songs from the Clay) - L. Mann
• Upon the sober sky thy robes are spread (from Songs from the Clay) FRE GER GER ITA - F. May (Hesperus)
• Washed in silver (Gleaming in silver are the hills) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
• Westland Row (Every Sunday there's a throng) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson
• When you walk (In Dublin town the people see) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
• White fields (In the winter children go) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
• Wind and tree (A woman is a branchy tree) (from The Hill of Vision)

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