Poetry

Question 0

All that delirium of the brave?

Answer 0

September 1913

Question 1

Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone. It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

Answer 1

September 1913

Question 2

Fumble in a greasy till

Answer 2

September 1913

Question 3

You have dried the marrow from the bone

Answer 3

September 1913

Question 4

Some woman’s yellow hair has maddened every mothers son

Answer 4

September 1913

Question 5

I saw the cold and took delighting heaven

Answer 5

The Cold Heaven

Question 6

Riddled with light. Ah!

Answer 6

The Cold Heaven

Question 7

Ice burned

Answer 7

The Cold Heaven

Question 8

With the hot blood of youth, of love crossed long ago

Answer 8

The Cold Heaven

Question 9

By the injustice of the skies for punishment?

Answer 9

The Cold Heaven

Question 10

Those that I fight I do not hate,

Those that I guard I do not love;

Answer 10

An Irish Airman

Question 11

Kiltartans cross… Kiltartans poor

Answer 11

An Irish Airman

Question 12

A lonely impulse of delight

Answer 12

An Irish Airman

Question 13

The years to come seemed waste of breath

Answer 13

An Irish Airman

Question 14

In balance with this life, this death.

Answer 14

An Irish Airman

Question 15

As cold and as passionate as the dawn

Answer 15

The Fisherman

Question 16

Grey place … Grey Connemara clothes

Answer 16

The Fisherman

Question 17

The living men I hate, the dead man that I loved,

Answer 17

The Fisherman

Question 18

Great Art beat down

Answer 18

The Fisherman

Question 19

The nearest kin of the moon

Answer 19

The Cat and the Moon

Question 20

Troubled his animal blood

Answer 20

The Cat and the Moon

Question 21

Tired of that courtly fashion,

A new dance turn.

Answer 21

The Cat and the Moon

Question 22

Alone, important and wise,

Answer 22

The Cat and the Moon

Question 23

And lifts to the changing moon, his changing eyes.

Answer 23

The Cat and the Moon

Question 24

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

Answer 24

The Second Coming

Question 25

Turning in the widening gyre

Answer 25

The Second Coming

Question 26

Mere anarchy is loosed …

The ceremony of innocence is drowned

Answer 26

The Second Coming

Question 27

Surely some revelation is at hand

Answer 27

The Second Coming

Question 28

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Answer 28

The Second Coming

Question 29

By a rocking cradle

Answer 29

The Second Coming

Question 30

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Answer 30

The Second Coming

Question 31

Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

Answer 31

Leda and the Swan

Question 32

A shudder in the loins engenders there

Answer 32

Leda and the Swan

Question 33

Did she put on knowledge with his power

Answer 33

Leda and the Swan

Question 34

Loosening thighs/ thighs caressed

Answer 34

Leda and the Swan

Question 35

Two girls in silk kimonos

Answer 35

In memory

Question 36

Both beautiful, one a gazelle

Answer 36

In Memory

Question 37

Conspiring among the ignorant

Answer 37

In Memory

Question 38

Some vague Utopia

Answer 38

In Memory

Question 39

Dear shadows, now you know it all

Answer 39

In Memory

Question 40

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time

Answer 40

In Memory

Question 41

Bid me strike a match and strike another till time catch

Answer 41

In Memory