James Joyce presents 36 poems of a young man's discovery of love, through delicately controlled emotions of poetic writing. These poems have also been great compositional material for songs and works by composers. - Summary by Patty Harden
Chapters
1 Strings in the earth and air 1 min 2 The twilight turns from amethyst To deep 1 min 3 At that hour when all things have repose, 1 min 4 When the shy star goes forth in heaven 1 min 5 Lean out of the window, 1 min 6 I would in that sweet bosom be 1 min 7 My love is in a light attire 1 min 8 Who goes amid the green wood 1 min 9 Winds of May, that dance on the sea, 1 min 10 Bright cap and streamers, 1 min 11 Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, 1 min 12 What counsel has the hooded moon 1 min 13 Go seek her out all courteously, 1 min 14 My dove, my beautiful one, 1 min 15 From dewy dreams, my soul, arise, 1 min 16 O cool is the valley now 1 min 17 Because your voice was at my side 1 min 18 O sweetheart, hear you 1 min 19 Be not sad because all men 1 min 20 In the dark pine-wood 1 min 21 He who hath glory lost, nor hath 1 min 22 Of that so sweet imprisonment 1 min 23 This heart that flutters near my heart 1 min 24 Silently she's combing, 1 min 25 Lightly come or lightly go: 1 min 26 Thou leanest to the shell of night, 1 min 27 Though I thy Mithridates were, 1 min 28 Gentle lady, do not sing 1 min 29 Dear heart, why will you use me so? 1 min 30 Love came to us in time gone by 1 min 31 O, it was out by Donnycarney 1 min 32 Rain has fallen all the day 1 min 33 Now, O now, in this brown land 1 min 34 Sleep now, O sleep now, 1 min 35 All day I hear the noise of waters 1 min 36 I hear an army charging upon the land, 1 min