My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she…

- Padraic Colum

O woman shapely as a swan.

- Padraic Colum

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

- Padraic Colum

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

- Padraic Colum

O farmer, strong farmer! You can spend at the fair, But your face you must turn To your crops and your care

- Padraic Colum