Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOORLOCH MARY, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS Poet's Biography First Line: Like swords of battle the scythes were plying Last Line: O moorloch mary, bid the wanderer stay!' Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna | ||||||||
LIKE swords of battle the scythes were plying, The corn lay low in a yellow rout, When down the stubble, dew-wet and glinting, A golden shaft of the sun came out: It was Moorloch Mary, the slender blossom, Who smiled on me in the misty morn, And since that hour I am lost with grieving, Through sleepless nights, and through days forlorn. Oh! Moorloch lies in a world of heather Where Mary's little brown feet go bare, And many a shadowy peak divides us, Yet I will journey to find her there: I will climb the mountains and swim the rivers, I will travel the crests of the heath, wind-blown; Her face in my heart like a star I carry, And it shall guide me unto my own. When I come at last to my Moorloch Mary, I will take her little brown hands in mine, And kiss her lips where the rowans tarry, And kiss her hair where the sun-rays shine, And whisper, 'Astorin, my heart was haunted By wistful eyes of the sweetest grey, That drew it over the hills of Derry -- O Moorloch Mary, bid the wanderer stay!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HILLS O' MY HEART by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS MO CRAOIBHIN CNO (MY CLUSTER OF NUTS - MY BROWN-HAIRED GIRL) by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS NEECE THE RAPPAREE by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS THE LOVE-TALKER by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS THINKIN' LONG by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS TURLOUGH MACSWEENEY by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE by HILAIRE BELLOC THE COMET AT YELL'HAM by THOMAS HARDY JOHN PELHAM by JAMES RYDER RANDALL THE INDIAN'S WELCOME TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 2 by MARK AKENSIDE |
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