|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BROKEN SONG, by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE Poet's Biography First Line: Where am I from?' from the green hills of erin Last Line: Where she is gone there I can never go. Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Moira | |||
'Where am I from?' From the green hills of Erin. 'Have I no song then?' My songs are all sung. 'What o' my love?' 'Tis alone I am farin'. Old grows my heart, an' my voice yet is young. 'If she was tall?' Like a king's own daughter. 'If she was fair?' Like a mornin' o' May. When she'd come laughin' 'twas the runnin' wather, When she'd come blushin' 'twas the break o' day. 'Where did she dwell?' Where one'st I had my dwellin'. 'Who loved her best?' There's no one now will know. 'Where is she gone?' Och, why would I be tellin'! Where she is gone there I can never go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CORRYMEELA by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE BEAUTY'S A FLOWER by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE CUTTIN' RUSHES by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE THE GRAND MATCH by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE, DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TO AGE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR SHE CAME AND WENT by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL TO ALEXIS IN ANSWER TO HIS POEM AGAINST FRUITION by APHRA BEHN THE CAPTAIN by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |
|