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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOUCHELLEEN-BAWN, by JOHN BANIM Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And where are you going, bouchelleen-bawn | |||
AND Where are you going, ma bouchelleen-bawn From father and mother so early at dawn Och! rather run idle from evening till dawn. Than darken their threshold, ma bouchelleen-baivn! For there they would tell you, ma bouchelleen-bawn, That the mother whose milk to your heart you have drawn, And the father who prays for you, evening and dawn, Can never be heard for you, bouchelleen-baivn. That the faith we have bled for, from father to son, Since first by a lie our fair valleys were won, And which oft in the desert, our knees to the sod, We kept from them all, for our sons and our God That this was idolatry, heartless and cold, And now grown more heartless because it is old; And for something that's newer they'd ask you to pawn The creed of your fathers, ma bouchelleen-baivn! And now will you go to them, bouchelleen-baivn, From father and mother, so early at dawn? Och! the cloud from your mind let it never be drawn, But cross not their threshold, mabouchdleen-bawn! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IRISH MOTHER IN THE PENAL DAYS by JOHN BANIM DAMON AND PYTHIAS, SELS. by JOHN BANIM DAMON TO THE SYRACUSANS by JOHN BANIM HE SAID THAT HE WAS NOT OUR BROTHER by JOHN BANIM TO MAY HOWARD JACKSON - SCULPTOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GARDEN WIRELESS by CARL SANDBURG WHY I LOVE HER by ALEXANDER BROME DOROTHY'S DOWER by PHOEBE CARY MARRIAGE by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE |
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