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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "I AM OF [OR, FROM] IRELAND", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ich am of irlande [irlonde]
Last Line: In irlande
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


"THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are the arrows that murder sleep
Last Line: "as every hour of the night's black deep, / these are the arrows that murder sleep"
Subject(s): "legends, Irish;


1945, by ED LEEFLANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The germans stood together under guard
Last Line: And invulnerability of the grown-ups
Subject(s): Irish Translations


A BARD'S LAMENT OVER HIS CHILDREN, by PADRAIC GREGORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O river of great kings and sons of kings!
Last Line: I lay my blessings on thee with my tears.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


A BIRD FROM THE WEST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At the grey dawn, amongst the falling leaves
Last Line: Oh! Fair the breaking day in ireland now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming; Ireland; Irish


A CATHOLIC TO HIS ULSTER BROTHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there no bond of blood to you, my brother?
Last Line: "lead on! Or follow, o my irish brother."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Catholics; Ireland; Ulster, Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Irish


A DEDICATION, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My land, my erin, can we sing of thee
Last Line: Is rippled weirdly by the mountain flaw.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


A DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas night - the globe was folded up
Last Line: "behold the fighting smith!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish


A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who are old, old and gay
Last Line: If all were told.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fairies; Legends, Irish; Elves


A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood


A SONG OF DEFEAT, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for the lucky warriors
Last Line: And victory less than defeat.
Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish


A SPINNING SONG, by JOHN FRANCIS O'DONNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love to fight the saxon goes
Last Line: Wheel.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Spinning; Irish


A SUPPLICATION, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By our looks of mute despair
Last Line: Kyrie eleison.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lives of frail men are compar'd by the sages
Last Line: For indeed I have ever been true to the crown.
Subject(s): Booth, Sir George (1622-1684); Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Ireland; Travel; Coriate, Thomas; Irish; Journeys; Trips


ABOUT TIME, by LAURENS VANCREVEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dusk the silence by the sea
Last Line: And behind you lay, bestowing, %the night
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ABOUT TIME, by LAURENS VANCREVEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: This silence at the sea's edge, so late in the afternoon
Last Line: The beacon of the night
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept
Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips


ACORN SPEAKS, by THEO SONTROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that father's leaves are falling
Last Line: At my father when he is crooked
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ACROSS THE JABBOK, by GERRIT ACHTERBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I had reached the base
Last Line: Is one short stride
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ADDRESS, by LEONARD NOLENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The others are all from here
Last Line: Let me know if I find it
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ADDRESS AND INVITATION TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To tell you the truth, dear j., I was sorry
Last Line: So come back—pray do—while the heather's in glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Elections; Ireland; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Irish


AFRICAN QUEEN, by WILLEM MAURITS ROGGEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No part of her will fade
Last Line: I see her always
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AFTER AUGHRIM, by ARTHUR GERALD GEOGHEGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you remember long ago
Last Line: "for the green."
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


AFTER DEATH, by FRANCES ISABEL PARNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall mine eyes behold the glory, o my country?
Last Line: "now mine eyes have seen her glory!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Parnell, Fanny
Variant Title(s): Ireland, Oh, My Country!;post Mortem
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


AFTER LIBERATION, by J. C. BLOEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sheer, bright-shining spring, spring as it used to be
Last Line: Now that the waving rye crop skirts the ruins
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ALL SOULS' DAY, by WILLEM JAN OTTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A solitary fly, nice and content
Last Line: And sailing heavenwards is hoovered up
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AMSTERDAM CHRONICLE, by REIN BLOEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: A widow in her late seventies
Last Line: To be put on public display
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AN APPEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spare her, o cruel england!
Last Line: They can die and go to him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): England; Faith; Ireland; Religion; English; Belief; Creed; Irish; Theology


AN APPEAL TO IRELAND, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sin of our race is upon us
Last Line: Through light and through love glorified.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The forward youth that would appear
Last Line: A power must it maintain.
Variant Title(s): Two Kings
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Ireland; Irish


AN IRISH FACE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Not her own sorrow only that place
Last Line: Grow what we dream upon.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Faces; Ireland; Irish


AN IRISH FANTASY, by JOHN FRANKLIN BLUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It so happens that I was born in cork'
Last Line: "it helps us think as we plant we shall reap."
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Trinity, The; Irish


AN IRISH HEADLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair head in antrim, long dark waves of
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ANDROMEDA, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They chained her fair young body to the cold and cruel stone
Last Line: O ireland! O my country! He comes to break thy chain!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ANGELINY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come right hyar, yo' angeliny
Last Line: Tink yo's irish too?
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Blacks; Ireland; Racism; Irish; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time
Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Ireland; Irish


ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND, by WILLEM MAURITS ROGGEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An archaeologist recently %got it totally arse-ways
Last Line: The last remnants of the future
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AS OLD AS THEN, by J. EIJKELBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was reading het leven again
Last Line: I hope to never again become as old as then
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AT A GRAVE, by MARTINUS NIJHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flies and butterflies, children, bees
Last Line: Who dissolved in the light of pure happiness
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AT CURRABWEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every night at currabwee
Last Line: And where the vardar loudly roars?
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Ireland; Irish


AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon is the train I used to take
Last Line: But I go home no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains


AUDIBLE STILL, by J. A. (ADWAITA) DER MOUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Audible still, very very distant, is the night train
Last Line: Nestles itself as a reminder, a slanting organ point
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AUTUMN, by MAURICE GILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A land of old codgers after the summer
Last Line: And everything -- youth, love -- out of reach
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AUTUMN WIND, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always to stand here by the old windows where she lay
Last Line: Autumn wind blows away the rest -- hearing it is unbearable
Subject(s): Irish Translations


AVENGING AND BRIGHT, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of erin
Last Line: Revenge on a tyrant is sweetest of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


BALLAD OF INDOLENCE, by HERMAN DE CONINCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the indolence of lying on the grass
Last Line: Solemnly, solemnly this life ends
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BALOR, by THOMAS BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What fools are men to plough the earth for grain
Subject(s): Balor (king, Irish Mythology)


BASHO I, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old man in the rushes the poet's suspicion
Last Line: Here passed the poet for once and for always
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BASHO II, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know poetical poetry the common dangers
Last Line: So that which disappeared is still like something that disappeared
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BASHO III, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nowhere in this world have I a home
Last Line: The island that embarks for soren across tombstone waves
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BASHO IV, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poet is a pumping-station turning the landscape into
Last Line: I too have been lured by the wind which drives the clouds
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BEATRICE, by HENDRIK JAN MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the fifteenth she was painted
Last Line: Thus it will be
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BEAUTIFUL WORLD, by ALBERT VERWEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every morning after sleep
Last Line: And the threshold between us falls away
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BEGGAR LOVE, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us be tender to each other, dear
Last Line: Let us be tender to each other, dear
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BEING, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: So it came in a dream I was bound
Last Line: Dark the huge voice of the sea
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks
Last Line: Fusillarde of question-marks
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks
Last Line: My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question-marks
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


BIRDS LEAVING, by JOHANNA KRUIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night takes feelings to the window
Last Line: Some have gone without having ever sung
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BIT BY BIT, by HANS FAVEREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bit by bit; thus
Last Line: Without rowers; rowed- %over land all
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have no prairies
Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps; Irish; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


BOMBING, by PAUL RODENKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The town is still
Last Line: Hoist their red flag
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BRILLIANTLY PHILOSOPHISING, by HANNY MICHAELIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brilliantly philosophising %about life I let
Last Line: Unmistakable proof %of emancipation
Subject(s): Irish Translations


BURIED BIRDS, by IDA GERHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are the cliffs of your dream the colour of dawn?
Last Line: The millenium clinging to our feet
Subject(s): Irish Translations


CAMPAIGN, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They had questioned him for hours. Who exactly was he?
Last Line: Drawing pints for strangers, his almost-perfect fingers flecked with scum
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


CARRICK-A-REDE, IRELAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dwelt amid the gloomy rocks
Last Line: A solitary man.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Irish; Loneliness


CARROWMORE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a lonely road through bogland to the lake at carrowmore
Last Line: And the old enchantment lingers in the honey-heart of earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Carrowmore (cemetery, Ireland); Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish


CEDAR, by HANS G. HOEKSTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have planted a cedar in my garden
Last Line: I have planted a cedar in my garden
Subject(s): Irish Translations


CELT, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a voice clang like a brass kettle clanging
Last Line: Things that had been mere history before
Subject(s): History; Ireland; Irish Language


CHIVALRY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I saw that ancient irish queen
Last Line: And I was weeping in the iron age.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Ireland; Irish


CLANN CARTIE, by EGAN O'RAHILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is withered and my health is gone
Last Line: I'd ram thy lamentation down thy neck.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Egan; AodhagÁn Ó Rathaille
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish


CLEANING, by KAREL SOUDIJN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Very cautiously %with her duster
Last Line: The building splits itself laughing
Subject(s): Irish Translations


CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think, or hope at least, the coast is clear
Last Line: But to make wits of fools is past your pow'r.
Subject(s): Fools; Ireland; Sparta, Greece; Idiots; Irish


COAST SCENERY, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: These iron-rifted cliffs, that o'er the deep
Last Line: Its caverned base, the ocean's melancholy thunder?
Subject(s): Ireland; Landscape; Seashore; Irish; Beach; Coast; Shore


COLD LANDSCAPE, by AUGUSTA PEAUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alomost winter, snow in the air
Last Line: Who've lost their way
Subject(s): Irish Translations


COLUMBUS, by JAN JACOB SLAUERHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: His little fleet floated in a trio
Last Line: An impression of space, a sense that the earth is not round
Subject(s): Irish Translations


CONSIDERING TULIPS, by MIEKE TILLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tulips, like americans, %feel they are the romance
Last Line: Theirs is the soul of the nineties
Subject(s): Irish Translations


CORRYMEELA, by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over here in england I'm helpin' wi' the hay
Last Line: Sweet corrymela, an' the same soft rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Moira
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


COWS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Cows; Ireland; Irish


CREDHE'S LAMENT FOR CAIL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o'er thy chief, thy rushing chief, loch da conn"
Last Line: And the sea beasts bellow
Subject(s): "legends, Irish;love;


CREMONA, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grenadiers of austria are proper men and tall
Last Line: "for the evening air is chilly in cremona."
Subject(s): Cremona, Battle Of (1702); Ireland; Irish


CUCHULAIN COMFORTED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish


CUCHULAIN COMFORTED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man
Last Line: They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish


CUCHULAIN'S FIGHT WITH THE SEA, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun
Last Line: And fought with the invulnerable tide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish


DANCER, by MARTINUS NIJHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under my skin there lives a caged beast
Last Line: Or that the broad smile is sucked inwards by an animal
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DAPPER STREET, by J. C. BLOEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nature is only for the smug or the empty
Last Line: Utterly happy in dapper street
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DARK MARGARET, by JOHN FISHER MURRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sit by the fire
Last Line: With a welcome home to mary, you love best.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O my dark rosaleen
Last Line: My dark rosaleen!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel


DEATH OF CUCHULAIN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun
Last Line: For four days warred he with the bitter tide; %and the waves flowed above him, and he died
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish


DEATH, DARK AGENT, by JOTIE T' HOOFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why not simply moonlight on a swirling of leaf?
Last Line: My own late face
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DEATH, DARK DOER, by JOTIE T' HOOFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death, dark doer and soft hand
Last Line: You are still remote enough for me to sing of you
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DECEMBER, by MIRIAM VAN HEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why does she lie to me
Last Line: I had, for this, waited so long
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DECEMBER OFFENSIVE, by CHRISTA WIDLUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the very worst despair is as cold
Last Line: Ground, the wind a whip
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a green branch hung with many a bell
Last Line: And men who loved the cause that never dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Irish Fiction


DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a green branch hung with many a bell
Last Line: On munster grass and connemara skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Irish Fiction


DEEP IN THE PIT, by NEELTJE MARIA MIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep in the pit where her bones lie
Last Line: Places the heavy lid back on the pit
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DEIRDRE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not let any woman read this verse!
Last Line: The friend of that poor queen!
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


DEIRDRE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a story right, my wanderers
Last Line: And letting no boy lover take the sway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


DEPARTURE, by GERRIT ACHTERBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The heart stood at the helm that night
Last Line: Round bow and rigging past the final town
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DIFFERENT, by MARGA KOOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mist hangs of late
Last Line: Less promise %and more regret
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DISCONCERTING OBJECT, by HENDRIK JAN MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had passed it
Last Line: Then he's alone again
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DISTRESS, ITS PLIANCY, by HANS LODEIZEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How lovely the russian lady
Last Line: And listen, listen to what she says
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DONEGAL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bog cotton and whin. A stone
Last Line: Goes up each morning, %singing to penetrate the sun
Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Exiles; Irish Language


DUKE AND I 2, by FRANS DUMORTIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two men were dragging a cart through the woods
Last Line: The woman saw the difference. Cracked
Subject(s): Irish Translations


DUNLANG O'HARTIGAN: LAMENT OF AOIBHELL, THE FAIRY QUEEN, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis my bitter grief and sorrow
Last Line: Dunlang o'hartigan!
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


EGO FLOS: CANTO II, by GUIDO GEZELLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a flower
Last Line: You will let me enter
Subject(s): Irish Translations


EIGHTEEN DEAD, by JAN CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cell is but two metres long
Last Line: When I stand before the guns
Subject(s): Irish Translations


EMPTY ROOM, by HANS ANDREUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The empty room is still the empty room
Last Line: In that light I loved
Subject(s): Irish Translations


EMPTY ROOM, by HANS ANDREUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The empty room is still the empty room
Last Line: Once more in the light which I have loved
Subject(s): Irish Translations


EN PASSANT, by EDITH COURTENAY BABBITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dozen pencils, yellow, green, and blue
Last Line: "the saints befriend you, lady!"" ""and you, sir."
Subject(s): Ireland; Peddlers & Peddling; Irish


EPIPHANY, by CRHISTINE D'HAEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hot ice shoots (it seems) through
Last Line: Routinely come to life routinely die
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ERIN, O ERIN!, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the bright lamp that shone in kildare's holy fane
Last Line: And the hope that lived through it shall blossom at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Erin, Oh Erin
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


EVENING, by WILLEM KLOOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hardly visible they rock, on a sigh of light
Last Line: Louder still, and will not rest
Subject(s): Irish Translations


EXILE OF ERIN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came to the beach a poor exile of erin
Last Line: Erin mavourneen, erin go bragh!
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


EXILE! EXILE!, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the room breathes out its grief
Subject(s): Ireland; United States; Irish; America


EXPECTATION, by IDA GERHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did you know it too all night long?
Last Line: The first couple of a thosand ages
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FAIRIES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden-poet, come with me
Last Line: Innocent and overgrown?
Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Elves


FAREWELL, by ADRIAAN MORRIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will you take care?
Last Line: Will you take care?
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FAREWELL TO ENGLISH, by MICHAEL HARTNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her eyes were coins of porter and her west
Subject(s): English Language; Irish Language


FAREWELL TO IRELAND, by COLUMCILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas for the voyage, o high king of heaven
Last Line: Thou waterful land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Columba
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


FARMER, by KEES OUWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was day. I felt I had to leave the village. I did. Before long
Last Line: But which brought me to %tears
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FATA MORGANA IN FLANDERS, by WILLEM MAURITS ROGGEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Birds suddenly dropped dead
Last Line: The sun shone on my face. %I blinked
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FEBRUARY SUN, by PAUL RODENKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again the world opens up like a girl's room
Last Line: Of the first spring wind
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FEVER TUNE, by KAREL VAN DE WOESTIJNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's sad that it rains in the autumn
Last Line: It's sad that it rains in the autumn
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FINAL SIGNS, by LENZE L. BOUWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The final signs are weariness and might
Last Line: The final signs are weariness and might
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FISHERMAN FROM MA YUAN, by LUBERTUS J. SWAANSWIJK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under clouds birds sail
Last Line: But in the meantime rests the fisherman
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FLOWERS, by LEO VROMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If everyone decided to be flowers
Last Line: If people, say, wake up to being flowers
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FOR SOME FUTURE DAY, by HANS ANDREUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I die tomorrow
Last Line: That a human loved a human %as I you
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FRIENDSHIP FOR A WOMAN OF GRACE, by JAN GRESHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friendship for a woman of grace
Last Line: Above airy promises of other worlds
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FROM THE LUSITANIAN VARIANT, by H. C. TEN BERGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fortunes in knee breeches
Last Line: I had wanted to go hunt %partridges before nightfall
Subject(s): Irish Translations


FUTILE POEM, by REMCO CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way you move
Last Line: No poetry will ever fall silent
Subject(s): Irish Translations


GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing
Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language


GIVING WAY, by JOHANNA KRUIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What one wants from a letter is not an answer
Last Line: Glistened against a wall
Subject(s): Irish Translations


GOODBYE, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goodbye to tree and tower
Last Line: My last goodbye.
Subject(s): Farewell; Ireland; Parting; Irish


GRAINNE: AFTER THE DEATH OF DIARMUID, by CATHAL O'BYRNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth from the twilight of a wood she came
Last Line: Deep in the inmost core of her lone heart.
Subject(s): Legends, Irish; Love - Loss Of


HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ebb like the ocean
Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Women's Rights; Gaelic; Feminism


HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ebb like the ocean
Last Line: That's all you get to blunt your knife
Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry And Poets; Translating And Interpreting; Women's Rights


HAVE WE DONE WELL FOR IRELAND?, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O country, writhing in thy chain
Last Line: To soothe thee -- fated ireland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
Last Line: And lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Legends, Irish


HELEN'S TOWER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hears of helen's tower, may dream
Last Line: When all the morning-stars together sang.
Subject(s): Ireland; Sheridan, Helen Selina (1807-1867); Irish; Dufferin, Lady; Gifford, Lady


HELEN'S TOWER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen's tower, here I stand
Last Line: In earth's recurring paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Ireland; Sheridan, Helen Selina (1807-1867); Irish; Dufferin, Lady; Gifford, Lady


HER SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly
Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed.
Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs


HERITAGE, by MARIE BLAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why should the mountains confuse me with rapture?
Last Line: The green hills of ireland call me again!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


HOLLAND, by HENDRIK MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky overpowering, grey; beneath it
Last Line: Then evaporate like mist or a cloud
Subject(s): Irish Translations


HOLY WELL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll drink if I can find it
Last Line: Ordinary: a wren entrusting %an egg to a saint's hand
Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Catholic Church; Miracles


HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn
Last Line: That call across the world to me.
Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War


HOME THOUGHTS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If will had wings / how fast I'd flee
Last Line: Where my own love dwells.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Ireland; Irish


HONEYSUCKLE, by J. C. BLOEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't think about the house much
Last Line: Dewfall on a summer evening?
Subject(s): Irish Translations


HOSPITALITY IN ANCIENT IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh king of stars! / whether my house be dark
Last Line: "but jesus, mary's son"
Subject(s): Hospitality;ireland; Irish


HOUSE BY THE SEA, by JOHANNA KRUIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house in the long ago
Last Line: As though it knows of something leavetaking
Subject(s): Irish Translations


HYENA, by CEES BUDDINGH'    Poem Source                    
First Line: Modern science has destroyed his reputation
Last Line: How's life abusing you, coz.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I, by JAN ARENDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I %write poems %like thin trees
Last Line: You need %few %words
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I AM BRAHMAN, by J. A. (ADWAITA) DER MOUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am brahman. But we're stuck for a maid
Last Line: In me for sun, bach, kant, and her callous fingers
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I AM THE HAZEL-NUT, by KAREL VAN DE WOESTIJNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the hazel-nut. An anaemic worm
Last Line: Fathoms my hollowness. I resonate. I sing
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I GREET YOU, by JAN GRESHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I greet you, friend and neighbour
Last Line: Still hell-bent on this woeful life
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I HAVE, by JAN ARENDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have %a house
Last Line: Will hang himself later
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I REEL OFF, by LUBERTUS J. SWAANSWIJK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I reel off a little revolution
Last Line: And I fall and I rustle and I sing
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I WAS ABOUT THREE YEARS OF AGE, by HANNY MICHAELIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was about three years of age
Last Line: Which destroy drastically %a promising view
Subject(s): Irish Translations


I WHO WAS BORN, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I who was born
Last Line: A dying in you
Subject(s): Irish Translations


IDIOT IN THE BATH, by M. DROOGLEEVER FORTUYN-LEENSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With hunched-up shoulders, eyes shut tight
Last Line: Once more to remain a frightened idiot
Subject(s): Irish Translations


IF JUST FOR ONCE, by TOON TELLEGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If just for once for just one day I could be a hippopotamus
Last Line: And cherish your slender body against my enormous grey trunk
Subject(s): Irish Translations


IF ONLY, by HERMAN DE CONINCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: If only I could be, just a little, sick again
Last Line: If only I could have held them, before the end
Subject(s): Irish Translations


IN IRELAND: 2. BY THE POOL AT THE THIRD ROSES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the sighing of the reeds
Last Line: Is crying to come back again?
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IN IRELAND: 3. BY LOUGH-NA-GAR: GREEN LIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of the world is of gold
Last Line: That is old as the earth is old.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IN IRELAND: 4. BY LOUGH-NA-GAR: RAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into a land of wandering rain
Last Line: A voice crying from far away.
Subject(s): Ireland; Rain; Irish


IN IRELAND: 5. IN THE WOOD OF FINVARA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears
Last Line: And the peace that is not in the world has flown to me.
Subject(s): Forests; Ireland; Woods; Irish


IN THE SERVICE OF THE WHEEL, by HANS FAVEREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the service of the wheel
Last Line: In the service of the wheel
Subject(s): Irish Translations


IN THE YEARS OF SARSFIELD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I were over the curlew mountains
Last Line: "^2^ macaulay's ""history of england,"" ch. Xvii."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan; War; Irish


INIS FAL, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now may we turn aside and dry our tears!
Last Line: Remains to us of all that was our own.
Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish


INSTRUMENT, by GERRIT ACHTERBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: That night machines stood in the dark
Last Line: And bottomless against the morning-light
Subject(s): Irish Translations


INVASION, by CHRISTA WIDLUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the bare slope, wind in my hair
Last Line: Till you die, until you die
Subject(s): Irish Translations


INVOCATION OF PEACE; AFTER THE GAELIC, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep peace I breathe into you
Last Line: Peace! Peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Language; Peace; Prayer; Gaelic


IRELAND, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland, o ireland! Centre of my longings
Last Line: Keep me in remembrance, long leagues apart.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland never was contented
Last Line: Emeralds big as half the county.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I called you by sweet names by wood and linn
Last Line: In such a distant clime.
Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Patriotism; Irish


IRELAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire in her ashes ireland feels
Last Line: When solid with high heart stand these.
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Irish


IRELAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the dream of a god
Last Line: I have left you at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND - 1915, by BRUCE PORTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not sleep the night
Last Line: You are grown old with dreaming.
Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish


IRELAND WEEPING, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON (1808-1870)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Utmost island of europe, loveliest land
Last Line: Foxes stretched without breath, and their blood humming on the ground!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND'S VENGEANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is thy day, thy day of all the years
Last Line: Vengeance, to love them. Be that vengeance thine!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, 1847, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woes of ireland are too deep for verse
Last Line: Give back its suffe'rings to the sphere of song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, IRELAND, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down thy valleys, ireland, ireland
Last Line: Ireland, ireland, green and sad.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND: INVOCATION, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On your keening waters like gray eyes tear-misted
Last Line: Ireland!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND; A SEASIDE PORTRAIT, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A great, still shape, alone
Last Line: "fields without walls that all the people own!"
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


IRELAND; WRITTEN FOR THE ART AUTOGRAPH DURING IRISH FAMINE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heartsome ireland, winsome ireland
Last Line: Baltimore, 1880.
Subject(s): Famine; Ireland; Irish


IRIS, by JACQUES PERK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born out of sun-rays
Last Line: Yet smiles lovingly when he is in pain!'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


IRISH, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and mother were irish
Last Line: For it is irish, too.
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; Irish


IRISH INTERIOR, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman sits and spins. She makes no sound
Subject(s): Spinning; Ireland; Irish


IRISH SHEEP, by JOB DEGENAAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around the dried-up bay the road
Last Line: Munching away the day
Subject(s): Irish Translations


KATE KEARNEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why doth the maiden turn away
Last Line: And pine, the victims of a dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Legends, Irish


KATHALEEN NY-HOULAHAN (IRELAND); A JACOBITE RELIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "long they pine in weary woe, the nobles of our land"
Last Line: May he show forth his might in saving kathleen ny-houlahan
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


KEENE; OR, LAMENT OF AN IRISH MOTHER OVER HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkly the cloud of night comes rolling on
Last Line: Silent and dark!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Ireland; Lament; Mothers & Sons; Irish


KING CORMAC'S CROWN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Prince cormac sheathed his sharpest sword
Last Line: Sate dead at the his banquet board!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


LAMENT FOR BANBA, by EGAN O'RAHILLY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O my land! O my love!
Last Line: James clarence mangan.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Egan; AodhagÁn Ó Rathaille
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


LAMENT FOR THE TYRONIAN AND TYRCONNELLIAN PRINCES BURIED AT ROME, by OWEN ROE MAC AN BHAIRD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O woman of the piercing wail
Last Line: The blood of conn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Owen Roe Mac Ward
Subject(s): Escapes; Ireland; Lament; O'donnell, Rory (1575-1608); Fugitives; Irish


LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting on the stile, mary
Last Line: When first you were my bride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady
Variant Title(s): The Irish Immigrant
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Mourning; Dead, The; Irish; Bereavement


LAMENT OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH EXILE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I want to win me hame
Last Line: Ancient history began.
Subject(s): Exiles; Ireland; Lament; Irish


LANDSCAPE, by JOHANNA KRUIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything has a place
Last Line: Leaving such a blank behind
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LANDSCAPE, by HENDRIK MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Animals in the pastures
Last Line: With wavy tails %over wavy grass
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LANDSCAPE, by HANNIE ROUWELER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The landscape as it stood
Last Line: Closer to the source
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LANDSCAPE, by PAUL VAN OSTAYEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The full moon creates a crystalpath
Last Line: Of the one form %light
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LAST DAY, by MARTINUS NIJHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: They seized him while his friends were asleep
Last Line: It is consummated! His head slumped onto his chest
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LAST LETTER, by BERTUS AAFJES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world was full of peaceful sounds
Last Line: He wrote: my love, this war has not yet begun
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LEINSTER, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I try to knead and spin, but my life is low the while
Last Line: The foolishness is on me, and the wild tears fall!
Variant Title(s): Irish Peasant Song
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


LIGHT, by MARTINUS NIJHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light, god's white light, breaks up into colours
Last Line: These are the activities for which I became man
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LITTLE MOTHER, by GUIDO GEZELLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of you %my, little mother
Last Line: In me, honourably %die in me
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LONELY NIGHT, by P. C. BOUTENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your eyes were not there
Last Line: From this beautiful life
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LOSS, by JUDITH HERZBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up on the mountaintop the chambermaid puts
Last Line: And falls, rustling on old shellac records
Subject(s): Irish Translations


LOUD SHOUT THE FLAMING TONGUES OF WAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud shout the flaming tongues of war
Last Line: Shall we unite in servitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; War; Irish


MACHA, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Macha, the ice age
Subject(s): Legends, Irish


MAYO, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a wide sea flowing and a deep river going
Last Line: Over your shining plains, mayo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Mayo (county), Ireland; Sea; Travel; Irish; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


MEMORY OF HOLLAND, by HENDRIK MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinking of holland %I picture broad rivers
Last Line: Of more catastrophes %heard and heeded
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MEMORY OF THE IRISH DEAD, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Who fears to speak of ninety-eight?
Last Line: Like those of ninety-eight!
Variant Title(s): The Men Of 'ninety-eight;the Memory Of The Dead
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions; Patriotism; Liberty; Irish


MESSAGE ABOUT THE TIMES, by REMCO CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look, I don't speak the language
Last Line: Are they on fire?
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MO CRAOIBHIN CNO (MY CLUSTER OF NUTS - MY BROWN-HAIRED GIRL), by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sword of light hath pierced the dark, our eyes have seen the star
Last Line: Mo craoibhin cno!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


MOLE, by CRHISTINE D'HAEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth which I breathe in the heavy night
Last Line: Horses, deer with antlers, nightingales
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When morag of the glen was fey
Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MORNING, by JUDITH HERZBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mists disappear, the water
Last Line: A hellish noise, even your eternal nightingale'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MOTHER, by ALPHONS J. DE RIDDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother, I cannot endure
Last Line: That you won't catch a cold and will be content
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MOTHER IRELAND, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


MOTHER'S MARK, by JANA BERANOVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lark %sings the night to fragments
Last Line: And come down a peg or two
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MR MACANDREW WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have put aside all thoughts of helping these people
Last Line: Servant, reverend george macandrew of dumblane
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Clergy; Irish Language; Prayer; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland)


MUD-FLAT, by WILLEM JAN OTTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where are all the fussy waders
Last Line: Are now these small, shivering ponds
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MUD-FLAT, by WILLEM JAN OTTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only a few hours ago the water with its hooves
Last Line: Through its skin, where wind touches the water
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MUSICIAN, by MARTINUS NIJHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The one who played tunes, nights under the limetrees
Last Line: Having seen god face to face
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MY BROTHER, by HENDRIK DE VRIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother, you suffered
Last Line: Lies once more close %against encircling elms.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MY MOTHER HAS FORGOTTEN MY NAME, by NEELTJE MARIA MIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother has forgotten my name
Last Line: For those I love, I want to be named
Subject(s): Irish Translations


MY NATIVE LAND, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It chanced to me upon a time to sail
Last Line: Is my poor land, the niobe of isles.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


NATIONAL PRESAGE, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy erin, what a lot was thine!
Last Line: They know not what -- but surely something great.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


NEW SWEATER, by KEES OUWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the shade of a wall
Last Line: Think so much but the thoughtlessness in my sweater %oppressed me
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NEW VERSES FOR JUNE 7, 1951, by JAN HANLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You mean josie with the small eyes?
Last Line: No, josie, that josie, who loves to be with me
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NIGHT VISIT, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Next time she came when the moon was windblown
Last Line: Words of light and sound I set down now, bright wonders
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NO, NO, NANETTE, by K. SCHIPPERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tea for two, before the war
Last Line: The next one brought my mum
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NOCTURN, by HERMAN VAN DEN BERGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon rows burning
Last Line: Weak and skittish: %pan's pipes
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NORTH WIND, by FREDERIK WILLEM VAN EEDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind blows high above the people's heads
Last Line: But soar singing into the cold night
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NORTH-SEA, by ALBERT VERWEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The murky water of the north-sea
Last Line: How my heart pounds with new, with eternal life
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NOS GLORIEUX MORTS, by J. EIJKELBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The school is long closed down
Last Line: With bador jules, victime civile
Subject(s): Irish Translations


NOTHING OF ALL THAT, by JAN G. ELBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way sailors sing
Last Line: I'm afraid the poet knows nothing
Subject(s): Irish Translations


O'CONNOR'S CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sleep of storms is dark upon the skies
Last Line: The tempest, and the desert, and the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


OARS HEAVY WITH SEAWEED, by KAREL VAN DE WOESTIJNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oars, heavy with seaweed, at rest in humid mists
Last Line: Loneliness like a lead weight dragging me under
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ODE TO J. S. BUCKINGHAM, M.P.; ON REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DRUNKEDNESS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mr. Buckingham, if I may take
Last Line: Are not so much more temperate than others.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Ireland; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Irish; Prohibition


ODE TO SINGER, by PAUL VAN OSTAYEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swing %singer %sewingmachine %hear
Last Line: Singer's sewing machine is the best
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ODE: IN A FEW HOURS, by HANS LODEIZEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To make a bit of music
Last Line: Fingers %darkness and kisses
Subject(s): Irish Translations


OF MOIRA UP THE GLEN, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's little that I'd care for the glories of ireland
Last Line: The lovely unfolding of dream-purged desire.
Subject(s): Doves; Ireland; Irish


OF THE WARS IN IRELAND, by JOHN HARRINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I praise the speech, but cannot now abide it
Last Line: I shall forever love my home the better.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John
Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish


OFF THE IRISH COAST, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gulls on the wind
Last Line: Ever for love that stung?
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Gulls; Ireland; Love; Seagulls; Irish


OLD HOUSES IN THE QUAYS, by AUGUSTA PEAUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: As light-shy owls stare into the sun
Last Line: Dark, hulking beasts
Subject(s): Irish Translations


OLD IN OVERIJSSEL, by RENE VAN RIESSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two on one moped, leather-coated
Last Line: Their daughters turned out fine
Subject(s): Irish Translations


OLD IRELAND, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty
Last Line: Moves to-day in a new country.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


OLD MYTHOLOGIES, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, at last, all proud deeds done
Last Line: Wolfhounds, lean as models, %at their urgent heels
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


ON BAILE'S STRAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a clever man you are though you are blind!
Last Line: [they go out.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish


ON BEHALF OF SOME IRISHMEN NOT FOLLOWERS OF TRADITION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They call us aliens, we are told
Last Line: The golden heresy of truth.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Liberty; Irish


ON BEING OUT-CLASSED BY CLASS, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where I came from is torn down
Last Line: Up art! Up the I.R.A.!
Subject(s): Immigrants: Irish-americans


ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor
Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads!
Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish


ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD TOWNSMAN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young he left thee, poor he left thee
Last Line: His will haunt the liffey shore.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ON THE DEATH OF CUCHULAINN, by THOMAS BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The last of the mighty deeds of the son of sualitim
Subject(s): Cuchulainn (irish Mythology); Death; Dead, The


ONCE ALIEN HERE, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once alien here my fathers built their house
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ONTOLOGY, by R. H. VAN DEN HOOFDAKKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I think of me
Last Line: In a sweetshop window
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ORIGINS, by LEONARD NOLENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come from a family of businessmen, teachers, priests
Last Line: The priests teach me to pray until he exists
Subject(s): Irish Translations


OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of him that I loved
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Irish


OUTSIDE IN THE OPEN, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: He slammed the door shut. From under trees
Last Line: Together; they hardly remembered his name
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PADDY'S ODE TO THE PRINCE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mighty prince!
Last Line: Remimber poor ould erin.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


PARADISE REGAINED', by HENDRIK MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun and the sea have erupted, sheet-lightning
Last Line: We shall return to paradise'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PARANOIA, by LEONARD NOLENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say that poets should keep their tongue in check
Last Line: With balls, therfore, as pavese said, and he gulped his death
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PARK, by THEO SONTROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paper arks drift on a concrete lake
Last Line: As a homeless noah starts breaking bread
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PARK OF THE DEAD, by GERRIT KOMRIJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We strolled at night through the gardens
Last Line: Now and then there was a cry from an urn
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PENTECOST, by GERRIT ACHTERBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eat the fire of the lord
Last Line: God greets himself through you
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PHASES OF THE CELTIC REVIVAL, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erin aboo! Though the desolate ocean
Last Line: Tread, if you dare, on the tail of my coat!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


PHENOMENON, by JOB DEGENAAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes love comes, %from the deep it arises
Last Line: Sun's wide-open arms
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PLACE AND DATE, by LEONARD NOLENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in belgium, I am belgian
Last Line: In me, in me comes to maturity
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POEMS FROM NORTHERN IRELAND: 5. NORTHERN IRELAND QUESTION, by DESMOND EGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two wee girls %were playing tig near a car
Last Line: Are worth their scattered fingers?
Subject(s): Irish Unification Question


POET, by GERRIT KOMRIJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the literary journal
Last Line: And from that wished to make a living!
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POET DIVES, by WILLEM JAN OTTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Past. No matter how poised the shape
Last Line: Watches me, look! How I toss my hair
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POETIC LICENSE, by LEONARD NOLENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between two fears, that is, between two loves
Last Line: With my most absent face
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POGROM, by ED HOORNIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is that the moon, nearing its final quarter
Last Line: -- it's but ten hours by train to berlin
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POLDERLAND, by HENDRIK MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brightness of rain wavering
Last Line: Into the far morning
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POLDERLAND, by HENDRIK MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk through the polders
Last Line: I walk towards morning %in watery moonlight
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POLISH GIRL STANDING ON A CHAIR, by W. H. NAGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine a girl from poland
Last Line: Of the wrong german gentleman.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


POST HEADS, by JOHANNA KRUIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: That posts dwell at times in water and, lifeless themselves
Last Line: What's been taken away won't ever be forgotten
Subject(s): Irish Translations


PRAYERS I SAW ASCEND, by BERTHA L. GIBBONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never saw a prayer ascend to god
Last Line: But many a prayer I saw ascend to god.
Subject(s): Ireland; Prayer; Irish


PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND, by ALDFRITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found in innisfail the fair
Last Line: From the irish. Tr. James clarence mangan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ealdfrith; Eahfrith
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips


QUATRAIN, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're snug as a bug in a heated house
Last Line: Kiss-my-arse locusts. Webs poverty weaves
Subject(s): Irish Translations


RED HANRAHAN'S SONG ABOUT IRELAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over cummen strand
Last Line: Is cathleen, the daughter of houlihan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): The Song Of Red Hanrahan
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


REGENERATION, by LEO VROMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every poem %that comes
Last Line: Looms a fully complete %worried paranoid %vroman
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REGIME, by KAREL SOUDIJN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a flurry of zeal
Last Line: The structure falls apart
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REGINA MENDOSENA, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm regina mendosena, queen of all of shanty town
Last Line: For I lay aside me titles and me very ancient name.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ireland; Nationalism - Ireland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Irish


REJECTED GIFT, by IDA GERHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In winter, with dusk enshrouding the town
Last Line: As much life now as she lived through then.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REJECTED GIFT, by IDA GERHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was winter and already dusky in town
Last Line: You were there too. Even now that she lives no more.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REMEMBERING THE NIGHT FOUNTAINS, by THEO VAN DOESBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In light metal coverings the moon falls on my face
Last Line: And drink with set jaws the green blood of god
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REMEMBRANCE DAY, by IDA GERHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The names of the dead
Last Line: And the metal wires
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REMEMBRANCE DAY, by IDA GERHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The names of the fallen
Last Line: Almost, and metal wires
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REQUIESCAT, by LEO ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a warm gust strokes young poplars
Last Line: Like pink blossom in a blue breeze
Subject(s): Irish Translations


REQUIESCAT, by LEO ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: While sweet breezes were stroking the young poplars
Last Line: Pink blossoms twisting in the blue wind
Subject(s): Irish Translations


RETURNING, by WALTER VAN DE LAAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: There she looms on the golden path
Last Line: Back in; there is warmth yet in her waters
Subject(s): Irish Translations


RIVERS OF IRELAND, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ne thence the irishe rivers absent were
Last Line: To doe their dueful service, as to them befell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Ireland; Rivers; Irish


ROISIN DUBH; OR, THE BLEEDING HEART, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O who art thou with that queenly brow
Last Line: "through ghostly might."
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


RUBBISH BAGS, by WALTER VAN DE LAAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way they wait there
Last Line: Parents waiting for the bus
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SAINT VITUS'S DANCE IN OCTOBER 10, by LEONARD NOLENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have to be healthy to stretch a cord
Last Line: Those insubstantial objects, this self-assured pain
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SEAGULLS, by JUDITH HERZBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gull shrieks guided us
Last Line: & feathers. Thus the gulls rose to the hold
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SED NON FRUSTRA, by ANTON KORTEWEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You may have heard
Last Line: That's how I appeared %unshaved, no beard
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SELF-TRANSFORMATION, by WILLEM KLOOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Too much have I been a mere man
Last Line: Of poems, gentle, simple, detached
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SEUMAS BEG, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man was sitting underneath a tree
Last Line: He was a real nice man! He liked me too!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SHOAL OF SILVER ANGELFISH, by EDWARD B. KOSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A shoal of silver angelfish
Last Line: Red lights stand leering
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SHOWER, by JACOB WINKLER PRINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The passing clouds roll grimly on
Last Line: Shears clover, cool and dripping wet
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SICK MAN, by EDGAR DU PERRON    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the worst part of four years
Last Line: Everyone can now get lost. %myself included
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SIGN OF THE TIMES, by REMCO CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look, I don't speak the language
Last Line: Are they on fire or what?
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SILENT TIME, by HANNIE ROUWELER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silence aimlessly %floating on dead water
Last Line: And breaks and cleaves
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SILVER TALK, by REMCO CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silver chatter in parks
Last Line: Sentences twirling like parasols
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is december in wicklow
Subject(s): Ireland; Winter; Irish


SKATER, by HESTER KNIBBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again the lake is a pretty catchphrase
Last Line: Just like the skater -- riding out of sight
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SKIM-MILK, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A small part only of my grief I write
Last Line: In cormac uasail mac donagh of the golden hair!
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Irish


SO SOON, by MIEKE TILLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So soon, so tired
Last Line: On your cheek %so soon
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SO SOON, by MIEKE TILLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So soon -- so without tomorrow
Last Line: Now friday is in your cheeks
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SOGGARTH AROON, by JOHN BANIM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the slave they say
Last Line: Soggarth aroon!
Subject(s): Ireland; Service; Irish


SOLDIER WHO CRUCIFIED JESUS, by MARTINUS NIJHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hammered him to the cross. His fingers grabbed
Last Line: He has driven a nail through my hand.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SOLILOQUY OF THE IRISH POET, by VICKI HEARNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My singing moves the wind, the seaking of swift horses
Last Line: Threads inside the seams, binding him, freeing me
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish Language; Poetry And Poets


SOME BIOGRAPHICAL DATA, by CEES BUDDINGH'    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes he steps out with the class
Last Line: Now we'll never meet again
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SOME TEARS, by KEES OUWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I thought about you, some tears came to mind
Last Line: What I was going to do was at last going to happen
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SOMETIMES, by J. EIJKELBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I must smell that sulphur pit
Last Line: Pant. But later, soon, not now. %not just now
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SONG, by HANS ANDREUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All roocoogirls %of this evening
Last Line: Just dream of yesyesyes
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SONG FOR JULY 12TH, 1843, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come! Pledge again thy heart and hand
Last Line: And we for one another.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


SONG OF INNISFAIL, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came from a land beyond the sea
Last Line: Our great forefathers trod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SONG OF THE ALPINE HUNTER, by PAUL VAN OSTAYEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man goes down the street
Last Line: As is the right of a proper gentleman
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SONGS OF OUR LAND, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Songs of our land, ye are with us for ever
Last Line: Shall glory and live in the songs of our land.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SONNET, by WILLEM KLOOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a god in the depths of my thought
Last Line: Of kisses, where I'd be lost from words
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SONNET BY A SAXON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O blarney! Blarney, wonder-working
Last Line: How end my sonnet?—echo answers—blarney!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SOTTO VOICE, by M. DROOGLEEVER FORTUYN-LEENSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So many kinds of sadness
Last Line: Poor and ashamed to be poor
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SOUL AND LOVE, by ALBERT VERWEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Should you ever forsake me
Last Line: My love! Which waits for you.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SOUVENIR, by PAUL VAN OSTAYEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's nightfall and between two grey facades
Last Line: As beautiful as a deer upon a rock
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered / a place as kind as it is green
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Irish


SPRING FLOWERS FROM IRELAND, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the letters rustling fold
Last Line: And think the violet eyes thine own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence
Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Irish


SPRING LANDSCAPE, by AUGUSTA PEAUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: They stood so still the leafless trees
Last Line: Past trees, as if past cages
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SPRING SONG: TO IRELAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep no more, heart of my heart, no more
Last Line: And the spring—the spring is here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; Irish


ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seems to me st. Patrick's day
Last Line: And blossoms sleep beneath the snow.
Subject(s): Green (color); Ireland; March (month); St. Patrick's Day; Irish


ST. PATRICK'S DAY WARNING, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: St. Patrick drove from ireland
Last Line: And may the saints preserve you.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Saints; Irish


STEPPING OUT WITH EDVARD MUNCH, by ELMA VAN HAREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When from the other world you
Last Line: Body of your beloved, warning you %'handle with care'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


STEPPING OUT WITH EDVARD MUNCH, by ELMA VAN HAREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When from the virile grave
Last Line: Into whose night you must sink like frozen water
Subject(s): Irish Translations


STRAND AT LOUGH BEG, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaving the white glow of filling stations
Last Line: With rushes that shoot green again, I plait %green scapulars to wear over your shroud
Subject(s): Irish Unification Question


STROLL TO PARFONDEVAL, by REMCO CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind sways over my face
Last Line: Could strike my mood down
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SUN ON MY HAND, by BERT VOETEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Writing with the sun on my hand
Last Line: Thirsting above a sea of language
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SUN ON MY HAND, by BERT VOETEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun lights my hand writing
Last Line: Returns everything to the sea of language
Subject(s): Irish Translations


SUNDAY, by J. C. BLOEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silence, now the bells are still
Last Line: Been noisy between the two silences
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TALES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often at sea, when fishing nets are down
Last Line: Still keep their fairies singing on the weirs.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ireland; Sailing & Sailors; Anglers; Irish; Seamen; Sails


THAT APRIL MORNING, by PATRICIA LASOEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That april morning %when my father died
Last Line: Made the dead face deader still
Subject(s): Irish Translations


THE ABBOT OF INISFALEN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The abbot of inisfalen / awoke ere dawn of day
Last Line: From ancient woods arise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Legends, Irish


THE ARREST (1881), by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither, terence mulligan, and sit upon the floor
Last Line: The government then will let him out from black kilmainham gaol!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Ireland; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Prisons & Prisoners; Irish; Convicts


THE BANSHEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sat beside the haunted stream
Last Line: But mac caura's boast and mac caura's pride / is faded and lost forever
Subject(s): Banshees;ireland; Irish


THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye genii of the nation
Last Line: And ended the shaloo on the shannon shore.
Subject(s): Ireland; Limerick, Battle Of (1690); Irish


THE BIRTH OF IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "with due condescension, I'd call your attention to what I shall mention of erin"
Last Line: "for drinking and beauty, for fighting and love"
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE CALL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The unforgotten voices call at twilight
Last Line: They will not give me peace at dawn and twilight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ireland; Loss; Memory; Voices; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish


THE CELTIC CROSS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through storm and fire and gloom
Last Line: When erin's self is drown'd.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE CHARIOT OF CUCHULLIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the car, light moving, I behold"
Last Line: "of the wild chafer's dark-brown hues, / the color that his flanks imbues"
Subject(s): "animals;horses;legends, Irish;


THE CHOICE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This consul casement - he who heard the cry
Last Line: And banshee cries upon far irish hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Ireland; Irish


THE CHRISTENIN', by PRIAM [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on the plains of tooraneedin, where the rabbits keep on breedin'"
Last Line: He's the one and only christian pig in all the countryside
Alternate Author Name(s): Priam
Subject(s): Baptism;christianity;ireland;pigs; Christenings;irish;boars;hogs


THE COMING OF NIAMH, by JAMES HENRY COUSINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly, as comes a wind across the sea
Last Line: Enthroned in vast, unutterable peace.
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can have made the grey hen flutter so?
Last Line: The darkness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE COUNTY OF MAYO, by THOMAS LAVELLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: On the deck of patrick lynch's boat I sat in woeful plight
Last Line: And I sailing, sailing swiftly from the county of mayo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Flavell, Thomas; Lavell, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE DARK PALACE (THE PALACE OF AILEACH, SEAT OF THE O'NEILL), by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There beams no light from thy hall to-night
Last Line: Out of aileach neid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE DARK ROSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though all my loves of old have passed away
Last Line: The wind from over your mountains troubles me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Love; Nature; Irish


THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the harp, old minstrel, you have sung of / vanished things
Last Line: For ireland at the dawning of the day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Fables; Ireland; Allegories; Irish


THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All the dead kings came to me
Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War


THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish


THE DEATH OF LEAG, CUCHULAIN'S CHARIOTEER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I only heard the loud ebb on the sand
Last Line: "they come to you with sleep."
Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland; Mythology; Heroes; Heroines; Irish


THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ireland's cities, one by one, beneath the orange brand
Last Line: Is doomed to perish by our love and sorrow unredeemed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan; Irish


THE DEER-STONE; A LEGEND OF GLENDALOUGH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the bride of colman dhu
Last Line: Where once the milk had been.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Legends, Irish


THE DEVIL'S WALK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, early in the morning
Last Line: Bloodless as his coward soul.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE DOWNFALL OF THE GAEL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is in woe
Last Line: "unite, oh, unite! / or the billows burst o'er her!"
Subject(s): Irish Unification Question


THE DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth
Last Line: Fate across all them rolls
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish


THE DUNOLLY EAGLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew
Last Line: That clings to slavery for its own sad sake.
Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish


THE EXODUS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million a decade!' calmly and coldly
Last Line: Ye're judged and doomed by the statist's pen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE EYES ARE ALWAYS BROWN, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I spent an hour watchjing the yellow parrots
Last Line: Did I stop to listen to that music, poor love?
Subject(s): Travel; Conduct Of Life; Irish; Judaism


THE FAIR HILLS OF EIRE; O!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take a blessing from my heart to the land of my birth
Last Line: "and the sunlight that shone long ago on the shields / of the gaels, on the fair hills of eire, o!"
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A plenteous place is ireland for hospitable cheer
Last Line: On the holy hills of holy ireland
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! Dead! Ye are dead while ye live
Last Line: You've a name that ye live -- but are dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE FATE OF THE O'SULLIVAN'S, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A baby in the mountain gap
Last Line: They never saw berehaven!
Subject(s): Bantry Bay, Ireland; Ireland; Irish


THE FIGHTING RACE [FEBRUARY 16, 1898], by JOSEPH IGNATIUS CONSTANTINE CLARKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Read out the names!' and burke sat back
Last Line: 1'98
Subject(s): Ireland; Maine (ship); Patriotism; Irish


THE FIND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I took a reed and blew a tune
Last Line: Upon a fairy mound.
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fairies; Mythology - Irish; Reeds; Elves


THE GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish


THE GOBHAN SAER, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stept a man out of the ways of men
Last Line: His name and towers for centuries shall stand.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Ireland; Irish


THE GOLDEN TONGUE OF IRELAND, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tongue of spice and salt and wine and honey
Last Line: Calling doom on chieftains dying. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE GREEN GRASS OF OLD IRELAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green grass av owld ireland!
Last Line: By reason av the green grass av owld ireland.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grass; Green (color); Ireland; Irish


THE GREENHORN YANK, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the morning I stood in the fair of dunleer
Last Line: Concerning the rope and the nose-ring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis
Subject(s): Americans; Bristol, England; Ireland; Irish


THE HAUNTED LAKE: THE IRISH MINSTREL'S LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose up the young moon; back she flung
Last Line: Mid these northern halls, to the meed of fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Lakes; Legends, Irish; Pools; Ponds


THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the hills and far away
Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish


THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The host is riding from knocknarea
Last Line: And niamh calling away, come away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Legends, Irish


THE HOUSE OF USNA; A DRAMA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it who is near me
Last Line: Seers and the will of the g
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Conchobhar Macnessa, King Of Ulster; Ireland; Irish


THE INVASION: SONG. CEAD MILE FAILTE, ELIM!, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Cead mile failte! Child of the ithian!
Last Line: Cead mile failte, elim!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE IRISH AVATAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere the daughter of brunswick is cold in her grave
Last Line: T is the glory of grattan, and genius of moore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Ireland; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Irish


THE IRISH DANCER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am of ireland
Last Line: Come and dance with me / in ireland
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;ireland; Irish


THE IRISH NEW POLICEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "your pardon, gents and ladies all"
Last Line: For don't myself get half the booty?
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;ireland;police;streets; Irish;avenues


THE IRISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through grief and through danger thy smile hath cheer'd my way
Last Line: Where shineth thy spirit, there liberty shineth too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Grief And Danger
Subject(s): Fidelity; Freedom; Irish Catholic Church; Faithfulness; Constancy; Liberty


THE IRISH PIPES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the piper playing
Last Line: The things you let me know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Pipers; Wisdom; Irish


THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER, by JAMES A. SIDEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come here, my boy, hould up your head
Last Line: "of bally blarney college."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidney, James A.
Subject(s): Ireland; Teaching & Teachers; Irish


THE IRISHMAN, by JAMES ORR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The savage loves his native shore
Last Line: The home of every irishman.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Ballycarry
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


THE IRISHMAN'D DREAM, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gloria! Gloria! With thee here this very pit
Last Line: (she embraces, then kisses him.)
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands
Last Line: She was our lady's dower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology


THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish


THE LAND OF FAL, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If poesy have truth at all
Last Line: To great o neill!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE LAND WE LIVE IN AND THE LAND WE LEFT, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The children of the western gael
Last Line: We're irish yet! We're irish yet!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE LEGEND OF FERGUS LEIDESON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "one day king fergus, leide luthmar's son"
Last Line: "he smile: he cast his trophy to the bank, / cried, 'I survivor, ulstermen!' and sank"
Subject(s): "legends, Irish;


THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country
Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S CALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is this? They say the irish fighting spirit
Last Line: Strings—it's the little people calling, calling you to war!
Subject(s): Ireland; War; World War I; Irish; First World War


THE LOST LAND, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have two daughters
Subject(s): Daughters; Ireland; Absence; Irish; Separation; Isolation


THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood among a crowd at drumahair
Last Line: The man has found no comfort in the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE MAN WHO LED THE VAN OF IRISH VOLUNTEERS, by EDWARD LYSAGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gen'rous sons of erin, in manly virtue bold
Last Line: The gallant man, who led the van of irish volunteers.
Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Grattan
Subject(s): Freedom; Grattan, Henry (1746-1820); Irish Unification Question; Liberty


THE MORE A MAN HAS THE MORE A MAN WANTS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At four in the morning he wakes
Subject(s): Ireland; Crime & Criminals; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Irish


THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road
Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails


THE OLD LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I came back to ireland the leaves on the tree
Last Line: For don't you remember? And could you forget?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Ireland; Memory; Dead, The; Irish


THE OLD OLD CHURCH (FOR IRISH CHURCHMEN), by J. DE B. SAUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old old church of the old old faith!
Last Line: Bespeak our ancestry.
Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Irish


THE OLD SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a young lad of happy sixteen
Last Line: "and my last breath shall whisper, 'god bless grannia wael.' "
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Youth; Dead, The; Irish


THE PASSING OF CAOILTE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas just before the truce sang thro' the din
Last Line: And where they went away what man has heard?
Subject(s): Heroism; Mythology - Australian; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Heroes; Heroines


THE PIPES OF THE NORTH, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do ye hear 'em sternly soundin' through the noises of the street
Last Line: Ye're sure the wings of gaelic souls as far as blood is true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E.
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Ireland; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Scotland; War; Irish


THE PROPHECY OF ST. ORAN, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm had ceased to rave: subsiding slow
Last Line: "that his blaspheming tongue may blab no more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Ireland; Missionaries & Missions; Oran, Saint; Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Irish


THE RED MAN'S WIFE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After great fire
Last Line: They fell by deirdre!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE SHADOWY WATERS: THE HARP OF AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Edain came out of midhir's hill, and lay
Last Line: But faithful lovers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mythology – Irish


THE SHAMROCK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long may the shamrock
Last Line: Still may they fondly grow together
Subject(s): Ireland;shamrock; Irish


THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea
Last Line: Then hurra for liberty! / says the shan van vocht
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy


THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh boney's on the sea
Last Line: Says the shan van vocht
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy


THE SIGHTSEERS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and mother, my brother and sister
Subject(s): Oppression; Ireland; Irish


THE SPRING IN IRELAND: 1916, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not forget my charge I beg of you
Last Line: We sail away -- be with us mananan!
Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; World War I; Irish; First World War


THE STRAND AT LOUGH BEG, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaving the white glow of filling stations
Subject(s): Irish Unification Question


THE STREAMS, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your murmurs bring the pleasant breath
Last Line: Amid the rush of streams!
Subject(s): Streams; Ireland; Homesickness; Irish


THE THREE GIVERS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England gave me sun and storm
Last Line: That gave the richest gift to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; England; Ireland; United States; English; Irish; America


THE THREE WOES, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That angel whose charge is eire sang thus, o'er the dark isle winging
Last Line: Let god do that which he wills. Let his servants endure and adore!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE TRUE IRISH KING, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The caesar of rome has a wider demesne
Last Line: And saints make the bed of the true irish king!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE TRYST AFTER DEATH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hush, woman, do not speak to me!"
Last Line: "my speech, my shape are spectral - hush, woman, do not speak to me!"
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


THE UNION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three in one, but one in three
Last Line: The royal commonweal!
Subject(s): God; Ireland; Nations; Sea; Irish; Ocean


THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the chief of the race - he had stricken my father dead
Last Line: When I landed again with a tithe of my men, on the isle of finn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Legends, Irish


THE WAVES OF BREFFNY, by EVA GORE-BOOTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grand road from the mountain goes shining to the sea
Last Line: And the little waves of breffny go stumbling through my soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Selina
Variant Title(s): The Little Waves Of Breffny
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE WEARER OF THE GREEN; TO MY FRIEND JOHN JAMES DONOGHUE, M.D., by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis now just a year since, come saint patrick's day
Last Line: Unfortunate divil—he laughed at the green!
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Irish


THE WEARIN' O' THE GREEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?"
Last Line: "and where, please god, I'll stick to wearin' o' the green"
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;patriotism;st. Patrick's Day; Liberty;irish


THE WEARING OF THE GREEN, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, patrick dear, and did you hear
Last Line: And wear the living green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Ireland; St. Patrick's Day; Irish


THE WILD GEESE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked by esknahinny at the waning of the moon
Last Line: The wild geese, the wild geese, they have come home once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Geese; Ireland; Irish


THE WOMAN OF BEARE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ebbing, the wave of the sea"
Last Line: Ebbs the wave of the sea
Subject(s): "legends, Irish;


THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO HELL; AN IRISH LEGEND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Young dermod stood by his mother's side
Last Line: And set her beside him there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Hell; Legends, Irish


THEATRE, by REMCO CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bring you along with me
Last Line: But not quite yet
Subject(s): Irish Translations


THEATRE, by REMCO CAMPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take you with me
Last Line: Mouths open to speak %but not yet
Subject(s): Irish Translations


THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the outset / charmed by the soft, quick speech
Last Line: Of poetry – was at last mine
Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry & Poets


THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the outset %charmed by the soft, quick speech
Last Line: Of poetry - was at last mine
Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry And Poets


THIN WIRE, by LEO VROMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something is bound to happen yet to my head
Last Line: And what if shurp circuit should lead to brurp -- %brarp! Hurp! Hurp!
Subject(s): Irish Translations


THIS FEELING, by J. A. (ADWAITA) DER MOUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Does anyone know this feeling: it's not the blues
Last Line: You are the clouds and you are the heath
Subject(s): Irish Translations


THIS NATIVE LAND, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is a rich and rare land
Last Line: This native land of mine.
Variant Title(s): My Land
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THREE GRAINS OF CORN; THE IRISH FAMINE, by AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother
Last Line: Give me three grains of corn.
Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland; Irish


TIGER LILY, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray are the gardens of our celtic lands
Last Line: Spring after spring.
Subject(s): Ireland; Tiger Lilies; Irish


TIME NOW PLEASE, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pub empties out, the moon sets. The stars
Last Line: With hope, with despair -- common fate none can elude
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TIME, PLEASE, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pub empties, the moon is down
Last Line: Kindled within the inescapable dark
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, the poet william yeats
Last Line: When all is ruin once again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish


TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, the poet william yeats
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish


TO GOD AND IRELAND TRUE, by ELLEN O'LEARY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit beside my darling's grave
Last Line: To god, to ireland, and to you!
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


TO IRELAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear witness, erin! When thine injured isle
Last Line: When thou wert not, which shall be when thou perishest.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TO IRELAND, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My country, wounded to the heart
Last Line: Loved ireland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know, that I would accounted be
Last Line: After the red-rose-bordered hem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Apologia Addressed To Ireland In The Coming Days
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TO LOVE A WOMAN, by ED HOORNIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: To love a woman is to escape from death
Last Line: It's like I'm dead and have left her behind
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days!
Last Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Legends, Irish; Roses; Irish


TO-DAY, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has the line of the patriots ended
Last Line: With the passionate splendours of youth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


TOGETHER AGAIN, by WALTER VAN DE LAAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I behold her there
Last Line: Inside her; she keeps me warm again
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TOGETHER AGAIN, by WALTER VAN DE LAAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: You get these thoughts in melancholy autumn
Last Line: Get it up and get inside me, as warm as ever.'
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TOLLUND MAN, by HUGO CLAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a relative %whom one seldom sees in the family
Last Line: Still burns in you, all our shreds together
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TOMORROW, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her, that yer honor was spakin' to? Whin, yet honor? Last year
Last Line: Yer honor 'ill give me a thrifle to dhrink yer health in potheen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TOWN A BIRD SANCTUARY, by J. EIJKELBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a gull that slipped on the ice
Last Line: Fortunately he who can't invent %experiences a lot
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TREES, LATE IN THE SEAOSN, by WILLEM KLOOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trees, late in the season, bare
Last Line: But I shall enjoy glorious resurrection in my verse!
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TRIBUTARY, by LEONARD NOLENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is sleeping, so it's quiet. Then it snows in the rooms
Last Line: And hone it still, even in sleep when I cry out, dreaming of her
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TRINITY, by GERRIT ACHTERBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stone that god whets laws with
Last Line: May thy kingdom come
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TRISTITIA ANTE, by MAURICE GILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The farm and black wood-stack stand
Last Line: As your own body
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 1. THE SAILING OF THE SWALLOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the middle music of the spring
Last Line: And their four lips became one burning mouth.
Subject(s): God; Ireland; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Spring; Storms; Irish


TULIPS, by MIEKE TILLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tulips I do not love, they seem
Last Line: Soul-sorrowing at their best
Subject(s): Irish Translations


TURLOUGH MACSWEENEY, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A health to you, piper
Last Line: A health to you, piper!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


TURN AND TURN ABOUT, by MARGARET DIJKSTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight I resurrected from the dead
Last Line: You asleep, I asked. Your face flickered like a light
Subject(s): Irish Translations


ULF IN IRELAND, by CHARLES DE KAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What then, what if my lips do burn
Last Line: Horror, horror!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


UNA BAWN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Una bawn, the days are long,
Last Line: Una bawn, and I must bide.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


UNCLE CHARLES: A HOME MOVIE, by HENDRIK JAN MARSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saw a movie this afternoon. Uncle charles
Last Line: Uncle charles lives, uncle charles is dead
Subject(s): Irish Translations


VILLAGE, by ROLAND JOORIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A village is a circle
Last Line: Of drenched, %illegible words
Subject(s): Irish Translations


VISIT, by TOON TELLEGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day the time had come
Last Line: Already stretched tightly around me
Subject(s): Irish Translations


VISITATION, by ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The room grew dark and at my work desk stood two spirits
Last Line: Waned in my heart when she laid her hand on my head
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WANTING TO, by JAN G. ELBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take up my belly and go
Last Line: I shall see the sprouting
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WAY OF THE WATER, by JOHANNA KRUIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does not exist cannot be
Last Line: But behind the borders all seemed white
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WHAT DOES ONE DO, by ROLAND JOORIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does one do
Last Line: Goes on out there
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would give fine weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Irish Catholic Church; Nationalism - Ireland


WILLIAM CARLETON; DIED JANUARY 30TH, 1869, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our land has lost a glory! Never more
Last Line: As through triumphal arches, to the tomb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Carleton, William (1794-1869); Ireland; Irish


WILLIAM O KELLY, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not since the gael was sold
Last Line: The topmost blackberry!
Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish


WILLIAMSBRIDGE, by JANA BERANOVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just an instant the sun hung
Last Line: To red-hot threads
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WINTER IN IRELAND, by CHARLES BEWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In winter twilights
Last Line: Christ walks again.
Subject(s): Ireland; Oxford University; Irish


WINTER MIRROR, by JUDITH MOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first day when water
Last Line: Say nothing, do nothing, nothing
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WINTER MIRROR II, by JUDITH MOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: At night packed in darkness and down
Last Line: The fish is silver and has flown free
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WITHIN MY LIFE, by JAN JACOB SLAUERHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within my life, which is continually torn
Last Line: To move any more in water eternally still
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WOMAN 12, by HUGO CLAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her mouth: the tiger, the leap, the toll
Last Line: Who lived high as the sea and curdling in the scruff of my neck
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WORN-OUT POP-SONG, by JOTIE T' HOOFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A worn-out pop song, a tattered blues
Last Line: To escape the terrible performance
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WRINKLING TOGETHER, by LEO VROMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love is foolish which studies the skin
Last Line: And spewed into the ground
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WRITING ON A TOMBSTONE, by J. C. BLOEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone anonymous in the anonymous throng
Last Line: Letters, numbers which the rain fills
Subject(s): Irish Translations


WRITTEN IN IRELAND, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest would be ierne's isle
Last Line: Wert thou as good as great.
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips


X-RAYS, by THEO VAN DOESBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am irradiated by the room through which a tram runs
Last Line: Curving blue %space %is me
Subject(s): Irish Translations


YOU STAND, by BEN CAMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You stand, leaning on your spade, and rest
Last Line: Man, questioning incarnate
Subject(s): Irish Translations


YOUR SWEATERS, by HERMAN DE CONINCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your sweaters %your stockings
Last Line: How it is in a poem?
Subject(s): Irish Translations