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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IRISH Matches Found: 493 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 backpray dowhile 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 answersblarney! 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 springthe 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: Stringsit'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 divilhe 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 |
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