I am Ireland
by Patrick Pearse
I am Ireland:
I am older than the Old Woman of Beare.
Great my glory
I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant.
Great my shame:
My own children that sold their mother.
I am Ireland:
I am lonelier than the Old Woman of Beare.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- If Only
- M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School–Detroit, 1942 by Philip Levine
- The Letters poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid’s Metamorphoses, book 14 [v. 623-771] poem – Alexander Pope
- Methought I Saw The Footsteps Of A Throne by William Wordsworth
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- The Ploughman’s Life by Robert Burns
- A Prayer
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- In Barracks by Siegfried Sassoon
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone. by Walt Whitman
- Private Property
- To Ailsa Rock poem – John Keats poems
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Falling Of The Leaves by William Butler Yeats
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
