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
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- Her Triumph by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
- Владимир Корнилов – Сызнова
- Untitled VII by Yunus Emre
- The Paper Windmill poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Gardener IV: Ah Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- And love has changed to kindliness by Rupert Brooke
- The Great Carbuncle by Sylvia Plath
- To Lily poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- A Winter Bluejay by Sara Teasdale
- In January by Ted Kooser
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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).