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
- Dedication by Wole Soyinka
- The springtime of Lovers has come by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Tube Station
- The Child and the Mariner by William Henry Davies
- Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol by William Lisle Bowles
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- Dark Room( qua vadis) by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams by Wendell Berry
- On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Conscious by Wilfred Owen
- Song by Thomas Carew
- The Methodist by Thomas Chatterton
- Tablet
- It was an April morning: fresh and clear by William Wordsworth
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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).
