Irish Love Song
by Margaret Widdemer
Well, if the thing is over, better it is for me,
The lad was ever a rover, loving and laughing free,
Far too clever a lover not to be having still
A lass in the town and a lass by the road and a lass by the farther hill —
Love on the field and love on the path and love in the woody glen —
(Lad, will I never see you, never your face again?)
Ay, if the thing is ending, now I’ll be getting rest,
Saying my prayers and bending down to be stilled and blest,
Never the days are sending hope till my heart is sore
For a laugh on the path and a voice by the gate and a step
on the shieling floor —
Grief on my ways and grief on my work and grief till the evening’s dim —
(Lord, will I never hear it, never a sound of him?)
Sure if it’s done forever, better for me that’s wise,
Never the hurt, and never tears in my aching eyes,
No more the trouble ever to hide from my asking folk
Beat of my heart at click o’ the latch, and throb if his name is spoke;
Never the need to hide the sighs and the flushing thoughts and the fret,
And after awhile my heart will hush and my hungering hands forget . . .
Peace on my ways, and peace in my step, and maybe my heart grown light —
(Mary, helper of heartbreak, send him to me to-night!)
End of the poem
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- Ballade Of The Dead Cities poem – Andrew Lang poems
- St Ives by Roald Dahl
- Villion’s Ballade Of Good Counsel, To His Friends Of Evil Life poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ольга Седакова – Земля
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты хочешь освободиться от тяжести войны?.. (РОСТА №523)
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- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- Олег Сердобольский – Облачко
- Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
- Two Hundred Years After by Siegfried Sassoon
- O You Who’ve gone on Pilgrimage by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Юлия Жадовская – Чем ярче шумный пир
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Затмение
- Robert Burns: Elegy On “Stella”: The following poem is the work of some hapless son of the Muses who deserved a better fate. There is a great deal of “The voice of Cona” in his solitary, mournful notes; and had the sentiments been clothed in Shenstone’s language, they would have been no discredit even to that elegant poet.-R.B.
- Lover’s Gifts XL: A Message Came by Rabindranath Tagore
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