The Mother
by Patrick Pearse
I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge
My two strong sons that I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they and a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing,
They shall be spoken of among their people,
The generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed;
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights;
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord, thou art hard on mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going;
And tho’ I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow—And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Tree Of Song by Sara Teasdale
- A Longing for Silence! by Preeth Nambiar
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- The Ring of Stars by Robert Desnos
- Английская поэзия. Редьярд Киплинг. «Расходы и поступления». (1919-1926). 9. Джейн выходит замуж. Rudyard Kipling. «Debits and Credits». (1919-1926). 9. Jane’s Marriage
- In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory by William Butler Yeats
- The Little Worold by William Barnes
- Desmond’s Song by Thomas Moore
- Italy
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- A Kiss by Thomas Lux
- Robert Burns: Pegasus At Wanlockhead:
- Владимир Корнилов – Жара
- Омар Хайям – О друге я мечтал, но им не стал никто
- Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien by William Wordsworth
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