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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by Kate Hockersmith
on:    2 August 1998

Fell for this one in botany class...sedges & grasses / chapter 10. Never did very well either, was probably reading the wrong book.
  

The Sedges     (I whispered my great sorrow)
Seumas O'Sullivan

 

Anthology of Irish Verse
edited by Padraic Colum
New York:  Boni & Liveright, 1922

I whispered my great sorrow
   To every listening sedge;
And they bent, bowed with my sorrow,
   Down to the water's edge.

But she stands and laughs lightly
   To see me sorrow so,
Like the light winds that laughing
   Across the water go.

If I could tell the bright ones
   That quiet-hearted move,
They would bend down like the sedges
   With the sorrow of love.

But she stands laughing lightly,
   Who all my sorrow knows,
Like the little wind that laughing
   Across the water blows.

--- The End ---

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