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Poetry of Ireland (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by Pirate Queen
on: 23 August 1999

born c 1917 . . . .Well-known dramatist, her plays have been widely performed. Studied acting in Dublin and at RADA. She was born to a Gaelic-speaking family and studied English at evening classes. Author of "Rory O'Donnell" and many one-act plays for radio; she has said that her poems are millions of years old and do not belong to her.

Poem for Frances Harvey
Madge Herron

Love Poems by Women: An anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages
edited by Wendy Mulford
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990

Christ, and when I sleep
Your wounds hop on to me
like little mice;
what encumbrance is this?
Survive the night
and be my finest poem
pushed thinly through
and nothing of you spilt.
A legend in a vessel;
twixt the gable
and the well
whortled darkening stones
near where you fell
I hear Him coming
in the mass.
Will He love me?
who am the Bull --
and will He say?
There's not a day
goes past
But I think on thee,
My Love, My Love.

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