The following four poems can be found (among others) at a web-site entitled "FAMINE POETRY". It is at: http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/unit_7.html, or can be accessed from: http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish_famine.html.

The site has the following notice: "Poetry used by permission of the Irish Academic Press, Dublin. Excerpted from The Hungry Voice , Edited by Chris Morash, 1989".

I thirst beside the heather-laden bogs -
no samaritan for me;
no one here to see
that I shall die amidst the
plenty, in the field -
and that its yield
will sail to shores beyond the sea.
How can it be
that flocks of sheep can find their fill
while I lie empty and in pain?
or is it vain
to beg attention to my plight?
How can I fight
when I am listless, drained alone,
shrunken to the bone
while others eat what I have
grown in toil?
Woman of the soil -
I fade against a wall of human greed
and - sower of the seed -
I languish as it grows ...

                [The Itinerant Singing Girl]
                [The Famine Year]
                [Give Me Three Grains Of Corn, Mother]
 

                [see also James Clarence Mangan's Dark Rosaleen]