Féachadóir wrote:

> Scríobh "SammyM" :

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>> What about the "lennan-shee" in the "Lagan Love" poem I posted ?
>> I was told this is a "Fairy Lover" that takes one's love and then leaves,
>> leaving the human pining for their lost love.

Leannán Sidhe, or Leannán Sí, literally a fairy lover as you said. She often appears as a muse to poets and bards.

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...or as an otherworldly representation of a very real-world longing:

Death Will Come Theo Dorgan

Ireland's Love Poems: Wonder and a Wild Desire edited by A. Norman Jeffares W. W. Norton & Co., 2002

Death will come and have your eyes
and I will go into her arms
without fear or hesitation.

Frost on the slates
of our beloved square,
the cars riding low under
a hurrying sky when

I open the great half-door
and take her hand,
her long black coat.

The bare-flagged hallway, frost
and perfume on the night air.

I watch her let down
her gleaming hair,
open her slender arms
in your exact gesture.

Death will come and have your eyes
and I will go into her arms
without fear or hesitation.