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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by KateH
on:    6 May 2009

sidheseeker wrote:

> Even if I had [a poem] I wouldn't post it..
> Shows how far into the abyss SCI and SCC have fallen.. :-(

What?! No poems?! :)
How low the mighty have fallen......
Next you'll be sayin' you've stopped seekin' the sidhe!!!
KateH :(

FROM:    Harvest-Home
George Darley             (1795 - 1846)

                                                          [see notes, below]

The Complete Poetical Works of George Darley
edited by Ramsay Colles
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1908

Down the dimpled green-sward dancing
Bursts a flaxen headed bevy,
Bud-lipt boys and girls advancing
Love's irregular little levy.

Rows of liquid eyes in laughter,
How they glimmer, how they quiver!
Sparkling one another after,
Like the ripples on a river.

Tipsy band of rubious faces,
Flushed with joys ethereal spirit,
Make your mocks and sly grimaces
At Love's self, and do not fear it.

Notes: these verses from 'Harvest-Home' have appeared in a number of anthologies as a stand-alone poem, titled "The Joy of Childhood"


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