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Dánta na hÉireann  (poems composed in Irish)

Posted by K E Dennis
on:    25 November 1998

Just a wee poem for the newest flower of s.c.i....
 
'S Í Bláth Geal Na Sméar Í       
Gan ainm 
An Duanaire 1600 - 1900 (Poems of the Dispossessed)
edited by Sean Ó Tuama
Dublin: The Dolmen Press / Bord na Gaeilge, 1981
  She's The Blackberry Flower - translation by Thomas Kinsella

'S í bláth geal na sméar í,
's í bláth deas na sú croabh í,
's í plandra b'fhearr méin mhaith
le hamharc do shúl;
's í mo chuisle, 's í mo rún í,
's í bláth na n-úll gcumhra í.
is samhradh ins an fluacht í
idir Nollaig is Cáisc.

She's The Blackberry Flower
trans. Thomas Kinsella

She's the blackberry flower,
the fine raspberry-flower,
she's the plant of best breeding
your eyes could behold:
she's my darling and dear,
my fresh apple-tree flower,
she is Summer in the cold
between Christmas and Easter.


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Questions? Comments? -K. E. Dennis

Dánta na hÉireann  (poems composed in Irish)

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