I am Ireland
by Patrick Pearse
I am Ireland:
I am older than the Old Woman of Beare.
Great my glory
I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant.
Great my shame:
My own children that sold their mother.
I am Ireland:
I am lonelier than the Old Woman of Beare.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Weaver by Nijole Miliauskaite
- To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Mohini Chatterjee by William Butler Yeats
- Иннокентий Анненский – Листы
- O my Lord by Rabi’a
- The Wind In The Hemlock by Sara Teasdale
- A Question poem – Alfred Austin
- YOU ARE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY by Steve Troyanovich
- Election Ballad for Westerha’ by Robert Burns
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
- As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden
- Владимир Набоков – Лыжный прыжок
- In the End by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Day on the Beach of War by Tony Stringfellow
- When I Met My Muse by William Stafford
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
