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
- Million Man March Poem by Maya Angelou
- The Common Life by W H Auden
- Wet City Night
- The Ruins Of Time by Robert Lowell
- To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America by Phillis Wheatley
- From Paumanok Starting. by Walt Whitman
- Poetic Vision – Heaven’s Door
- The Captive by Rudyard Kipling
- Brookwell by William Barnes
- Other by Robert Creeley
- Impromptu on Carron Iron Works by Robert Burns
- Владимир Степанов – Ослик
- Written In A Quarrel by William Cowper
- The Nineteenth Century And After by William Butler Yeats
- Ballad on the American War by Robert Burns
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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).
