Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba
I heard their young hearts crying Loveward above the glancing oar And heard the prairie grasses sighing: No more, return no more! O hearts, O sighing grasses, Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn! No more will the wild wind that passes Return, no more return.
James Joyce’s other poems:
- Chamber Music. 26. Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night
- Nightpiece
- Chamber Music. 28. Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing
- Chamber Music. 12. What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon
- Lament for the Yeomen
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