The Mother
by Patrick Pearse
I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge
My two strong sons that I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they and a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing,
They shall be spoken of among their people,
The generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed;
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights;
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord, thou art hard on mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going;
And tho’ I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow—And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Purity by Rabindranath Tagore
- Aftermath by Sylvia Plath
- Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. by Walt Whitman
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico:
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- John Keats – John Keats Poems
- In a Castle poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Stray Pleasures by William Wordsworth
- Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots by Robert Burns
- Sher Afzul
- A Thought From Propertius by William Butler Yeats
- A Minor Bird by Robert Frost
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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