Seumas O'sullivan Poems
- 1. The Starling Lake
My sorrow that I am not by the little dún
By the lake of the starlings at Rosses under the hill,
And the larks there, singing over the fields of dew,
Or evening there and the sedges still.
... - 2. The Sedges
I whispered my great sorrow
To every listening sedge;
And they bent, bowed with my sorrow,
Down to the water's edge.
... - 3. The Others
From our hidden places
By a secret path,
We come in the moonlight
To the side of the green rath.
... - 4. The Half Door
Dark eyes, wonderful, strange and dear they shone
A moment's space;
And wandering under the white stars I had gone
In a strange place.
... - 5. Lament For Sean Macdermott
They have slain you, Sean MacDermott; never more these eyes will greet
The eyes beloved by women, and the smile that true men loved;
Never more I'll hear the stick-tap, and the gay and limping feet,
They have slain you, Sean the Gentle, Sean the valiant, Sean the proved.
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