Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEG-INNISH, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poet's Biography First Line: Bring kateen-beug and maurya jude Last Line: And sail from beg-innish. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. | ||||||||
Bring Kateen-beug and Maurya Jude To dance in Beg-Innish, And when the lads (they're in Dunquin) Have sold their crabs and fish, Wave fawny shawls and call them in, And call the little girls who spin, And seven weavers from Dunquin, To dance in Beg-Innish. I'll play you jigs, and Maurice Kean, Where nets are laid to dry, I've silken strings would draw a dance From girls are lame or shy; Four strings I've brought from Spain and France To make your long men skip and prance, Till stars look out to see the dance Where nets are laid to dry. We'll have no priest or peeler in To dance in Beg-Innish; But we'll have drink from M'riarty Jim Rowed round while gannets fish, A keg with porter to the brim, That every lad may have his whim, Till we up sails with M'riarty Jim And sail from Beg-Innish. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON AN ANNIVERSARY by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE PRELUDE by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE EPITAPH AFTER READING RONSARD'S LINES FROM RABELAIS by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE IN KERRY by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE ON A BIRTHDAY by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE QUEENS by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE THE PASSING OF THE SHEE by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE TO THE OAKS OF GLENCREE by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE MEMOIR OF A PROUD BOY by CARL SANDBURG FETES GALANTES: PANYOMIME by PAUL VERLAINE GOOD-BYE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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