O colleens, kneeling by your altar rails long hence, When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer, And smoke from this dead heart drifts through the violet air And covers away the smoke of myrrh and frankincense; Bend down and pray for the great sin I wove in song, Till Maurya of the wounded heart cry a sweet cry, And call to my beloved and me: 'No longer fly 'Amid the hovering, piteous, penitential throng.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG [OF DIVINE LOVE] by RICHARD CRASHAW ETHELSTAN: RUNILDA'S CHANT by GEORGE DARLEY THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT by EDWARD LEAR AFTER DEATH by FRANCES ISABEL PARNELL DEEDS OF VALOR AT SANTIAGO by CLINTON SCOLLARD O YOU WHOM I OFTEN AND SILENTLY COME by WALT WHITMAN |