Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONG OF FREEDOM, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poet's Biography First Line: In cavan of little lakes Last Line: There is no fetter for the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty | ||||||||
In Cavan of little lakes, As I was walking with the wind, And no one seen beside me there, There came a song into my mind; It came as if the whispered voice Of one, but none of human kind, Who walked with me in Cayan then, And he invisible as wind. On Urris of Inish-Owen, As I went up the mountain side, The brook that came leaping down Cried to me--for joy it cried; And when from off the summit far I looked o'er land and water wide, I was more joyous than the brook That met me on the mountain side. To Ara of Connacht's isles, As I went sailing o'er the sea, The wind's word, the brook's word, The wave's word, was plain to me-- As we are, though she is not, As we are, shall Banba be-- There is no king can rule the wind, There is no fetter for the sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER A BENEDICTION by ALICE MILLIGAN THE DARK PALACE (THE PALACE OF AILEACH, SEAT OF THE O'NEILL) by ALICE MILLIGAN |
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