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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IRISH PEASANT GIRL, by CHARLES JOSEPH KICKHAM Poem Explanation First Line: She lived beside the anner Last Line: That withered far away. Subject(s): Girls | |||
SHE lived beside the Anner, At the foot of Sliev-na-man, A gentle peasant girl, With mild eyes like the dawn; Her lips were dewy rosebuds; Her teeth of pearls rare; And a snow-drift 'neath a beechen bough Her neck and nut-brown hair How pleasant 'twas to meet her On Sunday, when the bell Was filling with its mellow tones Lone wood and grassy dell! And when at eve young maidens Strayed the river bank along, The widow's brown-haired daughter Was loveliest of the throng. O brave, brave Irish girls -- We well may call you brave! -- Sure the least of all your perils Is the stormy ocean wave, When you leave our quiet valleys, And cross the Atlantic's foam, To hoard your hard-won earnings For the helpless ones at home. 'Write word to my own dear mother -- Say, we'll meet with God above; And tell my little brothers I send them all my love; May the angels ever guard them, Is their dying sister's prayer' -- And folded in the letter Was a braid of nut-brown hair. Ah, cold, and well-nigh callous, This weary heart has grown For thy helpless fate, dear Ireland, And for sorrows of my own; Yet a tear my eye will moisten, When by Anner side I stray, For the lily of the mountain foot That withered far away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE RETURNED GIRLS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A GIRL by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY SONG OF THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL by KATHERINE MANSFIELD SEASHORE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS GIRLS ON THE RUN: 1 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 10 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 14 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 2 by JOHN ASHBERY RORY OF THE HILL by CHARLES JOSEPH KICKHAM |
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