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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I GIVE MY HEART TO THEE, O MOTHERLAND, by STANDISH JAMES O'GRADY Poet's Biography
First Line: Now memory, false, spendthrift memory
Last Line: Like pilgrims, wander on thy haunted shore.
Variant Title(s): An Ancient Tale [or, Rhyme
Subject(s): Bray, Ireland
First Line: Now memory, false, spendthrift memory
Last Line: Like pilgrims, wander on thy haunted shore.
Variant Title(s): An Ancient Tale [or, Rhyme
Subject(s): Bray, Ireland
Now Memory, false, spendthrift Memory,
Disloyal treasure-keeper of the soul,
This vision change shall never wrong from thee,
Nor wasteful years, effacing as they roll.
O steel-blue lake, high cradled in the hills!
O sad waves, filled with little sobs and cries!
White glistening shingle, hiss of mountain rills,
And granite-hearted walls blotting the skies,
Shine, sob, gleam, gloom for ever! Oh, in me
Be what you are in Nature--a recess
To sadness dedicate, the mystery
Withdrawn, afar, in the soul's wilderness,
Still let my thoughts, leaving the worldly roar
Like pilgrims, wander on thy haunted shore.
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