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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WELL OF ALL-HEALING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a cure for sorrow in the well at ballylee
Last Line: While the heart of the earth is full.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures
First Line: There's a cure for sorrow in the well at ballylee
Last Line: While the heart of the earth is full.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures
THERE'S a cure for sorrow in the well at Ballylee
Where the scarlet cressets hang over the trembling pool:
And joyful winds are blowing from the Land of Youth to me,
And the heart of the earth is full.
Many and many a sunbright maiden saw the enchanted land
With star faces glimmer up from the druid wave:
Many and many a pain of love was soothed by a faery hand
Or lost in the love it gave.
When the quiet with a ring of pearl shall wed the earth,
And the scarlet berries burn dark by the stars in the pool;
Oh, it's lost and deep I'll be amid the Danaan mirth,
While the heart of the earth is full.
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