Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
I have fared far in the dim woods: And I have known sorrow and grief, And the incalculable years That haunt the solitudes. Where now are the multitudes Of the Field of Spears? Old tears Fall upon them as rain, Their eyes are quiet under the brown leaf. I have seen the dead, innumerous: I too shall lie thus, And thou, Congal, thou too shalt lie Still and white Under the starry sky, And rise no more to any Field of Spears, But, under the brown leaf, Remember grief And the old, salt, bitter tears. And I have heard the crying of wind. It is the crying that is in my heart: Oona of the Dark Eyes, Oona of the Dark Eyes, Oona, Oona, Oona, Heart of my Heart! But there is only crying of wind Through the silences of the sky, Dews that fall and rise, The faring of long years, And the coverlet of the brown leaf For the old familiar grief And the old tears. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS |
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