Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAN FITZGERL, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poet's Biography First Line: Wirra, wirra! Ologone %can't ye lave a lad alone | ||||||||
Wirra, wirra! ologone! Can't ye lave a lad alone, Till he's proved there's no tradition left of any other girl- Not even Trojan Helen, In beauty all excellin'- Who's been up to half the divlement of Fan Fitzgerl. Wid her brows of silky black Arched above for the attack, Her eyes they dart such azure death on poor admirin' man; Masther Cupid, point your arrows, From this out, agin the sparrows, For your bested at Love's archery by young Miss Fan. See what showers of goolden thread Lift and fall upon her head, The likes of such a trammel-net at say was niver spread For, whin accurately reckoned, 'Twas computed that each second Of her curls has cot a Kerryman and kilt him dead. Now mintion, if ye will, Brandon Mount and Hungry Hill, Or Ma'g'llicuddy's Reeks renowned for cripplin' all they can; Still the countryside confisses None of all its precipices Cause a quarther so much carnage as the nose of Fan. But your shatthered hearts suppose Safely steered apast her nose, She's a current and a reef beyant to wreck them rovin' ships. My maning it is simple; For that current is her dimple, And the cruel reef 'twill coax ye to 's her coral lips. I might inform ye further Of her bosom's snowy murther, And an ankle ambuscadin' through her gown's delightful whirl; But what need, when all the village Has forsook its peaceful tillage, And flown to war and pillage all for Fan Fitzgerl! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IRISH SPINNING-WHEEL by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES AN IRISH LULLABY by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES FORTUNE MY FOE by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES HERRING IS KING by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES OULD DOCTOR MACK by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES THE LITTLE RED LARK by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES THE WHITE BLOSSOM'S OFF THE BOG by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES THE WRECK OF THE AIDEEN by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES BROTHERS IN ARMS by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES FIXIN' THE DAY by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES |
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