Douglas Hyde Poems

FOR thee, I shall not die,
Woman of high fame and name;
Foolish men thou mayest slay
I and they are not the same.
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I am Raferty the Poet
Full of hope and love,
With eyes that have no light,
With gentleness that has no misery.
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MY grief on the sea,
How the waves of it roll!
For they heave between me
And the love of my soul!
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A fragrant prayer upon the air
My child taught me,
Awaken there, the morn is fair,
The birds sing free;
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SHE casts a spell, oh, casts a spell!
Which haunts me more than I can tell.
Dearer, because she makes me ill
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RINGLETED youth of my love,
With thy locks bound loosely behind thee,
You passed by the road above,
But you never came in to find me;
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Bruadar and Smith and Glinn,
Amen, dear God, I pray,
May they lie low in waves of woe,
And tortures slow each day!
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ALAS for the voyage, O High King of Heaven,
Enjoined upon me,
For that I on the red plain of bloody Cooldrevin
Was present to see.
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