Love
My Sorrow on the Sea
Translated by George Sigerson (1907) · From Bards of the Gael and Gall (1907)
My grief and my sorrow —
The great wide sea!
It flows night and morrow
'Tween my Love and me.
I'm left here despairing,
Pining away,
No hope p'er it faring
For ever and aye.
O woe! to be with him
My Vourneen fair,
In the lowlands of Leinster
Or highlands of Clare.
Last night I was sleeping
On rush-bed gray,
This morn, I was weeping,
And cast it away.
My Love had come to me
In swiftest of ships,
To comfort, to woo me
His lips on my lips.
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “My Sorrow on the Sea.” Translated by George Sigerson. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/120/.
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “My Sorrow on the Sea.” Translated by George Sigerson. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/120/.
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