Love
Hopeless Love
Translated by Eleanor Hull (1913) · From The Poem-Book of the Gael (1913)
Since I know
Hopeless of thy love I go,
Since from me each dear delight
takes flight:
Ere we end
Ways we might together wend,
Ere the light from out mine eyes
dies:
Give some sign
One regretful thought is thine,
Lest I count my story told,
overbold.
For I hold,
Time may yet some joy unfold,
Joy such as the lifelong blind
find;
If entwined
In the fabric of the mind,
Dwells the memory of thy tear,
dear!
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “Hopeless Love.” Translated by Eleanor Hull. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/45/.
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “Hopeless Love.” Translated by Eleanor Hull. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/45/.
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