Love
The Heart of the Wood
Translated by Lady Gregory (1918) · From The Kiltartan Poetry Book (1918)
My hope and my love, we will go for a while into the wood, scattering the dew, where we will see the trout, we will see the blackbird on its nest; the deer and the buck calling, the little bird that is sweetest singing on the branches; the cuckoo on the top of the fresh green; and death will never come near us for ever in the sweet wood.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “The Heart of the Wood.” Translated by Lady Gregory. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/87/.
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Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later). “The Heart of the Wood.” Translated by Lady Gregory. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-irish-gaelic/87/.
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