Love

The Heart of the Wood

by Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, later) c. 13th–18th century

Translated by Lady Gregory (1918) · From The Kiltartan Poetry Book (1918)

Love

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.

MLA

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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