Love
What Is Love?
Translated by Eleanor Hull (1913) · From The Poem-Book of the Gael (1913)
A love much-enduring through a year is my love,
It is grief close-hidden,
It is stretching of strength beyond its bounds,
It is (fills?) the four quarters of the world;
It is the highest height of heaven;
It is breaking of the neck,
It is battle with a spectre,
It is drowning with water,
It is a race against heaven,
It is champion-feats beneath the sea,
It is wooing the echo;
So is my love, and my passion, and my devotion to her to whom
I gave them.
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MLA
Anonymous (Old Irish). “What Is Love?” Translated by Eleanor Hull. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/58/.
Chicago
Anonymous (Old Irish). “What Is Love?” Translated by Eleanor Hull. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-irish/58/.
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