Mythology & Folklore

Hanrahan Laments Because of His Wanderings

by W. B. Yeats 1865–1939

From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

Mythology & Folklore

O where is our Mother of Peace
Nodding her purple hood?
For the winds that awakened the stars
Are blowing through my blood.
I would that the death-pale deer
Had come through the mountain side,
And trampled the mountain away,
And drunk up the murmuring tide;
For the winds that awakened the stars
Are blowing through my blood,
And our Mother of Peace has forgot me
Under her purple hood.

MLA

Yeats, W. B. “Hanrahan Laments Because of His Wanderings.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/201/.

Chicago

Yeats, W. B. “Hanrahan Laments Because of His Wanderings.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/201/.

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