Victorian

Moira O'Neill

1864–1955


Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), an Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun.

The poems here are taken from Arthur Quiller-Couch's anthology The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (Clarendon Press, 1912).

  1. A Broken Song
  2. The Fairy Lough
  3. Beauty's a Flower
  4. A Song of Glenann
  5. Corrymeela
  6. Forgettin'

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