Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Douglas Hyde. b. 1861858. My Grief on the Sea FROM THE IRISH
MY grief on the sea, | |
How the waves of it roll! | |
For they heave between me | |
And the love of my soul! | |
Abandon’d, forsaken, | 5 |
To grief and to care, | |
Will the sea ever waken | |
Relief from despair? | |
My grief and my trouble! | |
Would he and I were, | 10 |
In the province of Leinster, | |
Or County of Clare! | |
Were I and my darling— | |
O heart-bitter wound!— | |
On board of the ship | 15 |
For America bound. | |
On a green bed of rushes | |
All last night I lay, | |
And I flung it abroad | |
With the heat of the day. | 20 |
And my Love came behind me, | |
He came from the South; | |
His breast to my bosom, | |
His mouth to my mouth. |