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Padraic Pearse

I lived from 1879-1916. I was from Ireland, and am in the English category.

My poetry

  • Grief on the death, it has blackened my heart:
    It has snatched my low and left me desolate,
    23 lines
  • Naked I saw thee,
    O beauty of beauty!
    29 lines
  • The world hath conquered, the wind hath scattered like dust
    Alexander, Cæsar, and all that shared their sway:
    4 lines
  • I have not gathered gold;
    The fame that I won perished;
    9 lines

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