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Seumas O Sullivan

I lived from 1879-1958. I was from Ireland, and am in the English category.

My poetry

  • A Piper
    A Piper in the streets to-day
    Set up, and tuned, and started to play,
    10 lines
  • The Half Door
    Dark eyes, wonderful, strange and dear they shone
      A moment’s space;
    13 lines
  • The Sedges
    I whispered my great sorrow
      To every listening sedge;
    19 lines
  • Lament For Sean MacDermott
    They have slain you, Sean MacDermott; never more these eyes will greet
    The eyes beloved by women, and the smile that true men loved;
    14 lines
  • The Starling Lake
    My sorrow that I am not by the little dún
    By the lake of the starlings at Rosses under the hill,
    13 lines
  • The Others
    From our hidden places
      By a secret path,
    54 lines
  • Praise
    DEAR, they are praising your beauty,
    The grass and the sky:
    13 lines

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