Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Introduction: ‘Slow Tide on Tide of History’: Poetry by Women in Ireland, 1870–1970
- A Note on the Texts
- Elizabeth Varian (1821–1851–1896)
- Emily Hickey (1845–1881–1924)
- Katharine Tynan (1858–1885–1931)
- Autumnal
- August Weather
- Poppy
- Mater Dei
- To the Mother
- Joining the Colours
- The Long Vacation
- The Immortal
- Loneliness
- The Image
- Herbal
- The Vestal
- The First Thrush
- The Purblind Praises the Lord
- Any Woman
- For my Father
- To the Beloved
- For Lord Lucas
- Alice Meynell
- For Your Sake
- The Silent Time
- Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1893–1918)
- Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1898–1926)
- Emily Lawless (1845–1902–1913)
- Susan L. Mitchell (1866–1906–1926)
- Alice Milligan (1866–1908–1953)
- Winifred M. Letts (1881–1913–1972)
- Eileen Shanahan (1901–[1921]–1979)
- Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1929–1967)
- Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1933–1959)
- Sheila Wingfield (1906–1938–1992)
- Freda Laughton (1907–1945–?)
- Rhoda Coghill 1903–1948–2000
- Appendix 1: Irish Women Poets 1870–1970
- Appendix 2: Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
The Immortal
from Katharine Tynan (1858–1885–1931)
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Introduction: ‘Slow Tide on Tide of History’: Poetry by Women in Ireland, 1870–1970
- A Note on the Texts
- Elizabeth Varian (1821–1851–1896)
- Emily Hickey (1845–1881–1924)
- Katharine Tynan (1858–1885–1931)
- Autumnal
- August Weather
- Poppy
- Mater Dei
- To the Mother
- Joining the Colours
- The Long Vacation
- The Immortal
- Loneliness
- The Image
- Herbal
- The Vestal
- The First Thrush
- The Purblind Praises the Lord
- Any Woman
- For my Father
- To the Beloved
- For Lord Lucas
- Alice Meynell
- For Your Sake
- The Silent Time
- Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1893–1918)
- Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1898–1926)
- Emily Lawless (1845–1902–1913)
- Susan L. Mitchell (1866–1906–1926)
- Alice Milligan (1866–1908–1953)
- Winifred M. Letts (1881–1913–1972)
- Eileen Shanahan (1901–[1921]–1979)
- Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1929–1967)
- Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1933–1959)
- Sheila Wingfield (1906–1938–1992)
- Freda Laughton (1907–1945–?)
- Rhoda Coghill 1903–1948–2000
- Appendix 1: Irish Women Poets 1870–1970
- Appendix 2: Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
Here, where I went in and out,
I no more may come and go.
This with sweetbriar fenced about
Is another's garden, so
His the master's foot to come
In each dear, remembered room.
Such a blank, forgetting face
The house turns that was my house,
Where I built a little space,
As the birds build in the boughs.
But the birds—the birds are gone
And the vernal days are done.
Forth I fare that once would stay.
I have neither walls nor roof,
Being a traveller, blithe and gay,
For a world that's weather–proof,
Where no rust eats in, no moth
Frets the sacred altar–cloth.
Open, skies, and let me through.
Here I struck no roots to be
Fearful of all winds that blew.
There I shall grow a tree, a tree
Where, in calm and shining weather,
My birds and I shall be together.
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- Poetry by Women in IrelandA Critical Anthology 1870–1970, pp. 88Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2012