Eve

(From the Old Irish)

Original Text

The Poetical Works of Thomas MacDonagh (Dublin: Talbot, 1916): 71. 23697.12.20 Widener Library, Harvard University

2I that wrought my children's loss,

3I that wronged Jesus of life,

4Mine by right had been the cross.

5I a kingly house forsook,

6Ill my choice and my disgrace,

7Ill the counsel that I took

8Withering me and all my race.

9I that brought winter in

10And the windy glistening sky,

11I that brought sorrow and sin,

12Hell and pain and terror, I.

1] MacDonagh notes: "An Old-Irish poem of the tenth century. Of its four stanzas I have omitted one which I think worthless" (132). Back to Line

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

2005

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