Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Where can I find this Celtic Poem?

There's a poem I found several years ago, it was quoted on the cover of a book. The book was a collection of Irish photography (published around the year 2000), and the poem was apparently some kind of old Celtic Sonnet. It's author was credited as "anonymous". Now I can find neither the poem nor the book on which I read it. I can partially remember some of the lines, it was like this:








I never dreamed that you would die


Until your horse came back to me empty….





....I found you under… (a tree or something)….


…no priest at your side…


...only the widow… whose scarf was around you…..





There was so much blood, I didn’t know what to do


I cupped my hands and drank it.








Another thing I remember about it is that some strange word was used in place of the word “scarf”. I had to look it up online at the time to find out that’s what it meant.


I’d really like to find this poem in its entirety. Can you help me?

Where can I find this Celtic Poem?
It's called Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire - (Lament for Art O' Leary - pronounced Kweena Art ee Leera). Have a look at these websites - I couldn't find one with a good explanation, and all the verses, so these sites either have one or the other. The first one has the best explanation of the story behind the poem.





http://books.google.ie/books?id=vDsAaXKL...





http://www.susanhatedliterature.net/2004...





http://frontpage.montclair.edu/dennisk/p...





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoineadh_A...
Reply:try 2 find a website that has poem google might help u find it


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