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)
- 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
- Burren, Co. Clare
- In The City
- Incantation In a Green Winter
- Spring Doggerel
- To His Ghost, Seen After Delirium
- A Blind Man Remembers Light Things
- The Mirror
- Dead
- Runaway
- When Yachts Are Racing At Dunmore
- Flight
- Epitaph For a Musician
- Appendix 1: Irish Women Poets 1870–1970
- Appendix 2: Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
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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)
- 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
- Burren, Co. Clare
- In The City
- Incantation In a Green Winter
- Spring Doggerel
- To His Ghost, Seen After Delirium
- A Blind Man Remembers Light Things
- The Mirror
- Dead
- Runaway
- When Yachts Are Racing At Dunmore
- Flight
- Epitaph For a Musician
- Appendix 1: Irish Women Poets 1870–1970
- Appendix 2: Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
Here have I drifted on a quiet wave
Of happening, that gently washes
Where Time's slow-flowing ocean flood has shaped
Age-old valley and hill.
Its waters, lapping still
About me in imagination, have
Confused my sense: so birds like fishes
Swim in the liquid air, and lichened bushes
Have turned to branching coral: sheep on the mountain-side
To flecks of foam left by an ebbing tide.
Forgotten, solitary,
The casual flotsam of an epoch I,
Where crumbling mortuary mounds
Of ancient men are found,
Who lie, long buried, leagues below
The cyclic ebb and flow
Of Time's refashioning,—drowned
Beneath slow tide on tide of history.
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- Poetry by Women in IrelandA Critical Anthology 1870–1970, pp. 249Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2012