Mo Ghrá-sa (idir lúibíní): English Translation

Mo Ghrá-sa (idir lúibíní)

Níl mo ghrá-sa

mar bhláth na n-airní

a bhíonn i ngairdín

(nó ar chrann ar bith)

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is má tá aon ghaol aige

le nóiníní

is as a chluasa a fhásfaidh siad

(nuair a bheidh sé ocht dtroigh síos)

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ní haon ghlaise cheolmhar

iad a shúile

(táid róchóngarach dá chéile

ar an gcéad dul síos)

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is más slim é síoda

tá ribí a ghruaige

(mar bhean dhubh Shakespeare)

ina WIRE deilgní.

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Ach is cuma sin.

Tugann sé dom

úlla

(is nuair a bhíonn sé i ndea-ghiúmar

caora finiúna)

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English translation of the poem 'Mo Ghrá-sa (idir lúibíní)'

My Love (between brackets)

My love is not

as a flower of the blackthorn

which does be in a garden

(or on any tree)

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and if he has any relation

with daisies

it is out of his ears that they will grow

(when he will be eight feet down)

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no musical stream

are his eyes

(they are too close together

in the first instance)

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and if it is smooth that silk is

the strands of his hair

(as the black haired woman of Shakespeare)

are wire little thorns.

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But that does not matter.

He gives to me

apples

(and when he is in good humour

a berry of a grape vine)

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