Web16 Nov 2024 · Seamus Heaney's translation of the Gaelic poem of "The Yellow Bittern" by Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna AboutPressCopyrightContact … WebThe yellow bittern that never broke out In a drinking bout, might as well have drunk; His bones are thrown on a naked stone Where he lived alone like a hermit monk. 0 yellow bittern! I pity your lot, Though they say that a sot like myself is curst I was sober a while, but I'll drink and be wise For I fear I should die in the end of thirst.

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WebThe Bittern. by Walter Richard Cassels The reeds are idly waving o'er the marshy ground, The rank and ragged herbage rots on many a mound, And desolate pools and marshes deadly lie around. There is no life nor motion, save the winds that fly With the close-muffled clouds in silence through the sky, i aku shapeshifting master of darkness

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WebGwyneth Lewis. Bill Hyman. Gwyneth Lewis’s most recent book is Sparrow Tree (Bloodaxe Books, 2011). She has also written two memoirs, Sunbathing in the Rain (Flamingo, 2002) and Two in a Boat (Harper Perennial, 2007). Poems by This Poet. Prose by This Poet. Web'The Yellow Bittern' was later performed in Irish translation by both Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe and An Comhar Drámaíochta. See separate Playography entries. Synopsis A play about the famous 17th century poet Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, author of the classic poem 'An Bonnán Buí'. Play Type Plays General Number Of Acts One Act Cast Size Male 4 "An Bonnán Buí" is a classic poem in Irish by the poet Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna. In addition to the conventional end-rhyme, it uses internal rhyme ("A bhonnán bhuí, is é mo léan do luí / Is do chnámha sínte tar éis do ghrinn") – in the Irish language all the italicised elements have the same /i/ sound, a technique characteristic of Gaelic poetry of the era. The poem is in the form of a lament for a bittern that died of thirst, but is also a tongue in cheek … iakinthos tsilivi beach zakynthos