The Young Mother
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
In dreadful times of tears and war
She sails, a little fixed star,
Or like a little ship she glides
With gentle winds and favouring tides
Up to the harbour bar.
Wrapped in all mild tranquillities
She muses: inward gaze her eyes;
And lest she slip upon a stone
Gabriel or some shining one
Guards her high destinies.
No rumour reaches her at all,
Beyond her safe encompassing wall,
Of a mad world that slays and slays:
She sees a little one that plays
And sleeps at evenfall.
She is in the House of Life: and where
She goes the angels bend to her,
A little secret garden-close,
Sweet with the lily and the rose,
With frankincense and myrrh.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABBA BXXXX CCBXC XDXXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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