- Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse: Songs of the Irish Rebels and Specimens from an Irish Anthology, Some Aspects of Irish Literature, Three Lectures on Gaelic Topics, by Phoenix Publishing, 1924
- 1914
Naċ Aoiḃinn Do Na hÉiníníḃ
Naċ aoiḃinn do na héiníníḃ
D’éiriġeann go hárd,
’S ḃíonn ag ceileaḃar le ċéile
Ar aon ċraoiḃ aṁáin!
Ní mar sin dom féinig
’S dom’ ċéad míle gráḋ:
Is fada ó n-a ċéile orainn
D’éiriġeann gaċ lá.
Is báine í ’ná ’n lile,
Is deise í ’ná ’n sgéiṁ,
Is binne í ’ná ’n ḃeiḋlín,
’S is soillsiġe í ’ná’n ġréin;
Is fearr ’ná sin uile
A huaisleaċt ’s a méin—
’S a Ḋia atá is na flaiṫis,
Fuasgail dom’ ṗéin!
How Happy the Little Birds
How happy the little birds
That rise up on high
And make music together
On a single bough!
Not so with me
And my hundred thousand loves:
Far apart on us
Rises every day.
Whiter she than the lily,
Than beauty more fair,
Sweeter voiced than the violin,
More lightsome than the sun;
Yet beyond all that
Her nobleness, her mind,—
And O God Who art in Heaven,
Relieve my pain!