| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| 166. The Sedges |
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| By Seumas O'Sullivan |
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| I WHISPERED my great sorrow | |
| To every listening sedge; | |
| And they bent, bowed with my sorrow, | |
| Down to the water’s edge. | |
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| But she stands and laughs lightly | 5 |
| To see me sorrow so, | |
| Like the light winds that laughing | |
| Across the water go. | |
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| If I could tell the bright ones | |
| That quiet-hearted move, | 10 |
| They would bend down like the sedges | |
| With the sorrow of love. | |
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| But she stands laughing lightly, | |
| Who all my sorrow knows, | |
| Like the little wind that laughing | 15 |
| Across the water blows. | |
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