Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba
By James Joyce
I heard their young hearts crying
Loveward above the glancing oar
And heard the prairie grasses sighing:
No more, return no more!
O hearts, O sighing grasses,
Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!
No more will the wild wind that passes
Return, no more return.
Trieste, 1912.
Copyright Credit: James Joyce, “Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba” from Pomes Penyeach. (Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927.) Public domain.
Source: Pomes Penyeach (Shakespeare & Co., 1927)