She Weeps Over Rahoon - poem by James Joyce, Composition by Ken Sullivan

“SHE WEEPS OVER RAHOON”
Poem by James Joyce
KEN SULLIVAN, Composer
AMANDA FORSYTHE. Soprano
ANNA REINERSMAN, Harp
She Weeps Over Rahoon - poem by James Joyce
Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling,
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling,
At grey moonrise.
Love, hear thou
How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling,
Then as now.
Dark too our hearts, O love, shall lie and cold
As his sad heart has lain
Under the moongrey nettles, the black mould
And muttering rain.
James Joyce, Trieste, 1913
From James Joyce’s book of poems called “Pomes Penyeach.”
Published by Shakespeare and Company, Paris (1927)