Cen áinius

Cen áinius
in gním hí do-rigé
an ro-charus ro-cráidius.

(without * pleasure / the * deed * it * (that) I have done / that * which I have loved * I have tormented)

No pleasure
in the deed I’ve done:
the one I’ve loved I’ve pained.

A verse from the romantic poem “Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir”, which tells of the psychologically complicated and eventually thwarted love affair of a woman and a man who were both poets.


Topics: Verse