Poem of the Week: ‘A Flower Given to My Daughter’ by James Joyce
16 December 2024
Our Poem of the Week is ‘A Flower Given to My Daughter’ by James Joyce.
A Flower Given to My Daughter
Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave
Whose soul is sere and paler
Than time’s wan wave.
Rosefrail and fair – yet frailest
A wonder wild
In gentle eyes thou veilest,
My blueveined child.
‘A Flower Given to My Daughter’ by James Joyce is included in Poems and Shorter Writings.
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This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime.
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James Joyce was born in Rathgar, Dublin, in 1882. In 1904 he and Nora Barnacle (whom he married in 1931) left Ireland for Trieste. Abroad, free from the restrictions he felt in Ireland, Joyce felt compelled to write of his native land, producing Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (1916).
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