| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil). 1881– |
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| 121. I Am the Mountainy Singer |
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| I AM the mountainy singer— | |
| The voice of the peasant's dream, | |
| The cry of the wind on the wooded hill, | |
| The leap of the fish in the stream. | |
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| Quiet and love I sing— | 5 |
| The carn on the mountain crest, | |
| The cailin in her lover's arms, | |
| The child at its mother's breast. | |
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| Beauty and peace I sing— | |
| The fire on the open hearth, | 10 |
| The cailleach spinning at her wheel, | |
| The plough in the broken earth. | |
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| Travail and pain I sing— | |
| The bride on the childing bed, | |
| The dark man laboring at his rhymes, | 15 |
| The eye in the lambing shed. | |
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| Sorrow and death I sing— | |
| The canker come on the corn, | |
| The fisher lost in the mountain loch, | |
| The cry at the mouth of morn. | 20 |
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| No other life I sing, | |
| For I am sprung of the stock | |
| That broke the hilly land for bread, | |
| And built the nest in the rock! | |
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