| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | A Broken Song | | By Moira O’Neill (1864–1955) |
| | | WHERE am I from? From the green hills of Erin. | |
| Have I no song then? My songs are all sung. | |
| What o’ my love? ’Tis alone I am farin’, | |
| Old grows my heart, an’ my voice yet is young. | |
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| If she was tall? Like a king’s own daughter. | 5 |
| If she was fair? Like a mornin’ o’ May. | |
| When she’d come laughin’ ’twas the runnin’ wather, | |
| When she’d come blushin’ ’twas the break o’ day. | |
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| Where did she dwell? Where one’st I had my dwellin’. | |
| Who loved her best? There ’s no one now will know. | 10 |
| Where is she gone? Och, why would I be tellin’! | |
| Where she is gone there I can never go. | | | | |
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