ON AN ANNIVERSARY

by: John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

ITH Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen
We end Cervantes, Marot, Nashe or Green:
The Sixteen-thirteen till two score and nine,
Is Crashaw's niche, that honey-lipped divine.
And so when all my little work is done
They'll say I came in Eighteen-seventy-one,
And died in Dublin .... What year will they write
For my poor passage to the stall of Night?

• J.M. Synge (1871-1909) - A biography of the Irish dramatist.
• John Millington Synge - A biography of the Irish dramatist.
• Riders to the Sea - A synopsis of the play by John Millington Synge.