In1910,Meyerpublished the copy of a short poem found in RIA MS 23 N 10(cat. no. 967). Another copy in British Library, MS Harley 5280, has not yet appeared in print. There is no translation of the poem, nor has it received any scholarly attention. The poem’s brevity may have led to it being overlooked by scholarship. This article seeks to fill this gap by providing an edition and translation of the poem, along with a discussion of the manuscript context, ascription, orthography, language and metrics. It also places the poem within its broader literary context by giving an overview of similarly themed poems, namely, those concerned with tears of repentance.² Such poems are valuable for their linguistic and lexical information and illustrate concepts of repentance in medieval Ireland.