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A Book of Irish Verse

, by Yeats,W.B.

A Book of Irish Verse by Yeats,W.B., 9780415289832

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ISBN: 9780415289832 | 0415289831
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Copyright: 11/15/2002

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Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history.

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition

xiii

Preface

xvii

Modern Irish Poetry

xix

Old Age

1

(1)

Oliver Goldsmith (1725--1774)

The Village Preacher

1

(1)

Oliver Goldsmith (1725--1774)

The Deserter's Meditation

2

(1)

John Philpot Curran (1750--1817)

Thou Canst Not Boast

3

(1)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751--1816)

Kathleen O'More

3

(1)

James Nugent Reynolds ( --1802)

The Groves of Blarney

4

(3)

Richard Alfred Milliken (1767--1815)

The Light of Other Days

7

(1)

Thomas Moore (1779--1852)

At the Mid Hour of Night

8

(1)

Thomas Moore (1779--1852)

The Burial of Sir John Moore

8

(1)

Rev. Charles Wolfe (1791--1823)

The Convict of Clonmel

9

(2)

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (1795--1839)

The Outlaw of Loch Lene

11

(1)

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (1795--1839)

Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear

11

(3)

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (1795--1839)

Love Song

14

(1)

George Darley (1795--1846)

The Whistlin' Thief

14

(2)

Samuel Lover (1797--1868)

Soggarth Aroon

16

(2)

John Banim (1798--1842)

Dark Rosaleen

18

(2)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell

20

(7)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald

27

(2)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

The Woman of Three Cows

29

(2)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

Prince Alfrid's Itinerary through Ireland

31

(2)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire

33

(2)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

The Nameless One

35

(2)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

Siberia

37

(2)

James Clarence Mangan (1803--1849)

Hy-Brasail

39

(1)

Gerald Griffin (1803--1840)

Mo Craoibhin Cno

40

(1)

Edward Walsh (1805--1850)

Mairgread Ni Chealleadh

41

(1)

Edward Walsh (1805--1850)

From the Cold Sod That's O'er You

42

(2)

Edward Walsh (1805--1850)

The Fairy Nurse

44

(1)

Edward Walsh (1805--1850)

A Cuisle Geal Mo Chroidhe

45

(1)

Michael Doheny (1805--1863)

Lament of the Irish Emigrant

46

(2)

Lady Dufferin (1807--1867)

The Welshmen of Tirawley

48

(12)

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810--1886)

Aideen's Grave

60

(6)

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810--1886)

Deirdre's Lament for the Sons of Usnach

66

(2)

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810--1886)

The Fair Hills of Ireland

68

(1)

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810--1886)

Lament Over the Ruins of the Abbey of Timoleague

69

(2)

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810--1886)

The Fairy Well of Lagnanay

71

(3)

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810--1886)

On the Death of Thomas Davis

74

(2)

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810--1886)

The County of Mayo

76

(1)

George Fox

The Wedding of the Clans

77

(1)

Aubrey de Vere (1814)

The Little Black Rose

78

(1)

Aubrey de Vere (1814)

Song

79

(1)

Aubrey de Vere (1814)

The Bard Ethell

80

(9)

Aubrey de Vere (1814)

Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill

89

(1)

Thomas Davis (1814--1845)

Maire Bhan Astor

90

(2)

Thomas Davis (1814--1845)

O! The Marriage

92

(1)

Thomas Davis (1814--1845)

A Plea for Love

93

(1)

Thomas Davis (1814--1845)

Remembrance

94

(1)

Emily Bronte (1818--1848)

A Fragment from `The Prisoner: a Fragment'

95

(1)

Emily Bronte (1818--1848)

Last Lines

96

(1)

Emily Bronte (1818--1848)

The Memory of the Dead

97

(2)

John Kells Ingram (? 1820)

The Winding Banks of Erne

99

(3)

William Allingham (1824--1889)

The Fairies

102

(2)

William Allingham (1824--1889)

The Abbot of Inisfalen

104

(2)

William Allingham (1824--1889)

Twilight Voices

106

(1)

William Allingham (1824--1889)

Four Ducks on a Pond

107

(1)

William Allingham (1824--1889)

The Lover and Birds

107

(2)

William Allingham (1824--1889)

The Celts

109

(2)

Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825--1868)

Salutation to the Celts

111

(1)

Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825--1868)

The Gobban Saor

112

(1)

Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825--1868)

Patrick Sheehan

113

(3)

Charles J. Kickham (1825--1882)

The Irish Peasant Girl

116

(1)

Charles J. Kickham (1825--1882)

To God and Ireland True

117

(1)

Ellen O'Leary (1831--1889)

The Banshee

118

(2)

John Todhunter (1839)

Aghadoe

120

(1)

John Todhunter (1839)

A Mad Song

121

(1)

Hester Sigerson

Lady Margaret's Song

122

(1)

Edward Dowden (1843)

Song

122

(1)

Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844--1881)

Father O'Flynn

123

(1)

Alfred Perceval Graves (1846)

Song

124

(1)

Rosa Gilbert

Requiescat

125

(1)

Oscar Wilde (1855)

The Lament of Queen Maev

126

(2)

Thomas William Rolleston (1857)

The Dead at Clonmacnois

128

(1)

Thomas William Rolleston (1857)

The Spell-Struck

128

(1)

Thomas William Rolleston (1857)

Were You on the Mountain?

129

(1)

Douglas Hyde

My Grief on the Sea

130

(1)

Douglas Hyde

My Love, O, She is My Love

131

(1)

Douglas Hyde

I Shall Not Die for Thee

132

(1)

Douglas Hyde

Riddles

133

(1)

Douglas Hyde

Lough Bray

134

(1)

Rose Kavanagh (1861--1891)

The Children of Lir

135

(2)

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

St. Francis to the Birds

137

(3)

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

Sheep and Lambs

140

(1)

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

The Gardener Sage

141

(1)

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

The Dark Man

142

(1)

Nora Hopper

The Fairy Fiddler

143

(1)

Nora Hopper

Our Thrones Decay

144

(1)

A. E.

Immortality

144

(1)

A. E.

The Great Breath

145

(1)

A. E.

Sung on a By-way

145

(1)

A. E.

Dream Love

146

(1)

A. E.

Illusion

146

(1)

A. E.

Janus

147

(1)

A. E.

Connla's Well

147

(1)

A. E.

Names

148

(1)

John Eglinton

That

149

(1)

Charles Weekes

Think

149

(1)

Charles Weekes

Te Martyrum Candidatus

150

(1)

Lionel Johnson

The Church of a Dream

150

(1)

Lionel Johnson

Ways of War

151

(1)

Lionel Johnson

The Red Wind

151

(2)

Lionel Johnson

Celtic Speech

153

(1)

Lionel Johnson

To Morfydd

153

(1)

Lionel Johnson

Can Doov Deelish

154

(5)

Dora Sigerson

Anonymous

Shule Aroon

159

(1)

The Shan Van Vocht

160

(2)

The Wearing of the Green

162

(1)

The Rakes of Mallow

162

(1)

Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye

163

(3)

Kitty of Coleraine

166

(1)

Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke

166

(2)

The Geraldine's Daughter

168

(1)

By Memory Inspired

168

(2)

A Folk Verse

170

(1)

Notes

171

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