Laugh at Gilded Butterflies: A Selection of

In this selection by some of the world's finest poets, Ulick O'Connor has chosen poems from a wide variety of genres that he feels 'could bring a flash to the reader's mind', and Ulick also provides a short paragraph on each poem, its background, and author. A beautiful gift book, Laugh at Gilded Butterflies will be a treasure for any reader of poetry.

Dover Beach
Shancoduff
Never Give All the Heart
To Sleep
St. Francis and the Birds
Loveliest of Trees
from When We Two Parted
Where is the Friend
from The Hands of God
An Ulsterman
After Aughrim
The Battle Eve of the Brigade
Like the Touch of Rain
from Love is a Mortal Disease
from Annabel Lee
Piano
from Aubade
from For My Mother
from All Things Bright and Beautiful
from Into Battle
from The Bells of Shandon
The Deserter's Meditation
from The Petition of the Orangemen of Ireland
from Flowers of the Forest
Folia Caduca
Maternity
The Lamp Lighter
Remembering Yeats
from The Three-Coloured Ribbon
County Mayo
A Question
The Sash My Father Wore
from When I Was a Little GirL
from London Snow
from The Unwanted Statue
from Maire My Girl
from Clare Coast
from The Old Orange Flute
The Dead
The Coming of Spring
The Stars Sang in God's Garden
from Nobody's Friend
from The South Country
from Doctor Faustus
To the Beloved
At Mass
The Wine of Lovers
from Dublin Made Me
E. E. Cummings
from Autumn
from The Prelude
from The Little Waves of Breffny
They
Undertone
Clouds
from A Midsummer Night's Dream
from She Walked Unaware
from Last Fruit Off an Old Tree
Mangan, from And Then No More
A Glass of Beer
from The Goat Paths
Reconciliation
from I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
At the Mid Hour of the Night
from Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Mona Lisa
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The General
from Ulysses
from The Stars Stand Up in the Air
An Old Woman of the Roads
from O Bay of Dublin
from Felix Randal
The Pilgrim at Rome, The Church Bell in the Night, The Crucifixion
from An Austrian Army
A Jackeen Says Goodbye to the Blaskets
October
from Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Breakfast
from Ringleted Youth of My Love
from The Toys
Intimates
Blue Blood
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
from The Strand in Howth
from Ireland with Emily
from Fern Hill
from Carrigdhoun
Song for the Clatter-Bones
from Macbeth
When
The Zebras
from The Subjection of Women
The Second Coming
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Laugh at Gilded Butterflies: A Selection of Favorite Poems

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