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      A BOOK OF IRISH VERSE




           A BOOK OF

          IRISH VERSE

    SELECTED FROM MODERN WRITERS
       WITH AN INTRODUCTION
           AND NOTES
         BY W.B. YEATS

          METHUEN AND CO.
    36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON
               1900

        _Revised Edition_


    W.H. WHITE AND CO. LTD.
    RIVERSIDE PRESS, EDINBURGH


             TO THE MEMBERS

                  OF

   THE NATIONAL LITERARY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN

                AND THE

  IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF LONDON CONTENTS


                                                                   PAGE

  Preface                                                          xiii

  Modern Irish Poetry                                              xvii

  Old Age                     _Oliver Goldsmith_ (1725-1774)          1

  The Village Preacher            "        "        "    "            2

  The Deserter's Meditation   _John Philpot Curran_ (1750--1817)      3

  'Thou canst not boast'      _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_ (1751-1816) 4

  Kathleen O'More             _James Nugent Reynolds_ (   -1802)      5

  The Groves of Blarney       _Richard Alfred Milliken_ (1767-1815)   6

  The Light of other Days     _Thomas Moore_ (1779-1852)             10

  'At the Mid Hour of
  Night'                         "       "      "    "               11

  The Burial of Sir John
  Moore                       _Rev. Charles Wolfe_ (1791-1823)       12

  The Convict of Clonmel      _Jeremiah Joseph Callanan_ (1795-1839) 14

  The Outlaw of Loch Lene         "        "       "                 16

  Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear        "        "       "                 17

  Love Song                   _George Darley_ (1795-1846)            20

  The Whistlin' Thief         _Samuel Lover_ (1797-1868)             22

  Soggarth Aroon              _John Banim_ (1798-1842)               24

  Dark Rosaleen               _James Clarence Mangan_ (1803-1849)    27

  Lament for the Princes
  of Tyrone and Tyrconnell       "       "       "                   31
  A Lamentation for the
  Death of Sir Maurice
  Fitzgerald                     "       "       "                   41

  The Woman of Three
  Cows                        _James Clarence Mangan_ (1803-1849)    43

  Prince Alfrid's Itinerary
  through Ireland                "       "        "                  47

  O'Hussey's Ode to The
  Maguire                        "       "        "                  50

  The Nameless One               "       "        "                  55

  Siberia                        "       "        "                  57

  Hy-Brasail                  _Gerald Griffin_ (1803-1840)           59

  Mo Craoibhin Cno            _Edward Walsh_ (1805-1850)             61

  Mairgread Ni Chealleadh        "      "       "    "               63

  From the Cold Sod
  that's o'er you                "      "       "    "               65

  The Fairy Nurse                "      "       "    "               67

  A cuisle geal mo chroidhe   _Michael Doheny_ (1805-1863)           69

  Lament of the Irish
  Emigrant                    _Lady Dufferin_ (1807-1867)            71

  The Welshmen of
  Tirawley                    _Sir Samuel Ferguson_ (1810-1886)      74

  Aideen's Grave                "    "       "         "    "        91

  Deirdre's Lament for
  the Sons of Usnach            "    "       "         "    "        99

  The Fair Hills of Ireland     "    "       "         "    "       102

  Lament over the Ruins
  of the Abbey of Timoleague    "    "       "         "    "       104

  The Fairy Well of Lagnanay    "    "       "         "    "       107

  On the Death of Thomas
  Davis                         "