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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                         "    "       "         "    "       111

  The County of Mayo          _George Fox_                          115

  The Wedding of the
  Clans                       _Aubrey de Vere_ (1814)               117

  The Little Black Rose       _Aubrey de Vere_ (1814)               119
  Song                           "    "    "      "                 120

  The Bard Ethell                "    "    "      "                 121

  Lament for the Death
  of Eoghan Ruadh
  O'Neill                     _Thomas Davis_ (1814-1845)            135

  Maire Bhan Astor               "      "       "    "              138

  O! the Marriage                "      "       "    "              140

  A Plea for Love                "      "       "    "              142

  Remembrance                 _Emily Bronte_ (1818-1848)            143

  A Fragment from 'The
  Prisoner: a Fragment'          "      "       "    "              145

  Last Lines                     "      "       "    "              147

  The Memory of the Dead      _John Kells Ingram_ (? 1820)          148

  The Winding Banks of
  Erne                        _William Allingham_ (1824-1889)       150

  The Fairies                     "         "        "    "         157

  The Abbot of Inisfalen.         "         "        "    "         160

  Twilight Voices                 "         "        "    "         164

  'Four Ducks on a Pond'          "         "        "    "         166

  The Lover and Birds             "         "        "    "         167

  The Celts                    _Thomas D'Arcy McGee_ (1825-1868)    169
  Salutation to the Celts         "      "     "                    172

  The Gobban Saor                 "      "     "                    174

  Patrick Sheehan             _Charles J. Kickham_ (1825-1882)      176

  The Irish Peasant Girl          "    "     "        "    "        180

  To God and Ireland
  True                        _Ellen O'Leary_ (1831-1889)           182

  The Banshee                 _John Todhunter_ (1836)               183

  Aghadoe                        "      "         "                 186

  A Mad Song                  _Hester Sigerson_                     188

  Lady Margaret's Song        _Edward Dowden_ (1843)                188

  Song                        _Arthur O'Shaughnessy_ (1844-1881)    189

  Father O'Flynn              _Alfred Perceval Graves_ (1846)       191

  Song                        _Rosa Gilbert_                        192

  Requiescat                  _Oscar Wilde_ (1855)                  193

  The Lament of Queen
  Maev                        _Thomas William Rolleston_ (1857)     195

  The Dead at Clonmacnois        "       "        "         "       197

  The Spell-struck               "       "        "         "       198

  'Were you on the
  Mountain?'                  _Douglas Hyde_                        199

  'My Grief on the Sea'           "      "                          200

  My Love, O, she is my
  Love                            "      "                          201

  I shall not die for thee        "      "                          204

  Riddles                         "      "                          205

  Lough Bray                  _Rose Kavanagh_ (1861-1891)           206

  The Children of Lir         _Katharine Tynan Hinkson_             209

  St. Francis to the Birds        "        "      "                 212

  Sheep and Lambs                 "        "      "                 215

  The Gardener Sage               "        "      "                 216

  The Dark Man                _Nora Hopper_                         218

  The Fairy Fiddler             "      "                            219

  Our Thrones Decay           _A.E._                                220

  Immortality                    "                                  221

  The Great Breath               "                                  221

  Sung on a By-way               "                                  222

  Dream Love                     "                                  223

  Illusion                       "                                  223

  Janus                          "                                  224

  Connla's Well                  "                                  225A

  Names                       _John Eglinton_                       226A

  That                        _Charles Weekes_                      227A

  Think                           "      "                          227A

  Te Martyrum Candidatus      _Lionel Johnson_                      228A

  The Church of a Dream          "       "                          229A

  Ways of War                    "       "                          230A

  The Red Wind                _Lionel Johnson_                      231A

  Celtic Speech                  "       "                          232A

  To Morfydd                     "       "                          225

  Can Doov Deelish            _Dora Sigerson_                       226


ANONYMOUS

  Shule Aroon                                                       231

 