The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan Poems V1 Poems: 1818-1837

by Chuto, Jacques; Holzapfel, Rudolf Patrick; MacMahon, Peter; Snodaigh, Patrick O; Shannon-Mangan, Ellen; Dushlane, Tadhg O; Kamp, Peter Van De; Mangan, James Clarence

• ISBN13: 9780716525608
• ISBN10: 0716525607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Table of Contents

General Introduction	xiii
Note on the Poetry Volumes	xv
Introduction to this Volume	xvii
1818
A verb and pronoun	1	(1)
My first is of essential use	1	(1)
1819
The head of a Heathen	1	(1)
Ye Bards of Hibernia	2	(1)
1820
Who is he? yon huntsman	2	(1)
Deprived of my foremost	3	(1)
1821
Be pleased, ye sons	4	(1)
Invert half my second	4	(1)
Why, mortal, admit you a ray	4	(1)
Ye wits of ancient Innisfail	5	(1)
Beware, Oh! man	5	(1)
The consort of Œdipus'son	6	(1)
When man draws near	6	(1)
1822
Bleak was the night	6	(2)
The land that we love	8	(1)
When in my drear foremost	9	(1)
My first by the cautious	10	(1)
Come, get the black, the mourning pall	10	(2)
What is this world	12	(1)
1823
Chains, bolts, and bars	13	(1)
I've often thought	14	(1)
My first is with the wildest flower	14	(1)
My love was young	15	(1)
Name a large body	16	(1)
The world, I hope, well knows	16	(2)
A cadence known to few	18	(1)
For thee, great Numberless	19	(1)
For the foremost, the Monarch of Persia	20	(1)
Hail to thee! Bard	20	(3)
See my first sitting younder	23	(1)
1825
An Address Extraordinary	23	(2)
Find out a class	25	(1)
1825
If the second in rank	26	(1)
I write upon a bland and breathless night	26	(3)
Queen Cleopatra felt	29	(1)
Who is he hurries	29	(2)
Earth around, the first is found	31	(1)
My first is keen	31	(1)
A very interesting point	31	(1)
What Blatty's famed for	31	(1)
1826
Eight Stanzas	32	(2)
How the pure night	34	(2)
There's nothing wonderful	36	(1)
Bards of this beautiful isle	37	(2)
It being a custom	39	(2)
Yesterday afternoon, o'erpowered	41	(3)
Genius:---A Fragment	44	(1)
1830
Song from Goethe	45	(1)
1832
Sonnets by an Aristocrat	46	(1)
When I reflected on the blazing things	46	(1)
The devil's in this wickedest of ages	46	(1)
To My Native Land	47	(2)
Goethe's Ballad of the Fisherman	49	(1)
Timid Love	50	(1)
If ev'ry man's internal care	50	(1)
How in the depth of winter rude	51	(1)
Sonetto (Thus with a still but stern solemnity)	51	(1)
Sonetto (Where is thine arm, Italia?)	51	(1)
The Assembly	52	(2)
1833
The Dying Enthusiast to his Friend	54	(1)
A Verye Splendidde ande Righte Conceited Dittie of ande concernynge the Newe Yeare	55	(3)
Three Charades	58	(2)
The first approaches very near a dozen	58	(1)
The first is Thrace's capital	59	(1)
The first is nothing	59	(1)
Trin. Col. Dub. Con. Mag.	60	(1)
Verses to a Friend	61	(2)
Sonetto (Yon nightingale)	63	(1)
On the Earthquakes of Sicily	63	(1)
Very Elegant Sonnets	64	(1)
A Fast Keeper	64	(1)
Symptoms of Disease of the Heart	64	(1)
1833
An Ode to the Comet	64	(3)
The Separation	67	(1)
The One Mystery	68	(1)
Brokenhearted Lays:---Number One	69	(1)
A Grand and Transcendant Ode and Acrostic	70	(3)
Enthusiasm	73	(1)
Life is the Desert and the Solitude	74	(2)
The Philosopher and the Child	76	(1)
Song (The summer sun hath often thrown)	77	(1)
To Death	78	(1)
1834
The Wrangling Wife	79	(1)
The Pilgrim	79	(1)
Covetousness	80	(1)
Sonnet: To Laura in Heaven	81	(1)
Sonnet (The man who never witnessed)	81	(1)
Curiosity	82	(1)
The Old Man	83	(1)
Lines to ***	83	(1)
To My Friends	84	(2)
The Opening of the New Century	86	(1)
Paganini	87	(1)
Sonnet (What now should bind me)	87	(1)
The Ballad of Leonore	88	(7)
The King of Thule (I)	95	(1)
The Romance of Don Gayseros	96	(3)
Song (O, strew the way with rosy flowers)	99	(1)
To the Beloved One	100	(1)
The Two Epochs	101	(1)
1835
The Maiden's Plaint	102	(1)
The Lament of Ceres	103	(4)
The Knight of Toggenburg	107	(2)
Song for Punch-discussers	109	(1)
Parables and Enigmas	110	(2)
In one wide Meadow	110	(1)
Knowest thou that Image	110	(1)
It whirls thee endless miles	111	(1)
A wide and vast and vaulted Dome	111	(1)
A Bridge arises glitteringly	112	(1)
The Maid of Orleans	112	(1)
The Philosophers	113	(2)
The Power of Woman	115	(1)
1835
The Sower	115	(1)
To the Author or the Artist	115	(1)
Head and Heart	116	(1)
The Fairest Side	116	(1)
The Impossible Union	116	(1)
The Present Generation	116	(1)
Saint Peter's Church	117	(1)
Anticipation and Retrospection	117	(1)
German Comedy	117	(1)
Philosophy and the Crowd	117	(1)
The Unrealities	118	(2)
His cheek burned with a red and redder glow	120	(1)
A Railway of Rhyme	121	(1)
The Lay of the Bell	122	(13)
The Message to the Iron-Foundry	135	(6)
To Ebert	141	(3)
To Giseke, on his departure from College	144	(1)
To my Grave	144	(1)
Song Exciting to Gladness	145	(1)
The Two Sorts of Human Greatness	146	(2)
Hope (Heyne)	148	(1)
The New-Year's Night of a Miserable Man	148	(3)
The Nondescripts	151	(1)
The Traveller and his Guide---A Tale	152	(2)
The Minstrel	154	(1)
Mignon's Song	155	(1)
The Violet	156	(1)
The Treasure-Seeker	157	(1)
The Diver	158	(5)
Stanzas (Most ills that are)	163	(1)
Sonnet (Bird, that discoursest)	164	(1)
The Demon-Yager	164	(7)
Sonnets	171	(2)
O, vain desires!	171	(1)
Father of Heaven!	171	(1)
Lost Venice lives	172	(1)
Eyes? No, they are not eyes	172	(1)
Life	173	(1)
Cheerfulness	173	(2)
The Grave (Salis)	175	(1)
A Lay of Life	175	(1)
Forget Me Not	176	(4)
1835
An Evening Landscape	180	(1)
Melancholy	181	(1)
Love's Reminiscences	182	(1)
A Song to the Beloved One	183	(1)
To Childhood	184	(2)
The Exile	186	(1)
Silence	186	(2)
Hope (Salis)	188	(1)
A Song for Cloud-Blowers	189	(2)
Man	191	(7)
Humanum Est Errare	198	(1)
1836
Extracts from Goethe's Faust	199	(5)
Lay of the Captive Count	204	(3)
The Alder-King	207	(2)
A Song from the Coptic	209	(1)
Another Song, from the same Coptic	209	(1)
An Irish Lamentation	210	(1)
Hassan Aga	211	(3)
The Rose	214	(1)
A Voice from the Invisible World	215	(1)
An Incident	215	(1)
Authors	216	(1)
The Cosmopolite	217	(1)
The Traveller	218	(1)
The Green Ass	219	(2)
The Advice of an Old Man	221	(1)
The Cuckoo	222	(1)
The Painter	223	(1)
The Music of the Spheres	224	(1)
The Raven	225	(1)
Pleasure and Pain	226	(1)
The Boy and the Stream	227	(1)
The Clock and the Sun-Dial	228	(1)
Ten Epigrams from Lessing	229	(2)
They say Myrtilla	229	(1)
The cellar, say our best philosophers	229	(1)
Bassus vows	230	(1)
For all that sundry scandal-loving creatures	230	(1)
Water overturneth houses	230	(1)
The usurer Gripus	230	(1)
Milo thinks his poetry	230	(1)
Sam hesitates	231	(1)
1836
The cobbler, Hans	231	(1)
Thou askest in amazement	231	(1)
A Sketch of the History of Poetry in Germany	231	(2)
Saint George's Knight	233	(3)
The Midnight Bell	236	(1)
The Wanderer's Chant	237	(1)
The Four Idiot Brothers	238	(2)
The Faithful Steed	240	(1)
The Ring	241	(1)
The Garden that Fades Not	242	(1)
Dreams	243	(1)
The Poet's Consolation	244	(1)
Where is my Home?	245	(1)
The Sick Man and the Voice	245	(2)
Who Has Made Thee So Ill?	247	(1)
Kepler	248	(1)
Schubart	248	(1)
The Love-Adieu	248	(1)
Ichabod! the Glory hath Departed	249	(1)
Life is the Desert and the Solitude (Tieck)	249	(2)
Man must be a Believer, where Love is the Deceiver	251	(1)
The Ways of Cupid	251	(2)
Stanzas to ****	253	(1)
1837
Wallenstein's Camp	254	(42)
Ball-Music	296	(3)
Song (Yes, cherish Pleasure!)	299	(2)
The Minnesinger	301	(1)
Light and Shadow	302	(1)
The German's Fatherland	303	(2)
The Metempsychosis	305	(1)
The Grave (Stolberg)	306	(1)
A Warning	307	(1)
Reverence Woman!	308	(1)
Be Merry and Wise	308	(1)
Tobac, Ho	309	(1)
The Fisherman	310	(1)
The King of Thule (II)	310	(1)
My Adieu to the Muse	311	(4)
Night Thoughts of Sin and Sorrow	315	(2)
Glockenklang	315	(1)
Levity	316	(1)
Judgment	317	(1)
The Twenty-Fourth of February	317	(47)
Lament	364	(1)
Saying of Nedschati	365	(1)
Proverbs	365	(1)
An hour of Good	365	(1)
The steed to the man	365	(1)
Thy thoughts are but Silver	366	(1)
Nought, I hear thee say	366	(1)
Touch all that falls	366	(1)
The Arab eats	366	(1)
Cast thy substance	366	(1)
One black pot	366	(1)
Saying of Kemalledin Khogendi	366	(1)
Saying of Djelim	367	(1)
Epigram to a Friend who had invited the Author to Supper and read to him a Book of his Ghazels	367	(1)
Epigram to Yusul ben Ali ben Yacoob	367	(1)
A Triplet on the Reign of the Great Sultan	368	(1)
To Miriam, on her hair	368	(1)
Passage transcribed by Ghalib	368	(1)
Saying from the Anthology of Daaji	369	(1)
Ghazel (Red are her cheeks)	369	(1)
Ghazel (Gone, gone, Sachaji)	370	(1)
The Time of the Roses	370	(3)
To Ludwig Uhland	373	(1)
Morning-Sadness	373	(1)
The Student of Prague	374	(3)
The Wandering Jew	377	(4)
The Aged Landmann's Advice to his Son	381	(2)
A Drinking-Song	383	(1)
Fragment of Another	384