The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan Poems V2 Poems: 1838-1844

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: 9780716525752
• ISBN10: 0716525755
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-30
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

Publications by and about Mangan include James Clarence Mangan, His Selected Poems with a Study by the Editor Louise Imgogen Guiney (Boston, Lamson, Wolffe & Co., 1897); James Clarence Mangan, by John Desmond Sheridan (Dublin/London,The Talbot Press/G. Duckworth & Co, 1937); Selected poems of James Clarence Mangan, edited by Jacque Chuto, with a foreword by Terence Brown (Dublin/Portland, OR., Irish Academic Press, 2003); The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan, Poems: 1845-1847, edited by Jacques Chuto (Blackrock, Co Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1997); Selected prose of James Clarence Mangan: bicentenary edition, editors Jacques Chuto, Peter Van De Kamp, and Ellen Shannon-Mangan, with a foreword by A. Norman Jeffares (Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2004); and James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writing, edited with an introduction by Sean Ryder University College Press, 2004).

Table of Contents

GENERAL INTRODUCTION	xv	(2)
NOTE ON THE POETRY VOLUMES	xvii	(4)
INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME	xix
1838	1	(78)
Ghazel and Song	1	(1)
Ghazel: The World	1	(1)
Passage from Hudayi II	2	(2)
Ghazel ('Tis the goblet of Djim)	4	(1)
The City of Truth	4	(3)
To Mihri	7	(1)
Cast not Pearls before Swine	8	(1)
Dark Aspect and Prospect	8	(1)
An Incongruity	8	(1)
My Eyes!	8	(1)
Ex Nihilo Aliquid Fit	9	(1)
Genuine Ethereality	9	(1)
Double Trouble	9	(1)
Archers and Arches	9	(1)
Relic of Yusuf Scheiki	10	(1)
My heart is a monk	10	(1)
Cause and Effect	10	(1)
Treacherous Black Guards	11	(1)
A Nondescript	11	(1)
Song for Coffee-Drinkers	11	(2)
Saying of Saadi	13	(1)
Lament (My drooping heart)	13	(1)
Relic of Prince Bayazeed	14	(1)
Relic of Servi	14	(1)
I sang thee this	14	(1)
Passage from the Mulhimet	15	(1)
Invocation	16	(1)
Panegyric of Sultan Suleiman	17	(2)
Glory be to God	19	(1)
The Hostage	19	(5)
The Glove	24	(4)
The Words of Reality	28	(1)
The Words of Delusion	29	(1)
The Course of Time	30	(1)
Breadth and Depth	31	(1)
The Game of Life	32	(1)
Enigmas	33	(1)
I Of the fiercer snakes	33	(1)
II We form a strange groupe	33	(1)
III A Fabric was raised	34	(1)
Philosophy and Philosophers	34	(2)
Take thy Choice	36	(1)
The Real Arcanum	36	(1)
Why Time Flies	37	(1)
Life, Soul and Spirit	37	(1)
Startling Advice	37	(1)
The Desideratum	37	(1)
Common Pride and Uncommon Pride	38	(1)
Consolation for Authors	38	(1)
To the Astronomers	38	(1)
The Art of Style	38	(1)
Very Peculiar Prerogative of Genius	39	(1)
A Shrewd Discovery	39	(1)
Woman's Judgment	39	(1)
On Seeing an Aesthetical Sculptured Emblem of Death	39	(1)
Rather Queer	40	(1)
The Age We Live In	40	(1)
To a Self-Conceited Pamphleteer	40	(1)
To the Bachelor	41	(1)
The Use of an Enemy	41	(1)
To the Poet	41	(1)
To Poesy	41	(1)
A Twig for the Drowning	42	(1)
Modus Operandi of Genius	42	(1)
Light and Colors	42	(1)
A Contrast	42	(1)
To Wranglers for Systems	43	(1)
The Secret of Immortality	43	(1)
The Physical World	43	(1)
Speech v. Spirit	44	(1)
A Song concerning Rhenish	44	(1)
The Grave, the Grave	45	(1)
Tempus Fugit	46	(1)
Dessaulx is my name	46	(1)
A Cosmopolite	47	(1)
An Original Family-Picture	48	(1)
Mynheer Van Woodenblock	49	(5)
Pathetic Hypothetics	54	(2)
Andreas Hofer	56	(1)
My Heart	57	(1)
The Days of Childhood	57	(1)
Love and Wine	58	(1)
The Child of Care: An Apologue	59	(1)
Light and Warmth	60	(1)
Guide to Virtue	60	(1)
More Rhenish	61	(1)
Oh!--pierced with wounds	62	(1)
The Hundred-Leafed Rose	63	(2)
What is Love?	65	(1)
Epigram (Get silver ice)	66	(1)
Volto Sciolto e Pensieri Stretti	66	(1)
Haroun Al-Rashid and the Dust	66	(1)
A-Trophy Taken from Love	67	(1)
The Panegyric of Amrapolas, near Brusa	67	(1)
Orthodoxy, or the Doxy?	68	(1)
Opinions No Pinions	68	(1)
To Zureida	69	(1)
To Rayab Ana Sherehemiz, the Female Traveller	69	(1)
To Mailuka	69	(1)
Description of Morning	70	(1)
A Well-Delivered Speech	70	(1)
To Amine	70	(1)
To Amine Dead	71	(1)
Most Melancholic	71	(1)
Effects of Laziness	71	(1)
Epigram (My friend sat sad)	71	(1)
To Zelica	72	(1)
A New Moon	72	(1)
Lamii's Apology for his Nonsense	72	(1)
To Bakki	72	(1)
Relic of Sultan Amurath II	73	(1)
It is All One in the Turkish	73	(1)
Lines on the Launching of the Bashtardah	74	(1)
Wine Ghazel	75	(1)
Justice Alone is Eternal	75	(1)
Egypt	76	(1)
Opium and Wine	76	(3)
I In Praise of Wine	76	(1)
II The Drinker is Rebuked by Wine for Praising Opium	77	(1)
III Brandy Tells Wine not to Worry	77	(1)
IV Opium Panegyrizes Himself	77	(1)
V A Wordy Skirmish before the Battle	78	(1)
VI Opium's Defeat	79	(1)
1839	79	(79)
Make the Lion the Painter	79	(1)
The Hidden Treasure	80	(1)
The Last Resource	81	(2)
The Ghost and the Poet	83	(2)
Have I not called thee angel-like and fair?	85	(1)
For, once I dreamed	85	(1)
'Twixt Whacker and Thwacker	86	(1)
The Mayor and Clerk	86	(1)
"I'll cut this coat"	86	(1)
The Affectionate Wife	86	(1)
The Dying Father	87	(1)
The Bold Dragoon	88	(1)
The Happy Husband	89	(1)
The Charitable Widow	90	(1)
The Felon	91	(1)
The Casket	92	(2)
The Bottle Conjuror	94	(1)
Knight of the Kitchen	95	(1)
Epigram (Quoth Prince Pultrowski)	95	(1)
Fair child of Northern climes	96	(1)
Stanza from the Italian	96	(1)
Transoxanian Philosophy	96	(1)
Elegy on the Death of Tchao-king	97	(2)
Epigram (A costly pearl tea-urn)	99	(1)
To Zeneebah	99	(1)
"George! I'm thrown out of Berks"	99	(1)
In Vhy-no Veritas	99	(1)
To the Sun	99	(1)
The Nymph of Tea-ers	100	(1)
An Adder in the Grass	100	(1)
A Fall Arrested	100	(1)
Singular Duplicity	100	(1)
He Must Bite	100	(1)
All Fools' Dey	101	(1)
Mighty Odd	101	(1)
Hostile Engines	101	(1)
A Blowing East-Windian	101	(1)
Catching a Tartar	102	(1)
Tim Sullivan's Plea	102	(1)
Though Laughter seems	102	(1)
The Rule of Three In-Verse	102	(2)
Lines on the Death of **** **** ****	104	(2)
O! the fire is quenched	106	(1)
I knew him!	107	(1)
Mark ye well those crumbling castle-walls	108	(1)
All night and day	108	(2)
My Mausoleum	110	(2)
On the Occasion of the Truce	112	(1)
To Laura	113	(2)
The Lover's Farewell	115	(1)
Stanzas which ought not to have been written in Midsummer	116	(2)
Bamberg: A Drop-Scene	118	(2)
My Home	120	(1)
Live	121	(1)
The Three Dead Men of Harlkoll	122	(2)
Stanzas to ***** (Oh, no! no!)	124	(1)
Song (When the roses blow)	125	(1)
O, my Heart	126	(1)
The Best Blessing	127	(1)
Love in Death	128	(2)
Resolve	130	(1)
The Mighty Dead	130	(1)
Germany	131	(9)
Good Night, Good Night, my Lyre	140	(1)
The Meteor of Kasan	140	(18)
1840	158	(60)
The Days of Nourooz'iz	158	(1)
The Kiosk of Moostanzar-Billah	159	(2)
The Howling Song of Al-Mohara	161	(2)
Ghazzel by the Durweesh Fakrideed, of Klish	163	(1)
Stammering or Tipsy Ghazzel	164	(1)
There's not a bower in Eden	165	(1)
I will groan	165	(1)
Night is Nearing	165	(1)
The Daunishmend's Lamentation	166	(2)
The Time of the Barmecides	168	(2)
Kasseedeh (The dark red wine of Morn)	170	(1)
Love	171	(1)
Adam's Oath	171	(1)
Fronti Nulla Fides	172	(1)
Memory	172	(1)
A Fowl Spec.	172	(1)
On the Imam Ebusund	173	(1)
To a Turkish Author	173	(1)
To Sultan Murad II	173	(1)
To a Groaner	174	(1)
To Amine, on seeing her about to veil her mirror	174	(1)
Where art thou, Soul of Per-Version?	174	(1)
To Trash Gregg, on his Projected Pedestrian Crusade	175	(1)
Polycrates and his Ring, a Ballad	175	(3)
Thecla: A Voice from the World of Spirits	178	(1)
To a Mountain Cataract	178	(2)
Song of the Stars	180	(1)
The Revenge of Duke Swerting	181	(1)
Freedom	182	(1)
The Erl-King's Daughter, a Danish Ballad	183	(3)
Virtue's Triumph	186	(1)
Twenty Golden Years Ago	186	(2)
The World's Changes	188	(2)
"Among the Church's champions"	190	(1)
Go Ahead Straight	190	(1)
Alexander and the Tree	191	(2)
Asses	193	(2)
Let England's Old Womanhood tremble no more	195	(1)
When Arthur, Duke of Wellington	195	(1)
Thirteen Verse Epigrams	196	(3)
1 Cried the Bell	196	(1)
2 "Look up, In-Cog!"	196	(1)
3 Sing, hey diddle, diddle	197	(1)
4 Come, wise folks, now	197	(1)
5 "My tail is out of joint"	197	(1)
6 "Hard to get tenants now"	197	(1)
7 'Tis wonderful to think	197	(1)
8 The music of the Herald	198	(1)
9 Will the Bank Charter be renewed?	198	(1)
10 "Ned Bulwer," said Shaw	198	(1)
11 "Peel, what d'ye really think of Melbourne?"	198	(1)
12 As Larry Gough, the vintner	198	(1)
13 "Whan is the Hoose prorogued?"	198	(1)
Life and its Illusions	199	(2)
The Woman of Three Cows	201	(1)
Sighs of an Unloved One	202	(1)
The Divorced	203	(3)
An Elegy on the Tironian and Tirconnellian Princes buried at Rome	206	(5)
Sonnet--The Departure of Love	211	(1)
The Eagle and the Dove	212	(2)
The Field of Kunnersdorf	214	(2)
The Old Man and the Youths	216	(2)
1841	218	(44)
The Romance of the Count Alarcos	218	(5)
Lament for Alhama, and Death of the Moor Alfaquee	223	(5)
Life, Death, Eternity	228	(8)
Slighted Love	236	(2)
Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora	238	(1)
Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan	239	(1)
Spring Roses	240	(2)
The Jeweller's Daughter	242	(2)
The Golden Apple	244	(1)
Spirits Everywhere	245	(1)
Epigram ('Tis quite a pain to think)	246	(1)
Vale and Highway	246	(1)
A Sigh	247	(1)
Early Graves	248	(1)
The Sentimental Gardener	248	(2)
The Little Hut	250	(1)
The Fox-Chorus	250	(4)
Home-Sickness	254	(1)
To the Spirit-Seeress of Prevorst	255	(1)
Noon-Day Dreaming	256	(1)
The Bereaved One	256	(3)
About Schnax	259	(1)
Boerhaave	259	(1)
May	259	(1)
Hats V. Heads	259	(1)
The Cat and the Looking-Glass	260	(1)
The German Rhine	261	(1)
1842	262	(51)
To my Life-Ring	262	(1)
The Spectre-Caravan	263	(1)
The Lily-Maidens	264	(1)
The Ride round the Parapet	265	(5)
The Dying Flower	270	(2)
The Abduction of the Lady Gertrude von Hochburg	272	(9)
The Fair and Faithless One of Grailov	281	(4)
O, Maria, Regina Misericordiae!	285	(2)
Gone in the Wind	287	(1)
The Castle over the Sea	288	(1)
The Grave-Digger's Chant	289	(1)
Love-Ditty	290	(1)
To the Ghost-Seeress of Prevorst, after her Decease	291	(1)
The Sunken City	291	(1)
Sonnet: Lessing's Words	292	(1)
My River	293	(1)
The Secret	294	(1)
Charlemagne and the Bridge of Moonbeams	295	(1)
The Lion's Ride	296	(3)
The Brother and the Sister	299	(2)
Our First Number	301	(1)
Epigram ("Well, Pat, my boy")	302	(1)
Rayther Inconsistent	303	(1)
On Hearing that the Present Emperor of China is of a Tartar Family	303	(1)
Touching the Tariff and Income Tax	303	(1)
Pleasant Prospects for the Land-Eaters	303	(1)
The Three Half-Crowns	304	(9)
The poet bewaileth his ill luck in having contracted the debt of the Tre Giulii	304	(1)
He is of opinion that his Creditor would pursue him unto the isle of Sky	304	(1)
He proposes a plan of mutual accommodation to his Creditor	304	(1)
He wishes that the Jewish Jubilee could be re-promulgated in his time, that so he might get shut of his debt	305	(1)
He compares his debt to a small pimple, which by degrees grows to the magnitude of a cabbage-tumour	305	(1)
He assigns a philosophical reason why his Creditor should be harder-hearted than one living any where else	306	(1)
He comes down with his petty penny-hammer on the armour of the cabalistic giants	306	(1)
His opinion is that he attracts his Creditor towards him by a species of animal magnetism	307	(1)
He floors his Creditor in an argument on the immortality of the soul	307	(1)
He professes to know nothing about any thing except the fact that he owes Three Giulii	307	(1)
He accuses his Creditor of being more inhuman than even Hippocrates would permit a physician to be	308	(1)
He breaks out into the following shocking abuse of his Creditor	308	(1)
He compares his case with that of Juvenal's "Viator vacuus, qui coram latrone cantat"	309	(1)
He says that if the transmutation of metals were possible, he would content himself with coining Three Giulii	309	(1)
His Creditor is compared to a cat, which first plays with its victim and then slits its windpipe	310	(1)
He wishes he could have the eloquence of Cicero	310	(1)
He thinks his Creditor ought to admire even a refusal, if given in proper Spartan fashion	310	(1)
He narrates how Father Tyber takes the subject of his ditties in dudgeon	311	(1)
He anticipates in fancy the occurrence of one of the actual experiences of Baron Munchausen	311	(1)
He says that his Creditor is a more terrible sight than a Comet, because his movements cannot be calculated on before-hand	312	(1)
He tells his Creditor that the more he's dunned, the more he won't pay one stiver!	312	(1)
He threatens finally to escape into some desert, turn jackass, and live on thistles	313	(1)
1843	313	(15)
Iceland-Moss Tea	313	(2)
The Sheik of Mount Sinai	315	(2)
To a Skating Negro	317	(1)
The Alexandrine Metre	318	(1)
The King of Congo and his Hundred Wives	319	(1)
Sand-Songs	320	(3)
I Sing of Sand!	320	(1)
II Weapon-like, this ever-wounding Wind	321	(1)
III 'Twere worth much lore	321	(1)
IV Would I were the stream	321	(1)
V Gulls are flying	322	(1)
VI Mist robes the moss-grown castle-walls	322	(1)
Grabbe	323	(3)
My Themes	326	(2)
1844	328	(35)
Holiness to the Lord	328	(1)
The Bride of the Dead	328	(1)
Hope	329	(1)
Nature More Than Science	329	(1)
Forward!	330	(1)
Where Are They?	331	(2)
The Minstrel's Motherland	333	(1)
Durand of Blonden	334	(1)
Schnapps	335	(1)
The Coming Event	336	(1)
Lola	337	(1)
Von Blue-Beard	338	(6)
Stanza (See how those worlds)	344	(1)
Good Counsel	345	(1)
The Caramanian Exile	345	(3)
The Wail and the Warning of the Three Khalenders	348	(2)
Love and Madness	350	(1)
Heaven First of All within Ourselves	351	(1)
A Kasseedeh (I sought for the Prayerful Man)	352	(1)
The Thugs' Ditty	353	(1)
The Soffees' Ditty	353	(2)
The Fight of Ul-Walladj	355	(5)
A Lane for Freedom	360	(2)
Our Fatherland	362	(1)
NOTES	363