General Introduction | |
Note on the Poetry Volumes | |
Introduction to this Volume | |
The Penance of Don Rodrigo | p. 1 |
The Two Envoys | p. 3 |
The Song of Harold the Bold | p. 6 |
My Three Plagues | p. 9 |
The Fatal Bridal | p. 10 |
The Fairies' Passage | p. 14 |
Rights of Property | p. 16 |
A Voice of Encouragement | p. 17 |
The Wrongs and Woes of Erin | p. 19 |
Hush-a-by Baby | p. 23 |
Unrest in the Grave | p. 26 |
Lament of Seanchan for the Death of Dallan | p. 28 |
St. Patrick's Hymn before Tarah | p. 29 |
Farewell to my Country | p. 33 |
A Vision A.D. 1848 | p. 37 |
Lochlan O'Daly, on the Suppression of the Monasteries | p. 40 |
The Marseillaise | p. 44 |
St. Columba's Hymn to St. Bridget | p. 46 |
Holy are the Works of Mary's Blessed Son | p. 47 |
Irish National Hymn | p. 48 |
The Eve of Saint Silvester | p. 50 |
The Tribune's Hymn for Pentecost | p. 55 |
Stavooren | p. 57 |
Wreaths for the Non-living | p. 59 |
The Devil and the Wind | p. 60 |
The Death-Garland | p. 62 |
The Santon and the Maiden | p. 63 |
Fidelity | p. 66 |
The Parricide | p. 67 |
The Treble Death | p. 69 |
Lament of Ferghaill Og Mac an Bhaird for his Visit to Scotland | p. 74 |
An Ode of Hafiz | p. 76 |
The Kalender | p. 77 |
Mother and Son | p. 78 |
Ellen a-Ruin | p. 80 |
Elegy on the Death of Sultan Suleimaun the Magnificent | p. 81 |
The Time ere the Roses were Blowing | p. 84 |
The Everlasting Jew | p. 85 |
The Irish Language | p. 88 |
The Disinterred Kings | p. 90 |
Denmark after the Battle of Copenhagen | p. 92 |
The Widowed Yew | p. 93 |
Paul and the Hospodar | p. 96 |
Look Forward! | p. 98 |
Panegyric of Thomas Dubh Butler, Earl of Ormond, between the Reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth | p. 100 |
The Vision of Egan O'Reilly | p. 102 |
The Tragedy of Ruaghri and Dearbhorgilla | p. 106 |
To the Munster Bards of my Time | p. 109 |
Duhallow | p. 111 |
Epigram - The Richest Caliph | p. 113 |
March Forth, Eighteen Forty-Nine! | p. 114 |
The Bard, Cathal O'Daly's, Keen for Owen Roe O'Neill | p. 116 |
The Funerals | p. 117 |
The Voice of Ferghall Mac Ward, from Alba to Ireland | p. 119 |
For Soul and Country | p. 122 |
Gasparo Bandollo | p. 124 |
Bear Up! | p. 128 |
Ghazel | p. 130 |
The Siege of Maynooth | p. 131 |
Words of Encouragement | p. 133 |
A Word in Reply to Joseph Brenan | p. 134 |
Let not the Gael Despair! | p. 135 |
The Famine | p. 137 |
Posthumous Poems | p. 139 |
All I have penned | p. 141 |
Should one of the stock of the noble Gael | p. 141 |
How clustering and green | p. 141 |
The Dame of the Slender Wattle | p. 141 |
Stricken and feeble | p. 142 |
A priest bade me marry | p. 143 |
The Brightest of the Bright | p. 143 |
Since born was GOD's Eternal Son | p. 144 |
The lands of my fathers | p. 145 |
A grave-stone lies above thee | p. 145 |
The Fair Hills of Eire, O! | p. 145 |
A Lament for the Fenians | p. 147 |
Moirin Ni Chuillionain (O'Tuomy) | p. 148 |
Spirit of Song | p. 150 |
O'Tuomy's Drinking Song | p. 151 |
Andrew Magrath's Reply to John O'Tuomy | p. 151 |
The Maiden | p. 153 |
A Reply to The Maiden | p. 153 |
A Whack at the Whigs | p. 154 |
The Flower of All Maidens | p. 155 |
The Mangaire Sugach's Pastime | p. 157 |
The Star of Kilkenny | p. 158 |
The Geraldine's Daughter (O'Rahilly) | p. 159 |
Georgey the Dotard | p. 161 |
Sighile Ni Gara | p. 161 |
Peter O'Dornin's Courtship | p. 163 |
Moirin Ni Chuillionnain (Anon.) | p. 167 |
Conor O'Riordan's Vision | p. 167 |
The Coolun | p. 169 |
Moirin Ni Chuillionnain (Cotter) | p. 170 |
The Little Bench of Rushes | p. 171 |
Caitilin Ni Uallachain | p. 171 |
A Welcome for King Charles | p. 172 |
The Virgin, Wife, and Widow | p. 173 |
A Health to King Charles | p. 174 |
White's Daughter of the Dell | p. 177 |
Donall na Greine | p. 178 |
The Return of the Wild Geese | p. 181 |
Isabel Ni Brian | p. 182 |
The Fair-Haired Child | p. 182 |
The Dark Fairy Rath | p. 184 |
The Dark Maiden of the Valley | p. 185 |
The Geraldine's Daughter (Donall na Buile) | p. 186 |
Leather Away with the Wattle, O! | p. 188 |
A Lament for Kilcash | p. 189 |
The Fairy Rath of Bruff | p. 191 |
Kate Ni Neill | p. 192 |
Black-Haired Fair Rose | p. 193 |
Little Black-Haired Rose | p. 194 |
Edmund of the Hill | p. 195 |
Mary my Darling | p. 197 |
The Wandering Exile | p. 198 |
Whiskey on the Way | p. 198 |
The Brown Sloe-Tree | p. 199 |
Edward Nagle's Vision | p. 200 |
Patrick Condon's Vision | p. 202 |
Conor O'Sullivan's Dream | p. 203 |
Donogh O'Sullivan's Reply to Conor O'Sullivan | p. 204 |
The Rev. Patrick O'Brien's Vision | p. 205 |
The River Lee | p. 207 |
Genius: A Fragment | p. 208 |
The False and the True Glory | p. 208 |
Watch the Clock | p. 210 |
The Bull Fight | p. 211 |
Still a Nation | p. 215 |
The Expedition and Death of King Dathy | p. 216 |
The Groans of Despair | p. 219 |
Moreen Cullenan | p. 220 |
The Nameless One | p. 222 |
Miler Magrath's Apostacy | p. 224 |
Have Hope! | p. 226 |
The Last Words of Theodore Korner | p. 228 |
The Barrier | p. 228 |
Consolation and Counsel | p. 229 |
The One Old Serpent | p. 232 |
When Hearts were Trumps! | p. 233 |
The Croppy's Ghost | p. 235 |
The Fated Three | p. 236 |
The Tribes of Ireland | p. 238 |
Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill | p. 254 |
A Poem | p. 255 |
The Pleasant Hills of Erin | p. 257 |
Farewell to the Wine-Cup | p. 259 |
All around me liveth still | p. 260 |
Oh! no one knows how much I sigh | p. 260 |
Brian's Lament for King Mahon | p. 261 |
Unpublished Poems | |
Lines, written at 16 | p. 263 |
Lines, written at 17 | p. 263 |
Fragments of a Romance, written at 17 | p. 264 |
Song, written at 18 | p. 266 |
Epigram (All things has Felix changed) | p. 266 |
Notes | p. 269 |
General Index | p. 309 |
Index of Titles | p. 311 |
Index of First Lines | p. 336 |
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