Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan

by Chuto, Jacques; Holzapfel, Rudolph; Kamp, Peter Van De; Shannon-Mangan, Ellen; Brown, Terence; Mangan, James Clarence

• ISBN13: 9780716527824
• ISBN10: 0716527820
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), the greatest Irish poet before Yeats, was for a long time both famous and unknown. While legends about him prospered after his death, his works remained largely unread. Only recently have his poems been collected by an international team of scholars and published by Irish Academic Press. It is from this four-volume edition that the present selection has been made. Containing upwards of 230 annotated poems, it provides the general reader with a more complete view of Mangan's many-faceted genius than has hitherto been available.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Editors' Note	xix
Come, get the black, the mourning pall	1	(2)
An Address Extraordinary	3	(2)
Eight Stanzas	5	(2)
Yesterday afternoon, o'erpowered	7	(3)
Genius:---A Fragment	10	(1)
The Dying Enthusiast to his Friend	11	(2)
Verses to a Friend	13	(2)
Very Elegant Sonnets	15	(1)
A Fast Keeper	15	(1)
Symptoms of Disease of the Heart	15	(1)
The One Mystery	16	(1)
Brokenhearted Lays:--Number One	17	(1)
Enthusiasm	18	(1)
``Life is the Desert and the Solitude''	19	(2)
The Wrangling Wife	21	(1)
The Ballad of Leonore	21	(8)
Song (O, strew the way)	29	(1)
The Unrealities	30	(3)
A Railway of Rhyme	33	(1)
Stanzas (Most ills that are)	34	(1)
Sonnet (Bird, that discoursest)	35	(1)
Life	35	(1)
An Evening Landscape	36	(1)
To Childhood	37	(2)
Silence	39	(1)
A Song for Cloud-Blowers	40	(1)
A Song from the Coptic	41	(1)
The Cosmopolite	42	(1)
The Traveller	43	(2)
The Raven	45	(1)
Sam hesitates	46	(1)
The Four Idiot Brothers	46	(2)
The Poet's Consolation	48	(1)
The Love-Adieu	49	(1)
Ichabod! the Glory hath Departed	49	(1)
Life is the Desert and the Solitude (Tieck)	50	(1)
The Ways of Cupid	51	(2)
The Minnesinger	53	(1)
The Metempsychosis	54	(1)
The Grave	55	(1)
Tobac, Ho	56	(1)
The Fisherman	56	(1)
My Adieu to the Muse	57	(4)
Night Thoughts of Sin and Sorrow	61	(3)
Glockenklang	61	(2)
Levity	63	(1)
Judgment	63	(1)
Saying of Nedschati	64	(1)
To Miriam, on her hair	64	(1)
Passage transcribed by Ghalib	64	(1)
Ghazel (Gone, gone, Sachaji)	65	(1)
The Time of the Roses	66	(2)
The Student of Prague	68	(3)
Ghazel and Song	71	(1)
Ghazel: The World	72	(1)
To Mihri	72	(1)
Genuine Ethereality	73	(1)
Double Trouble	73	(1)
Relic of Yusuf Scheiki	74	(1)
My heart is a monk	74	(1)
Song for Coffee-Drinkers	74	(2)
Relic of Prince Bayazeed	76	(1)
The Glove	76	(5)
The Game of Life	81	(1)
Philosophy and Philosopherse	82	(1)
The Real Arcanum	83	(1)
Consolation for Authors	83	(1)
To the Poet	84	(1)
The Grave, the Grave	84	(1)
A Cosmopolite	85	(1)
An Original Family-Picture	86	(2)
Pathetic Hypothetics	88	(1)
The Hundred-Leafed Rose	89	(3)
What is Love?	92	(1)
A-Trophy Taken from Love	92	(1)
To Zureida	93	(1)
Description of Morning	93	(1)
A Well-Delivered Speech	94	(1)
A New Moon	94	(1)
Lamii's Apology for his Nonsense	94	(1)
To Bakki	95	(1)
It is All One in the Turkish	95	(1)
The Last Resource	96	(1)
Have I not called thee angel-like and fair?	97	(1)
For, once I dreamed	98	(1)
The Affectionate Wife	98	(1)
The Dying Father	99	(1)
Knight of the Kitchen	100	(1)
Elegy on the Death of Tchao-king	100	(2)
Singular Duplicity	102	(1)
Hostile Engines	102	(1)
Tim Sullivan's Plea	103	(1)
Though Laughter seems	103	(1)
Lines on the Death of **** **** ****	103	(2)
I knew him!	105	(1)
All night and day	106	(2)
To Laura	108	(1)
The Lover's Farewell	109	(1)
My Home	110	(1)
The Days of Nourooz'iz	111	(1)
The Howling Song of Al-Mohara	112	(3)
Ghazel (I give God thanks)	115	(1)
Stammering or Tipsy Ghazel	115	(1)
Night is Nearing	116	(1)
The Daunishmend's Lamentation	117	(1)
The Time of the Barmecides	118	(2)
Love	120	(1)
Where art thou, Soul of Per-version?	120	(1)
The Erl-King's Daughter, a Danish Ballad	121	(2)
Twenty Golden Years Ago	123	(2)
The World's Changes	125	(2)
Let England's Old Womanhood tremble no more	127	(1)
Life and its Illusions	128	(2)
The Woman of Three Cows	130	(1)
An Elegy on the Tironian and Tirconnellian Princes buried at Rome	131	(6)
The Departure of Love	137	(1)
Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora	137	(2)
Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan	139	(1)
The Fox-Chorus	140	(4)
Noon-Day Dreaming	144	(1)
The Cat and the Looking-Glass	145	(2)
The Ride round the Parapet	147	(4)
O, Maria, Regina Misericordiae!	151	(2)
Gone in the Wind	153	(2)
The Castle over the Sea	155	(1)
The Grave-Digger's Chant	156	(1)
Love-Ditty	157	(1)
My River	157	(2)
Epigram (``Well, Pat, my boy'')	159	(1)
Pleasant Prospects for the Land-Eaters	159	(1)
The Three Half-Crowns:	159	(4)
The poet bewaileth his ill luck...	159	(1)
He proposes a plan...	160	(1)
He compares his debt to a small pimple...	160	(1)
He comes down with his petty penny-hammer...	161	(1)
He compares his case with that of Juvenal's...	161	(1)
He anticipates in fancy the occurrence...	162	(1)
He says that his Creditor is a more terrible sight...	162	(1)
He threatens finally to escape...	163	(1)
Iceland-Moss Tea	163	(2)
To a Skating Negro	165	(2)
Sand-Songs	167	(1)
Nature More Than Science	168	(1)
Where Are They?	169	(1)
Schnapps	170	(1)
The Coming Event	171	(1)
Lola	172	(1)
Von Blue-Beard	173	(6)
The Caramanian Exile	179	(3)
The Wail and the Warning of the Three Khalenders	182	(3)
Love and Madness	185	(1)
The Last Words of Al-Hassan	186	(2)
The Winninger Winehouse	188	(1)
And Then No More	189	(1)
Eighteen Hundred Fifty	190	(3)
The Ruby Mug	193	(7)
The Deserted Mill	200	(2)
Where's my Money?	202	(1)
The Bewildered Vintner	203	(3)
Love-Song (Not all are nightingales)	206	(1)
The Mariner's Bride	207	(1)
The Wayfaring Tree	208	(1)
Khidder	209	(6)
A Melancholy History	215	(1)
A Mystery	216	(1)
The night is falling	217	(1)
Wisdom and Folly	217	(1)
Rest Only in the Grave	218	(1)
Prince Aldfrid's Itinerary through Ireland	218	(3)
O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire	221	(3)
The Lament of Leeah Rewaan	224	(2)
To Haidee	226	(1)
The Queen of Spain	227	(1)
The Rye Mill	228	(2)
My Three Tormentors	230	(2)
St. Nicholas	232	(2)
Siberia	234	(1)
To the Ingleezee Khafir, calling himself Djaun Bool Djenkinzun	235	(1)
Dark Rosaleen	236	(3)
Shane Bwee; or, The Captivity of the Gaels	239	(2)
A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century	241	(2)
The Dervish and the Vezeer	243	(4)
Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga	247	(4)
A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry	251	(1)
The Saw-Mill	252	(2)
A Cry for Ireland	254	(2)
The Sorrows of Inisfail	256	(2)
Neither One Thing Nor T'Other	258	(3)
Farewell to the Maig	261	(2)
Love-Song (Lonely from my home)	263	(3)
The Hymn ``Stabat Mater Dolorosa''	266	(1)
Pompeii	267	(1)
Ellen Bawn	268	(1)
The Dawning of the Day	269	(2)
Song of the Albanian	271	(2)
Owen Reilly: A Keen	273	(3)
Snorro	276	(3)
Moreen: A Love-Lament	279	(5)
Hypochondriasis	284	(3)
The Testament of Cathaeir Mor	287	(5)
The Song of Gladness	292	(2)
Jealousy	294	(2)
My Three Plagues	296	(1)
The Fairies' Passage	297	(3)
Rights of Property	300	(1)
A Voice of Encouragement	300	(3)
Hush-a-by Baby	303	(3)
St. Patrick's Hymn before Tarah	306	(4)
A Vision A.D. 1848	310	(3)
The Devil and the Wind	313	(2)
An Ode of Hafiz	315	(1)
Mother and Son	316	(2)
Elleen a-Ruin	318	(1)
The Time ere the Roses were Blowing	319	(1)
The Vision of Egan O'Reilly	320	(4)
Duhallow	324	(2)
The Richest Caliph	326	(1)
The Funerals	327	(2)
For Soul and Country	329	(2)
Bear Up!	331	(1)
Ghazel (All that hath existence is etemal)	332	(1)
The Famine	333	(2)
The Dame of the Slender Wattle	335	(1)
The Brightest of the Bright	336	(1)
The Fair Hills of Eire, O!	337	(2)
O'Tuomy's Drinking Song	339	(1)
Andrew Magrath's Reply to John O'Tuomy	339	(2)
The Mangaire Sugach's Pastime	341	(1)
Peter O'Dornin's Courtship	342	(4)
The Coolun	346	(1)
The Little Bench of Rushes	346	(1)
A Lament for Kilcash	347	(2)
Whiskey on the Way	349	(1)
The Brown Sloe-Tree	350	(1)
The Nameless One	351	(4)
Notes	355	(37)
Index of Titles	392	(6)
Index of First Lines	398