The Household Library of Ireland's Poets, with full and choice selections from Irish-American poets, and a complete department of authentic biographical notes. Collected and edited by D. Connolly

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. As the compilation of Poetry contained in this book has been prepared in the belief that its merit will sufficiently commend it to the public, an extended introduction to it is not deemed necessary. A few words bearing upon the character and influence of Irish poetry, and especially Irish national poetry, by writers whose authority to speak upon the subject is beyond any doubt, may, however, be given. And first, the glowing phrases of Thomas Davis, in one of his most eloquent and stirring national essays. " National poetry," he says, "is the very flowering of the soul, — the greatest evidence of its health, the greatest excellence of its beauty. Its melody is a balsam to the senses. It is the play-fellow of childhood, ripens into the companion of manhood, consoles age. It presents the most dramatic events, the largest characters, the most impressive scenes, and the deepest passions, in the language most familiar to us.

It shows us magnified, ennobles our hearts, our intellect, our country and our countrymen, — binds us to the past by its condensed and gem-like history, to the future by examples and aspirations. It solaces us in travel, fires us in action, prompts our invention, sheds a grace beyond the power of luxury round our homes, is the recognized envoy of our minds among all mankind and to all time. In possessing the power and ele ments of a glorious nationality, we owned the sources of a national poetry. In the combina tion and joint development of the latter, we find a pledge and a help to that of the former." One of the first creditable collections of Irish ballad-poetry was made by Charles Gavan Duffy, in 1845 — a period especially marked by the spirited literary revival attending the Young Ireland movement.

Speaking of the growth of Irish verse in English words, in his preface to that useful and unpretentious book (" The Ballad Poetry of Ireland "), Mr. Duffy said: — " Our Anglo-Irish ballads, like our best Anglo-Irish families, grew to be national gradually, but instinctively and half consciously. Before the time of Swift, they were chiefly written by followers of the Court. They were, of course, satires on the country, or carica tures on the manners and language of the natives. Swift snatched these weapons out of the hands of the English faction and turned them against their own breasts. He rescued our popular poetry from fribbles on the one hand, and from ignorant strollers on the other; and gave it a vigor and concentration which it never has wholly lost That strange tenacity of the Celtic race, which makes a description of their habits and propensities when Cæsar was still a proconsul in Gaul, true of the Irish people of this day, has enabled them to infuse the ancient and hereditary spirit of the country into all that is genuine in our

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. 4 modern poetry. And even the language grew almost Irish. The soul of the country, stammering its passionate grief and hatred in a strange tongue, loved still to utter them in its old idioms and cadences ; uttering them, perhaps, with more piercing earnestness because of the impediment, and winning out of the very difficulty an unconscious grace and triumph. Some of the nameless, indefinite charms that win every reader of genuine Anglo-Irish song are traceable to this source." Referring to Mr. Duffy's valuable little volume in his supplemental "Book of Irish Ballads,' which quickly followed it, one of Ireland's most successful poets, Denis Florence MacCarthy, admirably says: — "To us there can scarcely be anything more inteiesting than these snatches and fragments of old songs and ballads, which are the chapters of a nation's history.

Without these, how difficult would it be for the best disposed and the most patriotic amongst us to free our minds from the false impressions which the study (superficial as it was) of the history of our country, as told by those who were not her children or her friends, had made upon us. Instead of the rude kerns that anti-Irish historians represent our forefathers to have been, forever hovering with murderous intent round the fortresses of the Pale, we see them, in their own ballads, away in their green valleys and inaccessible mountains, as fathers, as brothers, as lovers and as husbands, leading the old patriarchal life with their wives and children, while the air is musical with the melody of their harps and the lowing of their cattle ; we see them hunting the red deer over the brown mountains, or spearing the salmon in the pleasant rivers, — or, borne on their swift horses, descending in many a gallant foray on the startled intruders of the Pale.

What is of more importance, we look into the hearts and minds of these people, — we see what they love with such passion — what they hate with such intensity — what they revere with such sacred fidelity. We find they had love, they had hate, they had loyalty, they had religion, they had con stancy, they had an undying devotion for the 'green hills of holy Ireland ;' and as such they are entitled to our respect, our affection and our imitation." All the conditions pertaining to Irish poetry — its inspiration, form, and expression — have, however, undergone very great change since the period thus referred to. The songs and ballads of the bards belong to a distant age, when all things except human nature itself were very different from those of the present time. To-day, the poetry of the Irish race, like the race itself, is widely scattered.

It may, indeed, be said to mingle with the literature of the world. Not only are the more popular Irish songs and ballads known in all civilized parts of the globe, but many of the most spirited poems relating to Ireland have been written thousands of miles distant from the sources of their inspiration. In the circumstances of its production, as well is in its most salient characteristics, the poetry identified with the Ireland of the present generation and the one preceding it, differs from that of every other country. All the poets of America, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, have written at home, but it has not been so with their brethren of Ireland. Even the most gifted of Erin's minstrels sang some of his sweetest strains in a country that was not his own. It is in America, however, which now contains in its o-reat national family so many millions of the Celtic race, that the largest and worthiest external contributions to Irish poetical literature have been made. Almost as much poetry that may be called Irish has been written in America during the past thirty or forty years as in

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. 5 Ireland itself. And it may with truth be added that the intrinsic value of the verse thus produced does not suffer by comparison with the poetry written in Ireland during the same period. This book, then, is designed to present as complete and varied a collection of the best Irish and Irish-American poetry as can be offered in a single volume of convenient size. Much time and care have been given to its preparation, and a distinct purpose to make it worthy of the title selected for it has guided all the research and other labor it has demanded. As an actual cyclopedia of the poetry of Ireland and the Irish race, it takes a place that has not hitherto been occupied. The various collections of Irish verse which have from time to time appeared have been restricted in character and material, and have, consequently, failed to meet the demand for a complete work of this kind.

An exception might, perhaps, be made in the case of the " Ballads of Ireland" compiled a generation ago by Edward Hayes; but in addition to the circumstance that it is now practically out of print, that collection contained very few poems written later than 1850, or by other than distinctively native Irish authors. The ground covered by it was, therefore, necessarily limited, and to the present generation the book is but little known. Much good poetry drifts hither and thither on the stream of fugitive verse, and, if not wholly lost, is likely to become forgotten. Many of the pieces here presented have been rescued from the oblivion that seemed awaiting them in this way. It is not improbable that some others of equal merit have escaped the Editor's search, bfl-^g may at least be said that the search has been made with an active desire to obtain all worthy poems of this class which it was possible to find.

It has not proved practicable to examine every publication in which such poems may have appeared, but all available means to discover good fugitive pieces have been employed, with results which, it is hoped, will be accepted as showing an impartial purpose in performing this somewhat difficult part of the work. In arranging the poems according to the theme or motive of each, rather than chrono logically, or by inserting all the pieces by each author in consecutive order, the Editor has followed the plan of the well-known " Household Book of Poetry," and the Library of Poetry and Song," edited respectively by Charles A. Dana and William Cullen Bryant. This has been done because the plan appears to be the most systematic of the many where on compilations of poetry have been prepared. It has involved much labor which could have been avoided by adopting any of the more usual methods ; but a desire for thorough ness in every respect has prevailed over all other considerations, and it is believed that the readers of the book will find the arrangement convenient and satisfactory.

A perplexing difficulty has been to find for each poem a place exactly suited to its theme, and this, it must be confessed, has not been wholly overcome. A few pieces may possibly appear mis placed, but in extenuation of this fault it may be said that a gem is usually valued for itself, without special reference to its setting. If the divisions were ten times the number they are, some poems might still seem to be out of their proper place. It will be observed that the part of the book occupied by humorous verse is not large. It could easily be extended by inserting pieces of the kind called " comic," whereof there is an offensive and quite unnecessary abundance. But this kind of verse is, in the main, merely vulgar, and wholly unfit for admittance into decent company. Much of it that

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. passes as Irish is not Irish at all, but was written by persons totally incapable of giving, in song or otherwise, the peculiar and elusive lights and shades of true Irish humor. Some, however, is due to writers of Irish birth, who could easily have found better use for such talent as they possessed than to exercise it for the gratification of depraved tastes, whether among their own people or others. All verse of this class is rigorously excluded from the present compilation, as it should be from every book having the slightest claim to a respec table character As a few of the writers introduced are but remotely Irish, the propriety of introducing them at all may possibly be questioned. It should, therefore, be said that no broader claim than the circumstances warrant is made in the case of any of these.

They are not presented as Irish, but simply as poets who are partly, at least, of Irish extraction. It would be obviously absurd, for example, to put the name of Mrs. Whitman or Dr. English on a list of Irish poets, the blood of each having been well mixed on American soil. A kindred state ment may be made with reference to a few who were born in England. Any reader who is curious to know why such writers are included in the book will find the reason set forth in the Biographical Notes. The lines of Irish connection are there plainly and carefully drawn. No effort has been spared to make the Biographical Notes full and accurate in all essential respects. They are compiled from the results of diligent inquiry and research, and can be commended as strictly authentic. It is not supposed that all readers of the poems will consult them, but it is believed that those who do so will thereby enhance their appre ciation of the book as a whole.

In some cases the notes have a direct bearing on the poems, and the author and his verses should be brought together to assure a proper under standing of his motive. So far as the Editor is aware, the plan of giving what is substan tially a dictionary of authors, in a special department, has not hitherto been used in a book of this character. The work now completed was undertaken solely from a conviction that it needed to be done. Several schemes similar in purpose to the one it represents have been projected from time to time, but the work itself has remained unperformed. In the form in which it now stands, it represents several years of labor, pursued with a fixed purpose to reach a worthy end. It doubtless contains some defects, but not many books of the class to which it belongs are perfect in the eyes of all who read them.

All that can be desired is, that it will be judged with fairness, and received with such favor as it may deserve. It is, at all events, the first complete compilation of good Irish and Irish- American poetry that has been placed before the public. In the course of its preparation much valuable aid has been rendered by various friendly hands, both in Ireland and throughout the United States. For all such assistance, which has in some instances amounted to cooperation, and for many courtesies kindly extended by publishers, the Editor's most cordial thanks are due. An undertaking in which much pleasure has lightened labor is now closed, but its results, it is hoped, will endure. D. C New York, AUPHORS 7 O Poet Prophets ! God hath sent ye forth With lips made consecrate by altar fire, To guide the Future, not to tread the Past ; To chant in glorious music Man's great Hymn, The watchword of Humanity — Advance !

Advance in Wisdom, Nobleness and Truth, Higli aims, high purposes and self-control, Which is self-reverence, knowing we shall stand With crowned angels before God's great throne. The Poet nerves the arm to do great deeds, Inspires great thoughts, flings o'er the tears of life The rainbow-arch, to save us from despair ; Quickens the stagnant energies to act. Bears the advancing banner of the age, Full in the van of all Humanity ; And with a strength God-given, rolls the stone, As angels may, from off the sepulchre Where souls lie bound, bidding them rise and live. Lady Wilde. INDEX OF AUTHORS. PAGE Alexander, Cecil Frances. Born in Ireland. The Little Sister's Song 135 The Lonely Flower 318 The Burial of Moses 709 Alexander, William (Bishop). Born in Ireland, 1824. Sonnets on Memory 240 Death of an Arctic Hero 6-14 Below and Above 684 Allingham, William.

Born in Ireland, 1828. Oh ! Were my Love 43 Lovely Mary Donnelly 55 The Milkmaid 63 Among the Heather 84 The Pilot's Pretty Daughter 90 Lullaby r33 The Bright Little Girl 135 To the Nightingales 1 5° The Winding Banks of Erne 176 Abbey Assaroe J 89 The Touchstone 2I4 The Ruined Chapel 263 The Maids of Elfinmere 335 The Fairy Shoemaker 351 I'AGE . Lady Alice 574 The Abbot of Innisfallen 713 Anster, John. Born in Ireland, 1793 ; died, 1867. Oh ! If as Arabs Fancy ' 80 The Fairy Child 138 The Everlasting Rose 156 Walpurgis Night 376 Dirge Song 613 Armstrong, Edmund John. Born in Ireland, 1841 ; died, 1865. Suspiria 132 To Wicklow 191 A Dedication 319 Among the Slain 578 Mary of Clorah 615 Armstrong, George Francis. Born in Ireland, 1845. A Man's Devotion 113 Wicklow 190 In Meditation 316 The Singer 329 The Satyr 375 The Wreck off M izen Head 500 The Glen of the Horse 501 Work Song LVD EX OF AUTHORS.

PAGE PAGE Slain in the Forefront 601 The Christ 662 A Psalm of Hope 685 Ashe, Isaac A physician, born in Ireland. When my Love is Failing 6S2 Banim, John. Born in Ireland, 1798 ; died, 1842. Ailleen ." 68 Soggarth Aroon 232 Barry, Michael Joseph. Born in Ireland ; wrote in '48 period. Bide Your Time 416 The Place to Die 451 The Wexford Massacre 618 Beamish, Florence. Sleep on, Mavourneen 71 Berkeley, George (Bishop). Born in Ireland, 1684; died, 1753. The Course of Empire 215 Blacker, William. Born in Armagh, Ire., 1775 ; died in 1855. Oliver's Advice 471 The Nativity 678 Blake, Mary E. Born in Ireland ; — Boston, Mass. Away From Home .. 118 The Little Sailor Kiss 133 A Little Mother's Lesson 140 Morning 163 Twilight 164 Compensations 232 Singing and Sighing ... 329 Our Record 425 Going and Coming 496 A Dead Summer 566 The Birthnight 626 Botta, Anne Charlotte Lynch.

Born in Vermont ; — New York. By the Sea 166 Books 212 Accordance 219 Sweetness 219 Wasted Fountains 224 Paul at Athens 711 Boucicault, Dion. Born in Dublin, 1822. The Wearing of the Green 432 BOVI.K, ESMERAI.HA. Born near Washington, D.C. Unison 680 Boyle, John. Born in Ireland, about 1822 ; died, 1885. Object Lessons for Eithna 135 The Voice of Spring 144 The Robin Redbreast 14S My Argosy 223 San Salvador 273 Minnie Beck 315 To the Lyre 33' To Ireland 389 Address to a Patriot 444 Arthur McCoy 454 The Knight's Remorse 574 Indications 692 Brenan, Joseph. Born in Ireland, 1828 ; died, 1857. Not for Rank or Gold 48 Come to me, Dearest 106 Florence, my Child 12S Blindness 213 A Prison Dream 236 Oblivion 238 An Exile's Dream 411 Bronte, Charlotte. Born in England, 1816; died, 1855. Preference 85 Life 221 Evening Solace 293 Bronte, Emily.

Born in England, 1818 ; died, 1848. A Day Dream 321 To Imagination 372 Brooke, R. S. (Rev.). An Episcopal Rector, born in Ireland. Light and Shade 693 Brougham, John. Born in Ireland, 1810; died, 1880. Polly O'Connor 61 My ain Donald 89 The Hymn of Princes. 250 Peace and War 251 The Sword of Fontenoy 469 Brown, Frances. Born in Ireland, 1S16 ; died. 1879. Absent Children 130 If That Were True 212 The Winters 230 The Pleasant Days of Old 237 What Hath Time Taken ? 245 Songs of Our Land 401 Losses 566 The Four Travellers PACE Brown, John Patrick. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., 1839. The Wedding — a Duet 172 Gives 222 The Color Bearer 497 Buckley, R. \V. (Rev.). Appears in " Lyra Hibernica Sacra " as Curate of St. Peter's, Dublin. Evensong 687 King Edwin 711 Butler, Thomas Ambrose (Rev.). Born in Ireland, 1837;— St. Louis, Mo.

The Lost Home 1 1 S Butler, William Archer (Rev.). Born in Ireland, 1814 ; died, 1847. On a Child at Play 127 Song of the Streams 173 The Patriarchal Time 684 Callanan, Helena. Born in Ireland, about 1864. Withered Flowers 31S Saint Agnes 702 Callanan, James Joseph. Born in Ireland, 1795 ; died, 1829. Gougane Barra 184 Sweet Avondu 180 Lines to Erin 394 Dirge for O'Sullivan Beare 648 Pure is the Dewy Gem 694 Mary Magdalen 698 Campion, John T. A physician, born in Ireland. Charity 294 fjood Morning 319 Carleton, William. Born in Ireland, 1794 ; died, 1869. My Mountain Glens 192 The Churchyard Bride 357 Carpenter, Henry B. (Rev.). Born in Ireland, 1840; — Boston, Mass. Vive Valeque 636 Beyond the Snow 690 Carroll Malone. This writer's name was McBiraey. The Orangeman's wife 620. Casey, John Keegan.

Born in Ireland, 1846 ; died, 1870. Song of Golden Headed Niamh 86 Donal Kenny 90 Christmas Memories 124 The Missioner 21S Our Noble Irish Girls 314 PAGE I low Have Ve Labored? 414 The Rosemary Crown 420 The Rising of the Moon 458 Cassidy, Patrick Sarsfiei.d. Born in Ireland; — New York. The Sovereign People 510 Robert Emmet 633 Charlotte Elizabeth. Authoress of the " Siege of Derry," etc. The Maiden City 474 Cherry, Andrew. Born in Ireland, 1762 ; died 1812. The Bay of Biscay, O ! 172 The Green Little Shamrock ... 302 Csarke, Joseph I. C. Born in Ireland ; — New York. A Decade of Love 44 Speculum Vitæ 250 Waiting for Washington 488 Cleary, T. S. Born in Ireland. Sledge and Pen 517 Collier, Thomas Stephens. Born in New York, 1842. Sun Glow 161 Recompense 230 Three Sonnets 240 What is the Gain ? 248 Sacrilege 256 Sun Burst 421 Collins, William.

Born in Ireland ; — New York. Our Own Land 399 The Ride to Arboe 455 Moylan at Monmouth 489 Connolly, Daniel. Born in Ireland ;— Xew York. Trout Fishing 1 74 Memories of the Erne 178 Compensation 231 Jasper Dean 266 The Eyes of an Irish Girl 314 Erina Regina 386 A Lay Sermon ... 412 The Leap for Life 460 Evicted 5S8 One Summer Night 601 Mitchel — 1875 629 Connolly, Olivia Knight. Born in Ireland ; — Australia. Where are the Knights .'. . 305 Sympathies PAGE PAGE The Story of a Star 298 Seed Time and Harvest 420 The Green Flag 431 St. John's Eve 715 Conway, Katherine Eleanor. Born in Rochester. X. Y.. 1853. Remembered 77 A Song in May Time 146 Blooming out of Time 1 56 In a Strange Land 220 Out of the Shadow of Death 389 Another June 564 A Memory 565 My Father's House 683 Lotus and Lily 688 Cowan, Samuel K. Born in Ireland. 1850.

Becalmed 262 The Buried Bells 264 The Voice of the Wind 320 Easter Voices . 679 Harvest Time 690 Cowan. William (Rev.). An Episcopal clergyman, Diocese of Derry. Christmas 677 Crawford. Julia. Born in Ireland. We Parted in Silence 77 Dublin Bay 584 Crilly, Daniel. Born in Ireland. The Men of To-day 425 Toast-Song 440 Croker, Thomas Crofton. Born in Ireland, 1798; died 1854. Cormac and Mary 34S Croly, George (Rev . I. Born in Ireland, 1780; died 1860. Hymn of the Universe 143 The Alhambra 197 Messolonghi's Ruins 198 Pericles and Aspasia . 257 The Atlantic 338 Leonidas 486 A Dirge 666 Ckonin, Patrick (Rev.). Born in Ireland, 1637 ; — Buffalo, NA . The Wanderer's Home 120 After Ten Years 299 Marquette 646 Sursum Corda 665 The Two-fold May 689 The Unsound 699 Cunningham. John. Born in Dublin, 1729 ; died 1773.

If I Were Not Too Voung 60 A Pastoral 84 Curran, Henry- Grattan. Eorn in Ireland. The Wearing of the Green 432 Curran, John PuiLroT. Born in Ireland, 1750 ; died 1817. Cushla Ma-Chree 395 The Monksof the Screw 539 Cusack, Mary F. Widely known as the " Nun of Kenmare." In te Christe 661 Darley, George. Born in Ireland. 17S5 ; died 1846. Love Song 45 Steeds of the Ocean 170 The Fairy Cavalcade 349 Davis, Eugene. Born in Ireland, 1857, Our Vow 415 Queries 442 Davis, Francis. Born in Ireland, 1810; died. 1885. Nanny 60 My K;dla dhu Asthore 65 My Betrothed 72 A Visit of the Beautiful 147 Caste and Creed 216 Willie's Mother 589 Kathleen Ban Adair 619 Davis, Thomas. Born in Ireland, 1814; died 1845. The Banks of the Lee 47 Fanny Power. 58 Maire Bhan Astor 65 The Welcome 83 O, the Marriage 105 My Grave 403 The Penal Days 421 Our Own Again 426 The Green Above the Red 430 The Geraldines 433 O'Brien of Arra _j;2 Fontenoy 41,7 The Sack of Baltimore 5S0 Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill 647 Dermodv, Thomas.

Born in Ireland, 1775 ; died, 1802. The Pleasures of Poesy 323 On Songs 326 Sons of Hapless Erin -gj PAGE PAGE Desmond, Daniel. Born in Ireland. Oasis 250 Wise Passiveness 291 The Toilers 519 The Singer's Plea 2gi The Inner Life 6g4 De Vere, Aubrey (Sir). Born in Ireland, 1788 ; died, 1846. Dowling, Bartholomew. Born in Limerick, Ireland. Glengariff 170 Sad and Sweet 2og The Brigade at Fontenoy 468 Columbus 275 Dowling, Jeremiah J. A Physician, born in Tipperary. Early Friendship 297 Sing the Old Song 325 The Claddagh Boatman 300 De Vere, Aubrey Thomas. Born in Ireland, 1814 ; died. 1883. Dowling, Richard. Born in Ireland, 1846. Florence Maccarthy's Farewell 44 Good-Bye 78 Implicit Faith 214 The Bohemian's Ballad 330 Queen Margaret's Feasting 252 The Old Land 3gg Downing, Ellen. The Intercession 403 Born in Ireland about 1830.

The Three Woes 417 Talk by the Blackwater 6g The Music of the Future 418 Conal and Eva 73 The Dirge of Athunree 437 Welcome Home to You 88 A Ballad of Athlone 451 Were I But His Own Wife 107 The Faithful Norman 454 The Old Castle l8g Good Hearted 603 Drennan, William. Grattan 624 Born in Ireland, 1754 ; died, 1820. Stella Matutina 674 Charity to Man 2g5 DeVere, Mary Ainge Born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Erin 3gi The Wake of William Orr 645 The False Oracle 75 Drew, Thomas (Rev.). A Marriage 75 Born in Limerick, 1800; died, 1857. A Quiet House 121 Life's Last Hour ' 670 The Spinner 220 A Poor Mother 243 Drummond, William Hamilton. Born in Ireland, 1778 ; died, 1865. The Wind-swept Wheat . . . .' 26S De Vere, Stephen (Sir). Of the family of Aubrey De Vere. The Bed of Ocean i6g Old Age 673 Who is the Foe 674 To Mæcenas 226 Intactis Opulentior 227 Dufferin, Helen Selina (Lady).

Born in 1807 ; died in 1867. Doheny, Michael. Jvatey's Letter 53 Born in Ireland; active in '48 movement ; died in America. Sweet Kilkenny Town 54 Acushla Gal Machree 3g7 The Irish Emigrant's Lament 5go Donnelly, Eleanor C. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. Duffy, Charles Gavan (Sir). Born in Ireland, 1816. Sweet Sybil 56 The Poet's Little Rival 131 O'Donnell and the Fair Fitzgerald 94 The Patriot's Bride nt The Sleeper's sail 356 The Fate of the Fairy Swan 368 Song of Innishowen 194 St. Columba and the Stork 405 A Lay Sermon 215 Missing 603 The Voice of Labor 520 The Heavenly Fatherland 687 Dowden, Edward. Born in Ireland, 1843. Egan, Maurice Francis. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., 1852. A Dream 46 The Anxious Lover 40 In the Garden 161 Cyclops to Galatea PAGE PAGE Dangerous Frankness 113 Flood, Henry.

When Mothers Watch 131 Born in Ireland, 1732 ; died, 1791. The Bitter Sweet 242 O, Mighty Fame 259 Maurice de Guerin 255 Forrester, Arthur M. Born in Ireland, 1850; — New York. Theocritus 2go Fra Angelico 256 The String of the Rosary 672 Old Boreen 301 The Felons of our Land 440 Emmet, Robert. The Three Ivnights 499 Born in 1778 ; died in 1803. Arbor Hill 192 Forrester, Ellen. English, Thomas Dunn. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., 1819. Born in Ireland, 1831 ; died, 18S3. The Mother's Warning 81 The Bonnie Gray Mare 82 Lullaby 134 A Letter from Home 120 Song of Fire 202 Ben Bolt 298 The Widow's Message to her Son 233 Akeratos 256 Friends across the Sea 297 The Fight at Lexington 490 The Songs of Long Ago 326 Jack, the Regular 4g2 God Help the Poor 5ig The Charge by the Ford 497 Forrester, Fanny.

Fahy, Francis A. Born in Ireland. Daughter of the preceding ; born in England. A Summer Song 147 The Flower of the Flock 62 Forgive and Forget 2gg The Ould Plaid Shawl 527 Spoken in Anger 571 Falconer, Edmund. Born in Ireland ; dramatist. Fraser, John De Jean. Born in Ireland, 1809 ; died, 1849. Killarney 187 My Connor no Farrell, Joseph (Rev.). Born in Ireland, 1841; died, 1885. Clondallagh 188 The Poet to his Son 270 Judith 242 Our Course 415 What the Sea Said 263 Furlong, Thomas. Faussett, Alessie Bond. Born in County Tyrone. Ireland. Born in Ireland, 1794 ; died, 1827. Mary Maguire 61 The Death of St. Columba 64g The Spirit of Irish Song 326 Ferguson, Samuel (Sir). Born in Ireland, 1810; died, 1S86. Oh, Ireland, my Country 3gg Blest be that Strain 6gg My Owen Bawn Con 64 The Little Maiden 134 Gallagher, James T. Born in Ireland ;— New York.

The Liffey 175 Three Thoughts 208 Self-Reliance 406 The Fairy Well of Lagnanay 348 The Exile to his Son 410 The Naming of Cuchullin 475 The Gascon O'Driscoll 4S3 Gallagher, William Davis. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. The Forging of the Anchor 512 Thomas Davis, His Life, etc 626 Song of the Pioneers 123 The Burial of King Cormac 650 The Cardinal Bird 151 The Morning's Hinges 663 Green Hills of Adair 185 The Better Day 510 Fleming, Martin J. Born near Rochester, N. Y. Forevermore 567 Song of the Seraphim 672 Mortality 277 Fletcher, Henry M. Born in Ireland. Geary, Eugene. Born in Ireland, 1862 ;— New York. By a Daisy-browed Strame 56 Father Dan 126 Harry's Away 71 Maloga's Holy Well PAGE PAGE Geoghegan, Arthur Gerald. Boru in Ireland. O, Sweet Adair 1S5 Life's Young Day 28g The Monks of Kilcrea 344 The Merriest Bird 330 After Aughrim 420 Tyrell's Pass 463 The Isle of the Blest 337 The Bridal of Malahide 57S The Sister of Charity 703 Geoghegan, Mary.

Daughter of the preceding. Guiney, Louise Imogen. Born in Boston, Mass., 1861. An April Day 145 A November Day 160 Adventurers 130 Gloucester Harbor 132 Geoghegan, William. Orient Born 1 36 Born in Ireland, 1844 ; — New York. The Rival Singers 254 The Inney's Side I7g Brother Bartholomew 271 A Morning Dream 2g3 Charandos 4Sg After the Storm 585 Gilmore, Minnie. Born in Boston, Mass. Halpine, Charles Graham. Born in Ireland, 1829 ; died, 1868. At the Tryst 70 A Harvest Idyl 74 Thine Eyes of Blue 49 The House of the Children 129 My Southward Winging Oriole 74 Missing 316 Janette's Hair 106 A Song of Contrast 567 The Tropic Bird 150 A Last Lullaby 56g The Ruby Ring 28g Goldsmith, Oliver. The Nymph of Lurlieberg 315 Stamping Out 444 Born in Ireland, 1728 ; died, 1774. Truth in Parenthesis 532 The Hermit 92 Widowology Philosophized 532 The Deserted Village 277 The Traveller 281 In Buckinham Palice 541 On Burke 286 Only Some Relics 575 On Garrick 286 An Exile's Grave 609 The Logician Refuted 547 On liaising a Monument to the Irish I .egion 637 Elegy on a Mad Dog 551 Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize 552 A Vesper Hymn 663 Hamilton.