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A TREASURY OF IRISH POETRY
Book I I
The Wearin' o' the Green .
The Sorrowful Lamentation of Callaghan, Greally and
Mullen ....
Hugh Reynolds .
Willie Reilly
The Night before Larry was
Stretched
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
ID
The Cruiskeen Lawn .
Shule Aroon
Irish Molly . . .
The Maid of Cloghroe
Jenny from Ballinasloe
The Boyne Water
By Memory Inspired .
The Shan Van Vocht
William Drennan :
Introductory Notice by D. J.
O'Donoghue ... 25
Erin 25
The Wake of William Orr . 27
My Father ... 28
John Philpot Curran :
The Deserter's Meditation . 29
R. B. Sheridan :
Introductory Notice .
Dry be that Tear
Song
G. N. Reynolds :
Introductory Notice .
Kathleen O'More Anonymous .
Kitty of Coleraine Thomas Moore:
Introductory Notice by the Rev. S. A. Brooke .
The Song of Fionnuala
The Irish Peasant to his Mistress . . . .
At the Mid Hour of Night
When he who Adores Thee
After the Battle .
The Light of other Days
On Music .
Echo ....
As Slow our Ship
No, not more Welcome
My Birthday Charles Wolfe :
Introductory Notice by T W. Rolleston .
The Burial of Sir John Moore .
Sonnet
Lines written to Music Luke Aylmer Conolly:
Introductory Notice .
The Enchanted Island Marguerite A. Power:
Introductory Notice .
A Midden Rose Tree
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George Darley:
Introductory Notice by T, W. Rolleston .
From Nepenthe .
Hymn to the Sun
True Loveliness .
The Fallen Star .
From The Fight of the Forlorn ...
Samuel Lover :
Introductory Notice by D J. O'Donoghue
Widow Machree
Barney O'Hea .
Rory O'More .
Charles James Lever:
Introductory Notice .
Larry McHale .
The Widow Malone .
Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) :
Introductory Notice .
The Bells of Shandon John P'uancis Waller:
Introductory Notice .
The Spinning Wheel .
Kitty Neil .
William Carleton :
Introductory Notice .
Sir Turlough
A Sigh for Knockmany Gerald Griffin :
Introductory Notice by Geo. Sigerson, M.D.
Gile Machree
Cead Mile Failte, Elim !
Lines to a Seagull
The Wake of the Absent
Eileen Aroon J. J. Callanan :
Introductory Notice by Geo. Sigerson, M.U.
The Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear ....
The Convict of Clonmel
Gougaune Barra
The Outlaw of Lough Lene Edward Walsh :
Introductory Notice .
Mo Oaoibhin Cno
Have you been at Carrick?
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Edward Walsh {coni.) : page The Dawning of the Day . 102 The Lament of the Man-
gaire Sugach . . .103
George Fox :
Introductory Notice . . 104 The County of Mayo . . 105 John Banim :
Introductory Notice by D.
J. O'Donoghue . . 106 Soggarth Aroon . . 107
He Said that He was not
our Brother . . , 108
The Irish Mother . . 109
BOOK III The Poets of T/ie Natiott
Introduction by T. W.
Rolleston . . .111
Thomas Davis :
Introductory Notice . .116 Celts and Saxons . .118 Lament for the Death of
Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill . 120 The Sack of Baltimore . 121 The Girl of Dunbwy . -123
Nationality . . .124
John De Jean Eraser:
Introductory Notice . . 125 Song for July 1 2th . .126
John O'Hacjan :
Introductory Notice . .127 Ourselves Alone . .127
The Old Story . . .129 Protestant Ascendency . 131
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy : Introductory Notice . -133 The Muster of the North . 134 The Irish Rapparees . . 137
Introductory Notice . -139 The Croppy Boy . -139
The Good .Ship Casf/e Do-iVit 140
John Kells Inoram :
The Memory of the Dead . 142
Martin MacDermot :
Girl of the Red Mouth . 144
Richard Dalton Wil
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James McCarroll:
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LIAMS :
Introductory Notice .
. 180
Introductory Notice .
The Irish Wolf .
The jMunster War Song
John Sayage:
The Dying Girl .
Introductory Notice .
Ellen Mary Patrick
Shane's Head .
Downing :
John Walsh:
Introductory Notice .
Introductory Notice .
My Owen .
To my Promised Wife
The Old Church at Lismore
Drimin Donn Dills
Arthur Gerald Geoghega>
D. MacAleese:
Introductory Notice .
Introductory Notice .
After Aughrim .
A Memory
Denny Lane:
JosEi'H Sheridan Le Fanu :
Introductory Notice .
Introductory Notice .
The Lament of the Irish
Fionula
Maiden .
Abhrain an Bhuideil .
Mary Kelly:
Shemus O'Brien
Introductory Notice .
Tipperary .
John Keegan :
John O'Leary
Introductory Notice .
Rory of the Hill
The Irish Reaper's Harvest
Myles O'llea
Hymn
The Irish Peasant Girl
The Dark Girl .
St. John's Eve .
M. J. Barry:
ROHERT DWYER JoYCE:
Introductory Notice .
Introductory Notice .
Fineen the Rover
M. ToRjMEY:
The Blacksmith of Limerick
Introductory Notice .
John Keegan Casey:
The Ancient Race
Introductory Notice .
T. D. McGee:
The Rising of the Moon
Introductory Notice .
Maire my Girl .
The Dead Antiquary .
Ellen O'Leary:
To Duffy in Prison .
Introductory Notice .
Infelix Felix
To God and Ireland True
Salutation to the Celts
My Old Home .
D. F. McCarthy:
John Francis O'Donnell:
Introductory Notice .
Introductory Notice .
Cease to do Evil
A Spinning Song
Spring Flowers from Ire-
T. C. Irwin :
land
Introductory Notice .
Michael Doheny:
A Window Song
Introductory Notice .
A Character
Acushla Gal mo Chree
From CiKsar
Lady Wilde:
To a Skull .
Introductory Notice .
Lady Dufkerin :
The Famine Year
Introductory Notice .
(End of Poets of The iVn lio7t)
The Lament of the Irish
Emigrant
A Lay of the Famine
Terence's Farewell xl
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Music in the Street .
. 229
Dion Boucicault:
Introductory Notice .
• 232
The Exiled Mother .
. 232
T. D. Sullivan :
Introductory Notice .
• 233
Steering Home .
• 234
You and I .
• 235
Dear Old Ireland
• 236
Fanny Parnell:
Introductory Notice .
. 238
Post Mortem
. 238
BOOK IV James Clarence Mangan: Introductory Notice by
Lionel Johnson Dark Rosaleen .
A Vision of Connaught Lament for the Princes The Dawning of the Day Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan The Woman of Three Cows The Karamanian Exile The Time of the Barnie
cides Siberia O'Hussey's Ode to tht
Maguire The Nameless One Shapes and Signs Gone in the Wind Written in a Nunnery
Chapel ....
Sir Samuel Ferguson : Introductory Notice by
A. P. Graves .
Selections from ' Congal ' .
The Burial of King Cormac From Aideen's Grave The Fairy Thorn The Fair Hills of Ireland .
Lament for Thomas Davis .
Introductory Notice by Prof. W. Macneile Dixon
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Aubrey de Vere {cont.) : The Sun God /•fom the Bard Ethell The Wedding of the Clans Dirge of Rory O'More Song ....
Sorrow
The Year of Sorrow .
The Little Black Rose George Sigerson :
Douglas Hyde, LL.D.
The Lost Tribune The Calling Far Away .
The Blackbird's Song The Ruined Nest The Dirge of Cael Things Delightful Solace in Winter Lay of Norse Irish Sea
kings Love's Despair .
Whitley Stokes: Introductory Notice Lament for King Ivor King Ailill's Death Man Octipartite John Todhunter :
strong Morning in the Bay o
Naples .
The Sons of Turann .
Song ....
Beethoven . /•row The Fate of the Sons
of Usna .
P'airy Gold William Allingham:
Lionel Johnson Eolian Harp A Gravestone The Banshee The Fairies The Winding Banks
Erne Th ■ Ruined Chapel .
Thcrania .
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S. A. Brooke: pace
Introductory Notice . . vii The Noble Lay of Ailinn . 376 The Earth and Man . . 379
Alfred Perceval Graves : Introductory Notice by
G. A. Greene . . 380
From The Girl with the
Cows .... 385 The Limerick Lasses . . 389 The Irish Spinning-wheel . ^'92 Irish Lullai^y . . . 393 Father O'Flynn . . . 394 Fan Fitzgerl' . . . 395
Herring is King . . 396
Francis A. Fahy :
Introductory Notice . . 398 The Donovans . . . 398 Irish Molly O . . . 399 The Ould Plaid Shawl . 400
Malachy Ryan :
Introductory Notice . .401 Rose Adair . . .401
P. J. Coleman :
Introductory Notice . . 403 Seed-Time .... 403
P. J. McCall:
Old Pedhar Carthy . . 405
Herself and Myself . . 406
Lady Gilbert:
Saint Brigid . . . 408
Katharine Tynan Hinkson : Introductory Notice by
Daffodil . . . -414 Summer Sweet . . .415
August Weather . .415
An Island Fisherman . 416
Lux in Tenebris . .417
Winter Evening . .417
Waiting . . . . 41S
Saint Francis and the Wolf .... 422
Rose Kavanagh :
Introductory Notice . . 425 Saint Michan's Churchyard .... 426
Alice Furlong:
Introductory Notice .
The Dreamer Jane Barlow:
Introductory Notice by G. A. Greene .
Misther Denis's Return
The Flitting of the Fairies .
Dora Sigerson (Mrs.
Clement Shorter) :
Introductory Notice by Douglas Hyde, LL.D
Cean Duv Deelish
The Wind on the Hills
A Rose will Fade
The One Forgotten .
All Souls' Night
A Ballad of Marjorie .
Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Introductory Notice .
Out in the Dark
Mater Severa Frances Wynne:
Introductory Notice .
A Lesson in Geography MoiRA O'Neill:
Corrymeela
Johneen
Look in' Back Douglas Hyde:
My Love .
Ringleted Youth of my Love
My Grief on the Sea
Little Child
The Address of Death T. W. Rolleston :
Introductory Notice .
The Dead at Clonmacnois
The Lament of Maev
Song of Maelduin Thomas Boyd :
Introductory Notice .
To the Leanan Sidhe
The King's Son .
Lionel Johnson :
Introductory Notice by W B. Yeats
Ways of War
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Lionel Johnson {cant.) :
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Te Martyrum Candidatus
The Dark Angel
The Church of a Dream
The Age of a Dream .
Nora Kopper:
Introductory Notice by W.
B. Yeats .
The Fairy Fiddler
The Dark Man .
Phyllis and Damon .
Althea Gyles :
Introductory Notice by W
B. Yeats
Sympathy .
WlLLL'^iM LaRMINIE:
Speech of Emer .
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