Book of Irish Poetry, part I
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163 chapters · 6 h 4 min · English
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Edited and largely translated into English by Alfred Perceval Graves, this book contains a remarkably large collection of Irish poetry. This is first part of the book. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn
Chapters
1 Dedication 1 min 2 Introduction 30 min 3 Ode by Andrew O'Shaughnessy 1 min 4 The Scribe 1 min 5 The Song of Amorgen by Amorgen, a pre-historic Bard 3 min 6 First Winter-Song 1 min 7 King and Hermit translated by Professor Kuno Meyer 5 min 8 St. Columba in Iona 2 min 9 The Irish Wolf-Hound by Denis Florence McCarthy 1 min 10 The Rock of Cashel by Sir Aubrey De Vere 1 min 11 Glengarriff by Sir Aubrey De Vere 2 min 12 Sibera by James Clarence Mangan 2 min 13 A Sigh for Knockmany by William Carleton 2 min 14 Sonnet by Edward Dowden 1 min 15 Four Ducks on a Pound by William Allingham 1 min 16 Foam Flakes by Standish O'Grady 2 min 17 From Shannon to Sea by E. G. A. Holmes 1 min 18 Eternal Vigil by E. G. A. Holmes 1 min 19 Birds by Moira O'Neill 2 min 20 Sheeps and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson 1 min 21 April in Ireland by Nora Hopper 2 min 22 Glorny's Weir by Winifred M. Letts 1 min 23 The Nine Green Glens by John Stevenson 2 min 24 Lough Bray, I by Rose Kavanagh 2 min 25 Lough Bray, II Standish O'Grady 1 min 26 An Awakening by Alice Furlong 1 min 27 The Little Waves of Breffny by Eva Gore-Booth 1 min 28 On Great Sugarloaf by George A. Greene 1 min 29 A June Day by John Todhunter 1 min 30 The Swimmer by Roden Noel 2 min 31 Spring, the Travelling Man by Winifred M. Letts 2 min 32 A Fine Day on Lough Swilly by William Alexander 3 min 33 Frost-morning by William Alexander 1 min 34 The Wind from the West by Ella Young 1 min 35 To the Mountain Ben Bulben by Moireen Fox 1 min 36 Anach by Darrell Figgis 1 min 37 The Fairies' Lullaby by Eleanor Hull 1 min 38 The Fairy Host 2 min 39 The Song of the Fairies by A. H. Leary 1 min 40 Sea-Maiden's Vengeance by George Sigerson 4 min 41 Song of Maelduin by Thomas William Rolleston 2 min 42 The Island of Sleep by William Butler Yeats 9 min 43 On the Waters of Moyle by George Sigerson 2 min 44 The Return of the Children of Lir by George Sigerson 3 min 45 The Sea God's Address to Bran 4 min 46 The Spear of Keltar by W. M. Hennessy 3 min 47 The Legend of Fergus Leideson by Sir Samuel Ferguson 6 min 48 Deirdre Dancing by Herbert Trench 3 min 49 The Noble Lay of Aillinn by Stopford A. Brooke 4 min 50 The Love-Talker by Ethna Carbery 2 min 51 To the Leanan Sidhe by Thomas Boyd 3 min 52 The King's Son by Thomas Boyd 1 min 53 Little Sister 1 min 54 The Fairy Thorn by Sir Samuel Ferguson 4 min 55 On All Souls' Night by Dora Sigerson 2 min 56 The Ship from Tirnanoge by Emily Hickey 3 min 57 The Fairies' Passage by James Clarence Mangan 5 min 58 The Fairy Fiddler by Nora Hopper 1 min 59 The Fairies by William Allingham 2 min 60 Hy-Brasail by Gerald Griffin 2 min 61 The Heather Glen by George by Sigerson 3 min 62 The Wind Among the Reeds by Nora Hopper 1 min 63 The Changeling by Ruth Duffin 2 min 64 The Faery Lover by Moireen Fox 1 min 65 The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker by William Allingham 3 min 66 Fairy Song by Elinor Sweetman 1 min 67 The Others by Seumas O'Sullivan 2 min 68 What is Love? 2 min 69 The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare 2 min 70 She by Eleanor Hull 1 min 71 Credhe's Lament for Cail 2 min 72 Lament of Fand at Parting from Cuchulain 2 min 73 Were You on the Mountain? by Douglas Hyde 1 min 74 Pulse of My Heart by Charlotte Brooke 1 min 75 Two Songs from the Irish, I by Thomas MacDonagh 1 min 76 Two Songs from the Irish, II by Thomas MacDonagh 1 min 77 Pearl of the White Breast by George Petrie 2 min 78 The Outlaw of Loch Lene by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan 2 min 79 Cean Dubh Deelish by Sir Samuel Ferguson 1 min 80 The Flower of Nut-brown Maids by Eleanor Hull 3 min 81 Pastheen Finn by Sir Samuel Ferguson 2 min 82 She Is My Love 1 min 83 Happy 'tis Thou Blind, for Thee by Douglas Hyde 1 min 84 The Coolun by Sir Samuel Ferguson 2 min 85 Irish Love-Song by Katharine Tynan Hinkson 1 min 86 Cashel of Munster by Edward Walsh 2 min 87 Molly Asthore by George Ogle 3 min 88 Remembrance by Emily Brontë 3 min 89 Lament of the Irish Maiden by Denny Lane 2 min 90 The Desmond by Thomas Moore 1 min 91 Love Song by George Darley 1 min 92 If I had thought thou couldst have died by Charles Wolfe 2 min 93 A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 1 min 94 Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller 2 min 95 Kathleen O'More by George Nugent Reynolds 1 min 96 The Boatman of Kinsale by Thomas Davis 1 min 97 Minnie by Thomas Caulfield 1 min 98 Song I by Aubrey De Vere 1 min 99 Song II by Aubrey De Vere 1 min 100 An Ancient Tale by John O'Hagan 3 min 101 Donal Kenny by John Keegan Casey 2 min 102 The Drynan Dhun by Robert Dwyer Joyce 2 min 103 The Wild Geese by Rosa Mulholland 3 min 104 Outside by Frances Wynne 1 min 105 To an Isle in the Water by William Butler Yeats 1 min 106 An Old Song Resung by William Butler Yeats 1 min 107 Killary by Herbert Trench 2 min 108 The Wood Pigeon by Katharine Tynan 1 min 109 Forgiveness by A.E 1 min 110 Song by Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1 min 111 Nature and Love by Stopford A. Brooke 2 min 112 The Little Flutes by Mrs. Denis O'Sullivan 2 min 113 The Penalty of Love by Sidney Royse Lysaght 1 min 114 To Morfydd by Lionel Johnson 1 min 115 The Sedges by Seumas O'Sullivan 1 min 116 Can Doov Deelish by Dora Sigerson 1 min 117 The Betrayal by Alice Furlong 1 min 118 Song by Eleanor Alexander 1 min 119 A Silent Mouth by Cathal O'Bryne 2 min 120 His Home and His Own Country by Emily Hickey 1 min 121 Bitter Serenade by Herbert Trench 3 min 122 The Wings of Love by James H. Cousins 3 min 123 Little Mary Cassidy by Francis A. Fahy 2 min 124 Molleen Oge 2 min 125 The Yin Wee Luik by G. F. Savage-Armstrong 1 min 126 The Shawlie by G. F. Savage-Armstrong 2 min 127 The Wee Lassie's First Luve by G. F. Savage-Armstrong 2 min 128 Cuttin' Rushes by Moira O'Neill 2 min 129 Little Child, I Call Thee by Douglas Hyde 1 min 130 Eileen Aroon by Gerald Griffin 2 min 131 Song by Thomas MacDonagh 1 min 132 Now by Eleanor Alexander 1 min 133 Amor Fons Amoris by Edmond G. A. Holmes 2 min 134 Ancient Irish Rann 1 min 135 Cuchulain's Wooing by Eleanor R. Cox 1 min 136 Leagh's Summons to Chchulain 2 min 137 Where is the Sweetest Music? by George Sigerson 2 min 138 The Giant Walker by Sir Samuel Ferguson 5 min 139 The Washer of the Ford by Sir Samuel Ferguson 3 min 140 A Dirge for King Niall of the Nine Hostages 3 min 141 The Song of the Sword of Carroll 5 min 142 King Ailill's Death by Whitley Stokes 2 min 143 Rebel Mother's Lullaby by Shane Leslie 1 min 144 O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire by James Clarence Mangan 5 min 145 A Lament for the Red Earl by Richard Mahony 2 min 146 Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill by Thomas Davis 3 min 147 The Maiden City by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 4 min 148 The Battle of the Boyne 2 min 149 A Ballad of Sarsfield by Aubrey De Vere 2 min 150 A Ballad of Athlone (2nd Siege) by Aubrey De Vere 2 min 151 After the Battle (of Aughrim) by Aubrey De Vere 1 min 152 A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield by James Clarence Mangan 3 min 153 Fontenoy, 1745, I by Emily Lawless 2 min 154 Fontenoy, 1745, II by Emily Lawless 1 min 155 Clare's Dragoons by Thomas Davis 3 min 156 Cremona by Sir A. Conan Doyle 7 min 157 The Irish Colonel by Sir A. Conan Doyle 1 min 158 Oh! The Sight Entrancing by Thomas Moore 2 min 159 The Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe 2 min 160 Ways of War by Lionel Johnson 2 min 161 The Sword by Michael Joseph Barry 2 min 162 A Soldier's Wake by Timothy Daniel Sullivan 2 min 163 A Song of Defeat by Stephen Gwynn 6 min
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