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The Book of Irish Poetry, part I

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

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Dedication (Ellies)
Introduction (Ellies)
Ode by Andrew O'Shaughnessy (elizabethcanright)
The Scribe (ChadH94)
The Song of Amorgen by Amorgen, a pre-historic Bard (Sonia)
First Winter-Song (Stefan Von Blon)
King and Hermit translated by Professor Kuno Meyer (Colleen McMahon)
St. Columba in Iona (Colleen McMahon)
The Irish Wolf-Hound by Denis Florence McCarthy (Ellies)
The Rock of Cashel by Sir Aubrey De Vere (Ellies)
Glengarriff by Sir Aubrey De Vere (Ellies)
Sibera by James Clarence Mangan (Ellies)
A Sigh for Knockmany by William Carleton (Ellies)
Sonnet by Edward Dowden (Ellies)
Four Ducks on a Pound by William Allingham (Stefan Von Blon)
Foam Flakes by Standish O'Grady (Ellies)
From Shannon to Sea by E. G. A. Holmes (Ellies)
Eternal Vigil by E. G. A. Holmes (Ellies)
Birds by Moira O'Neill (Ellies)
Sheeps and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson (Ellies)
April in Ireland by Nora Hopper (Ellies)
Glorny's Weir by Winifred M. Letts (Ellies)
The Nine Green Glens by John Stevenson (Ellies)
Lough Bray, I by Rose Kavanagh (Ellies)
Lough Bray, II Standish O'Grady (Ellies)
An Awakening by Alice Furlong (Sonia)
The Little Waves of Breffny by Eva Gore-Booth (Sonia)
On Great Sugarloaf by George A. Greene (Sonia)
A June Day by John Todhunter (Sonia)
The Swimmer by Roden Noel (Ellies)
Spring, the Travelling Man by Winifred M. Letts (Ellies)
A Fine Day on Lough Swilly by William Alexander (Ellies)
Frost-morning by William Alexander (Ellies)
The Wind from the West by Ella Young (Ellies)
To the Mountain Ben Bulben by Moireen Fox (Sonia)
Anach by Darrell Figgis (Sonia)
The Fairies' Lullaby by Eleanor Hull (Sonia)
The Fairy Host (Sonia)
The Song of the Fairies by A. H. Leary (Sonia)
Sea-Maiden's Vengeance by George Sigerson (Ellies)
Song of Maelduin by Thomas William Rolleston (Ellies)
The Island of Sleep by William Butler Yeats (Ellies)
On the Waters of Moyle by George Sigerson (Ellies)
The Return of the Children of Lir by George Sigerson (Ellies)
The Sea God's Address to Bran (Ellies)
The Spear of Keltar by W. M. Hennessy (Ellies)
The Legend of Fergus Leideson by Sir Samuel Ferguson (Ellies)
Deirdre Dancing by Herbert Trench (Ellies)
The Noble Lay of Aillinn by Stopford A. Brooke (Ellies)
The Love-Talker by Ethna Carbery (Ellies)
To the Leanan Sidhe by Thomas Boyd (Ellies)
The King's Son by Thomas Boyd (Ellies)
Little Sister (Ellies)
The Fairy Thorn by Sir Samuel Ferguson (rumpledpoetry)
On All Souls' Night by Dora Sigerson (Sonia)
The Ship from Tirnanoge by Emily Hickey (Anita Sloma-Martinez)
The Fairies' Passage by James Clarence Mangan (Sonia)
The Fairy Fiddler by Nora Hopper (Sonia)
The Fairies by William Allingham (Sonia)
Hy-Brasail by Gerald Griffin (Sonia)
The Heather Glen by George by Sigerson (Sonia)
The Wind Among the Reeds by Nora Hopper (Sonia)
The Changeling by Ruth Duffin (rumpledpoetry)
The Faery Lover by Moireen Fox (rumpledpoetry)
The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker by William Allingham (Anita Sloma-Martinez)
Fairy Song by Elinor Sweetman (Sonia)
The Others by Seumas O'Sullivan (Sonia)
What is Love? (ChadH94)
The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare (Sonia)
She by Eleanor Hull (Stefan Von Blon)
Credhe's Lament for Cail (Sonia)
Lament of Fand at Parting from Cuchulain (Sonia)
Were You on the Mountain? by Douglas Hyde (Stefan D'Souza)
Pulse of My Heart by Charlotte Brooke (Blake Johnson)
Two Songs from the Irish, I by Thomas MacDonagh (locturne)
Two Songs from the Irish, II by Thomas MacDonagh (locturne)
Pearl of the White Breast by George Petrie (Sonia)
The Outlaw of Loch Lene by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (Sonia)
Cean Dubh Deelish by Sir Samuel Ferguson (Sonia)
The Flower of Nut-brown Maids by Eleanor Hull (Ellies)
Pastheen Finn by Sir Samuel Ferguson (Ellies)
She Is My Love (Ellies)
Happy 'tis Thou Blind, for Thee by Douglas Hyde (Ellies)
The Coolun by Sir Samuel Ferguson (Ellies)
Irish Love-Song by Katharine Tynan Hinkson (Ellies)
Cashel of Munster by Edward Walsh (Ellies)
Molly Asthore by George Ogle (Ellies)
Remembrance by Emily Brontë (Nemo)
Lament of the Irish Maiden by Denny Lane (Sonia)
The Desmond by Thomas Moore (Kudrna)
Love Song by George Darley (ChadH94)
If I had thought thou couldst have died by Charles Wolfe (Kristine Bekere)
A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly (rumpledpoetry)
Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller (elizabethcanright)
Kathleen O'More by George Nugent Reynolds (elizabethcanright)
The Boatman of Kinsale by Thomas Davis (elizabethcanright)
Minnie by Thomas Caulfield (Kudrna)
Song I by Aubrey De Vere (Stefan D'Souza)
Song II by Aubrey De Vere (Stefan D'Souza)
An Ancient Tale by John O'Hagan (Stefan D'Souza)
Donal Kenny by John Keegan Casey (Ellies)
The Drynan Dhun by Robert Dwyer Joyce (Ellies)
The Wild Geese by Rosa Mulholland (Ellies)
Outside by Frances Wynne (ChadH94)
To an Isle in the Water by William Butler Yeats (Stefan Von Blon)
An Old Song Resung by William Butler Yeats (Larry Wilson)
Killary by Herbert Trench (Ellies)
The Wood Pigeon by Katharine Tynan (Larry Wilson)
Forgiveness by A.E. (Larry Wilson)
Song by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Larry Wilson)
Nature and Love by Stopford A. Brooke (Larry Wilson)
The Little Flutes by Mrs. Denis O'Sullivan (Ellies)
The Penalty of Love by Sidney Royse Lysaght (pattymarie)
To Morfydd by Lionel Johnson (Ellies)
The Sedges by Seumas O'Sullivan (Larry Wilson)
Can Doov Deelish by Dora Sigerson (Sonia)
The Betrayal by Alice Furlong (Anita Sloma-Martinez)
Song by Eleanor Alexander (Stefan Von Blon)
A Silent Mouth by Cathal O'Bryne (Sonia)
His Home and His Own Country by Emily Hickey (ChadH94)
Bitter Serenade by Herbert Trench (Larry Wilson)
The Wings of Love by James H. Cousins (Ellies)
Little Mary Cassidy by Francis A. Fahy (ChadH94)
Molleen Oge (Ellies)
The Yin Wee Luik by G. F. Savage-Armstrong (Ellies)
The Shawlie by G. F. Savage-Armstrong (Ellies)
The Wee Lassie's First Luve by G. F. Savage-Armstrong (Ellies)
Cuttin' Rushes by Moira O'Neill (ChadH94)
Little Child, I Call Thee by Douglas Hyde (Larry Wilson)
Eileen Aroon by Gerald Griffin (ChadH94)
Song by Thomas MacDonagh (Ellies)
Now by Eleanor Alexander (pattymarie)
Amor Fons Amoris by Edmond G. A. Holmes (Ellies)
Ancient Irish Rann (James White)
Cuchulain's Wooing by Eleanor R. Cox (James White)
Leagh's Summons to Chchulain (James White)
Where is the Sweetest Music? by George Sigerson (Ellies)
The Giant Walker by Sir Samuel Ferguson (ChadH94)
The Washer of the Ford by Sir Samuel Ferguson (ChadH94)
A Dirge for King Niall of the Nine Hostages (Haridev Dadhich)
The Song of the Sword of Carroll (Ellies)
King Ailill's Death by Whitley Stokes (Ellies)
Rebel Mother's Lullaby by Shane Leslie (Larry Wilson)
O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire by James Clarence Mangan (Ellies)
A Lament for the Red Earl by Richard Mahony (Larry Wilson)
Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill by Thomas Davis (Ellies)
The Maiden City by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (Ellies)
The Battle of the Boyne (Ed)
A Ballad of Sarsfield by Aubrey De Vere (locturne)
A Ballad of Athlone (2nd Siege) by Aubrey De Vere (locturne)
After the Battle (of Aughrim) by Aubrey De Vere (locturne)
A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield by James Clarence Mangan (ChadH94)
Fontenoy, 1745, I by Emily Lawless (rumpledpoetry)
Fontenoy, 1745, II by Emily Lawless (rumpledpoetry)
Clare's Dragoons by Thomas Davis (Foon)
Cremona by Sir A. Conan Doyle (Foon)
The Irish Colonel by Sir A. Conan Doyle (Foon)
Oh! The Sight Entrancing by Thomas Moore (Foon)
The Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe (Foon)
Ways of War by Lionel Johnson (Foon)
The Sword by Michael Joseph Barry (Foon)
A Soldier's Wake by Timothy Daniel Sullivan (Foon)
A Song of Defeat by Stephen Gwynn (Foon)
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