Padraic Colum, ed., Anthology of Irish Verse (1922)

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Contents
Part One: The House, the Road, the Field, the Fair and the Fireside
  1. A Poem To Be Said on Hearing the Birds Sing.
  2. The Song of the Old Mother.
  3. On Waking.
  4. A Day in Ireland.
  5. A Drover.
  6. The Blind Man at the Fair.
  7. Market Women’s Cries.
  8. John-John.
  9. No Miracle.
  10. Let Us Be Merry Before We Go.
  11. Had I a Golden Pound.
  12. The Coolun.
  13. Have You Been at Carrick?
  14. The Stars Stand Up in the Air.
  15. Dear Dark Head.
  16. Pearl of the White Breast.
  17. Country Sayings.
  18. Cois na Teineadh.
  19. The Ballad of Father Gilligan.
  20. Ballad of Douglas Bridge.
  21. The White Witch.
  22. The Spinning Wheel.
  23. Ringleted Youth of My Love.
  24. Do You Remember That Night?
  25. The Song of the Ghost.
  26. Lullaby.
  27. I Lie Down With God.
Part Two: Street Songs and Countryside Songs, Mainly Anonymous
  1. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye.
  2. Nell Flaherty’s Drake.
  3. Allalu Mo Wauleen.
  4. The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.
  5. I Know My Love.
  6. The Lambs on the Green Hills Stood Gazing on Me.
  7. My Love Is Like the Sun.
  8. The Nobleman’s Wedding.
  9. Johnny’s the Lad I Love.
  10. I Know Where I’m Going.
  11. The Streams of Bunclody.
  12. Lovely Mary Donnelly.
  13. Draherin O Machree.
  14. A Complete Account of the Various Colonizations.
  15. The Boyne Water.
  16. The Shan Van Vocht.
  17. The Wearin’ o’ the Green.
  18. The Rising of the Moon.
  19. The Croppy Boy.
  20. By Memory Inspired.
Part Three: The Celtic World and the Realm of Faery
  1. Aimirgin’s Invocation.
  2. St. Patrick’s Breastplate.
  3. In Praise of May.
  4. The Sleep-Song of Grainne Over Dermuid.
  5. The Awakening of Dermuid.
  6. The Lay of Prince Marvan.
  7. The Counsels of O’Riordan, the Rann Maker.
  8. My Love, Oh, She Is My Love.
  9. At the Yellow Bohereen.
  10. The Woman of Beare.
  11. Cuchullain’s Lament Over Fardiad.
  12. King Cahal Mór of the Wine-Red Hand.
  13. Kincora.
  14. The Grave of Rury.
  15. The Shadow House of Lugh.
  16. The King’s Son.
  17. The Fairy Host.
  18. The Fairy Thorn.
  19. The Fairy Lover.
  20. The Warnings.
  21. The Love-Talker.
  22. The Green Hunters.
  23. The Others.
  24. The Shadow People.
  25. The Fairies.
Part Four: Poems of Place and Poems of Exile
  1. The Triad of Things Not Decreed.
  2. The Starling Lake.
  3. Bogac Bán.
  4. Killarney.
  5. The Hills of Cualann.
  6. Ardan Mór.
  7. Clonmacnoise.
  8. The Little Waves of Breffny.
  9. Muckish Mountain (The Pig’s Back).
  10. The Bog Lands.
  11. The Bells of Shandon.
  12. Colum-Cille’s Farewell to Ireland.
  13. John O’Dwyer of the Glen.
  14. A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan.
  15. Fontenoy. 1745.
  16. In Spain.
  17. In Spain: Drinking Song.
  18. The Battle Eve of the Irish Brigade.
  19. The Fair Hills of Ireland.
  20. The Winding Banks of Erne.
  21. Corrymeela.
  22. The Irish Peasant Girl.
  23. The County of Mayo.
Part Five: Satires and Laments
  1. On Himself.
  2. On An Ill-Managed House.
  3. On the World.
  4. Righteous Anger.
  5. The Petition of Tom Dermody to the Three Fates in Council Sitting.
  6. The Peeler and the Goat.
  7. The Night Before Larry Was Stretched.
  8. Bruadar and Smith and Glinn.
  9. The Bard on the Bodach.
  10. A Curse on a Closed Gate.
  11. O’Hussey’s Ode to the Maguire.
  12. A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel.
  13. Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O’Neill.
  14. Dirge on the Death of Art O’Leary.
  15. The Lament for O’Sullivan Beare.
  16. A Connacht Caoine.
  17. The Convict of Clonmala.
  18. A Woman of the Mountain Keens Her Son.
  19. Aghadoe.
  20. The Burial of sit John Moore.
  21. Lament for Thomas Davis.
  22. Parnell.
  23. Synge’s Grave.
  24. To a Dead Poet.
  25. The Dead Aviator.
  26. Lament for Sean MacDermott.
  27. Lament for Thomas MacDonagh.
  28. Lament for the Poets: 1916.
  29. How Oft Has the Banshee Cried.
Part Six: Our Heritage
  1. The Downfall of the Gael.
  2. Lament for Banba.
  3. Tara Is Grass.
  4. Kathleen-Ni-Houlahan.
  5. Dark Rosaleen.
  6. Roisin Dubh.
  7. The Dark Palace.
  8. After Death.
  9. Ways of War.
  10. This Heritage to the Race of Kings.
  11. The Irish Rapparees.
  12. The Memory of the Dead.
  13. Thro’ Grief and Thro’ Danger.
  14. The Irish Mother in the Penal Days.
  15. A Song of Freedom.
  16. Terence MacSwiney.
  17. The Three Woes.
Part Seven: Personal Poems
  1. I Am Raferty.
  2. At the Mid Hour of Night.
  3. Night.
  4. Nepenthe.
  5. Eileen Aroon.
  6. And Then No More.
  7. Maire My Girl.
  8. Helas!.
  9. In the Streets of Catania.
  10. The Doves.
  11. Sheep and Lambs.
  12. The Pity of Love.
  13. The Folly of Being Comforted.
  14. Think.
  15. Immortality.
  16. A Farewell.
  17. To Morfydd.
  18. Love on the Mountain.
  19. Acceptation.
  20. Mad Song.
  21. The Wings of Love.
  22. On a Poet Patriot.
  23. Wishes for My Son.
  24. Greeting.
  25. The Sedges.
  26. The Half Door.
  27. This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart.
  28. I Hear an Army.
  29. To Death.
  30. Ideal.
  31. River-Mates.
  32. The Betrayal.
  33. The Daisies.
  34. The Goat Paths.
  35. The Spark.
  36. A Silent Mouth.
  37. He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed.
  38. The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth.
  39. The Apple-Tree.
Slainthe!
  1. Slainthe!

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