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CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Padraic Colum (1881–1972).  Anthology of Irish Verse.  1922.
 
Contents
 
Dedicatory Poem: To George Sigerson, Poet and Scholar
Introduction
 
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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