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Book of Irish Poetry, part II

A collection of Irish poetry, edited and largely translated by Alfred Perceval Graves. This is the second and final part of the book. - Summary by Kikisaulite Proof-listening by Linette Geisel & Kristine Bekere (5 hr 7 min)

Chapters

There is a Grey Eye by St. Cohimkille

Geoffrey Keating to his Letter by Geoffrey Keating

Dark Rosaleen by James Clarence Mangan

Dirge of Rory O'More by Aubrey De Vere

After Aughrim by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan

A Bard's Lament over his Children by Padric Gregory

The Little Black Rose by Aubrey De Vere

The Wind that Shakes the Barley by Robert Dwyer Joyce

The Irishman by James Orr

A Spinning Song by John Francis O'Donnell

The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Fr. Prout)

The Memory of the Dead by John Kells Ingram

Song for July 12th, 1843 by John de Jean Frazer

Memories by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

To God and Ireland True by Ellen O'Leary

I give my Heart to Thee by Standish O' Grady

Song from the Backwoods by T. D. Sullivan

After Death by Fanny Parnell

An Irish Face by A. E.

The Dark Man by Nora Hopper

Irish Memories by George A. Greene

Celtic Speech by Lionel Johnson

A Song of Freedom by Alice Milligan

Ireland by Stephen Liicius Gwynn

An Appeal by Emily Lawless

Irish Melodies by John Todhunter

Lament for Thomas Davis by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Blessings by Winifred M . Letts

The Slaying of Conbeg

The Wedding of the Clans by Aubrey DeVere

Eamonn an Chnuic

The Blind Poet by Anthony Raftery

My Ulick by Francis Davis

Draherin O Machree by Michael Hogan

Dublin Bay by Lady Dufferin

The Kilruddery Hunt by Thomas Mozeen

A Dream by William Allingham

A Peasant Woman's Song by Dion Bottcicault

Kitty of Coleraine by Anonymous

The Low-backed Car by Samuel Lover

The "Dark Girl" by the "Holy Well" by John Keegan

The Potato Digger's Song by Thomas Caulfield Irwin

A Drunkard's Address to a Bottle of Whiskey by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu

Soggarth Aroon by John Banim

Father O'Flynn

The River by Charlotte Grace O'Brien

Tom Moody by Andrew Cherry

Herring is King

Irish Widow's Message to her Son in America by Ellen Forrester

Herself and Myself by Patrick J . McCall

Song of an Island Fisherman by Katharine Tynan Hinkson

O Drimin Dhu Deelish

Preparations for Winter by Patrick J. McCall

My Blessing be on Waterford by Winifred M. Letts

If all the young Maidens by Patrick J. McCall

The Six Road Ends by Will Carew

God's Fool by Celia Duffin

Bonnie Twinkling Stamies by James McKowen

They're only Weans by Padric Gregory

The Hill o' Dreams by Helen Lanyon

The Blue, Blue Smoke

Out of Hearing by Jane Barlow

Like one I know by Nancy Campbell

Irish Lullaby

Dreams by Winifred M. Leits

In Ballyshannon by Robert J. Kerr

Padric the Fidiler by Padric Gregory

The Starling Lake by Seumas O' Sullivan

The Grand Match by Moira O'Neill

Corrymela by Moira O'Neill

An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum

Strings in the Earth and Air by James Joyce

The Tryst after Death

Alexander the Great

Early Irish Triads

Thro' Grief and thro' Danger by Thomas Moore

To Time by The Hon.Mrs.Tighe

Last Lines by Emily Bronte

Moonlight by J.J.Callanan

Lines on the Death of Sheridan by Thomas Moore

The Sun God by Aubrey De Vere

Sorrow by Aubrey De Vere

The Fallen Star by George Darley

The Sea Ritual by George Darley

A Waking Dream by John Francis Waller

A Lament by Denis Florence McCarthy

Aeolian Harp by William Allingham

O! Wondrous Death by Archbishop Trench

Lady Margaret's Song by Edward Dowden

Epitaph by Aubrey DeVere

An Errand by Jane Barlow

The Earth and Man by Stopford A. Brooke

Song by John Todhunter

The Ballad of Father Gilligan by William Butler Yeats

The Irish Mother's Lament by Cecil Frances Alexander

Sacrifice by A.E.

St. Michan's Churchyard by Rose Kavanagh

Life by Elizabeth Mary Little

A Benediction by Alice Milligan

Too Deep for Tears by Edmund G. A. Holmes

Carrick by Susan Mitchell

A Retort by Emily Lawless

Connla's Well by A.E

Dreams by Cecil Frances Alexander

The Soul-Bell by Patrick A. Sheehan

Titan by Charles Weekes

A Moment's Insight by Eva Gore-Booth

There shall be no more Sea by Mrs. Edward Dowden

Adrift by Mrs. Edward Dowden

A Song of Sun Setting by Jane Barlow

To a Nightingale by Elinor Swedman

The Shell by James Stephens

The Rose of Silence by Ella Young

The Bough of Time by Ella Young

A Dream Garden by Ella Young

The Unexplored by Sidney Royse Lysaght

Youth and Age by Eleanor Hull

Growing Old by Francis E. Ledwidge

I will Forget by Alice Furlong

From the Burren by Emily Lawless

The Weaver by Eva Gore-Booth

Coire Dubh Linn by Darrell Figgis

Ghosts by Joseph Campbell

The Omen by "John Eglinton"

Diminutivus Ululans by Francis Macnamara

The Marseillaise by John Todhunter

The Stars Sang in God's Garden, I. & II by Joseph Plunkett

What is White ? by Thomas MacDonagh

Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose by Edward Fitzgerald

The End of Ail by Edward Fitzgerald

The Touchstone by William Allingham

Man Octipartite by Whitley Stokes

Patrick's Blessing on Munster

The Breastplate of St. Patrick

A Prayer to the Virgin

Columbkille's Farewell by Douglas Hyde

On the Flightiness of Thought

The Monk and his White Cat

The Scribe

Quatrains from the Early Irish

The Sea-going Bark

The Shaving of Murdoch

Consecration by Eleanor Hull

Hymn to the Holy Spirit

Maelisu's Hymn to the Archangel Michael

The Soul's Desire by Eleanor Hull

The Feilire of Adamnan by Patrick J. McCall

Christmas Hymn by Douglas Hyde

A Confession for Forgiveness

The Convent Bell by George Roberts