Poetry

A Book of Irish Verse

Subtitle: Selected from modern writers, with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats

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1. IRISH VERSE 2. PREFACE 3. MODERN IRISH POETRY 4. OLD AGE 5. THE VILLAGE PREACHER 6. THE DESERTER'S MEDITATION 7. THOU CANST NOT BOAST 8. KATHLEEN O'MORE 9. THE GROVES OF BLARNEY 10. THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS 11. AT THE MID HOUR OF NIGHT 12. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE 13. THE CONVICT OF CLONMELL 14. THE OUTLAW OF LOCH LENE 15. DIRGE OF O'SULLIVAN BEAR 16. LOVE SONG 17. THE WHISTLIN' THIEF 18. SOGGARTH AROON 19. DARK ROSALEEN 20. TYRCONNELL 21. MAURICE FITZGERALD, KNIGHT OF KERRY 22. THE WOMAN OF THREE COWS 23. IRELAND 24. O'HUSSEY'S ODE TO THE MAGUIRE 25. THE NAMELESS ONE 26. SIBERIA 27. HY-BRASAIL 28. MO CRAOIBHIN CNO 29. MAIRGRÉAD NI CHEALLEADH 30. FROM THE COLD SOD THAT'S O'ER YOU 31. THE FAIRY NURSE 32. A CUISLE GEAL MO CHROIDHE 33. LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT 34. THE WELSHMEN OF TIRAWLEY 35. AIDEEN'S GRAVE 36. USNACH 37. THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND 38. OF TIMOLEAGUE 39. THE FAIRY WELL OF LAGNANAY 40. ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS DAVIS 41. THE COUNTY OF MAYO 42. THE WEDDING OF THE CLANS 43. THE LITTLE BLACK ROSE 44. SONG 45. THE BARD ETHELL 46. RUADH O'NEILL 47. MAIRE BHAN ASTÓR 48. O! THE MARRIAGE 49. A PLEA FOR LOVE 50. REMEMBRANCE 51. FRAGMENT'52. LAST LINES 53. THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD 54. EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO BALLYSHANNY 55. THE FAIRIES 56. THE ABBOT OF INISFALEN 57. TWILIGHT VOICES 58. FOUR DUCKS ON A POND 59. THE LOVER AND BIRDS 60. THE CELTS 61. SALUTATION TO THE CELTS 62. THE GOBBAN SAOR 63. PATRICK SHEEHAN 64. THE IRISH PEASANT GIRL 65. TO GOD AND IRELAND TRUE 66. THE BANSHEE 67. AGHADOE 68. A MAD SONG 69. LADY MARGARET'S SONG 70. SONG 71. FATHER O'FLYNN 72. SONG 73. REQUIESCAT 74. THE LAMENT OF QUEEN MAEV 75. THE DEAD AT CLONMACNOIS 76. THE SPELL-STRUCK 77. WERE YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN?78. MY GRIEF ON THE SEA 79. MY LOVE, O, SHE IS MY LOVE 80. I SHALL NOT DIE FOR THEE 81. RIDDLES 82. LOUGH BRAY 83. THE CHILDREN OF LIR 84. ST. FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS 85. SHEEP AND LAMBS 86. THE GARDENER SAGE 87. THE DARK MAN 88. THE FAIRY FIDDLER 89. OUR THRONES DECAY 90. IMMORTALITY 91. THE GREAT BREATH 92. SUNG ON A BY-WAY 93. DREAM LOVE 94. ILLUSION 95. JANUS 96. CONNLA'S WELL 97. NAMES 98. THAT 99. THINK 100. TE MARTYRUM CANDIDATUS 101. THE CHURCH OF A DREAM 102. WAYS OF WAR 103. THE RED WIND 104. CELTIC SPEECH 105. TO MORFYDD 106. CAN DOOV DEELISH 107. SHULE AROON 108. THE SHAN VAN VOCHT 109. THE WEARING OF THE GREEN 110. THE RAKES OF MALLOW 111. JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE 112. KITTY OF COLERAINE 113. MARY ROURKE 114. THE GERALDINE'S DAUGHTER 115. A FOLK VERSE 116. NOTES

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