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A Celtic Psaltery

A Celtic Psaltery

by Alfred Perceval Graves

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Author
Graves, Alfred Perceval, 1846-1931
Title
A Celtic Psaltery Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse from Irish & Welsh Poetry
Credits
E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Leah Moser, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PB: Language and Literatures: General works
Subject
Irish poetry -- Translations into English
Category
Text
eBook-No.
14232
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14232
Release Date
December 2, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A CELTIC PSALTERY
  2. 2.ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES — 1917 — DEDICATION
  3. 3.RIGHT HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE — PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
  4. 4.PREFACE
  5. 5.CONTENTS — I. IRISH POEMS — II. WELSH POEMS — III. OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES — IV. CHURCH FESTIVALS — V. GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS — VI. PERSONAL AND VARIOUS
  6. 6.I. Irish Poems
  7. 7.THE ISLE OF THE HAPPY
  8. 8.THE WISDOM OF KING CORMAC — THE DEPTHS OF KING CORMAC'S HEART — THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — HOW KING CORMAC ORDERED HIS YOUTH — THE WORST WAY OF PLEADING
  9. 9.IRISH TRIADS
  10. 10.Lays of the Irish Saints
  11. 11.ST. PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER
  12. 12.THE BREASTPLATE OF ST. PATRICK
  13. 13.ST. PATRICK'S EVENSONG
  14. 14.ST. COLUMBA'S GREETING TO IRELAND
  15. 15.ST. COLUMBA IN IONA
  16. 16.HAIL, BRIGIT!
  17. 17.THE DEVIL'S TRIBUTE TO MOLING
  18. 18.THE HYMN OF ST. PHILIP
  19. 19.Lays of Monk and Hermit
  20. 20.THE SCRIBE
  21. 21.THE HERMIT'S SONG
  22. 22.CRINOG
  23. 23.KING AND HERMIT
  24. 24.ON ÆNGUS THE CULDEE
  25. 25.THE SHAVING OF MURDOCH
  26. 26.ON THE FLIGHTINESS OF THOUGHT
  27. 27.THE MONK AND HIS WHITE CAT
  28. 28.Invocations and Reflections
  29. 29.A PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN
  30. 30.MAELISU'S HYMN TO THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL
  31. 31.MAELISU'S HYMN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
  32. 32.EVE'S LAMENTATION
  33. 33.ALEXANDER THE GREAT
  34. 34.THE KINGS WHO CAME TO CHRIST
  35. 35.Quatrains
  36. 36.HOSPITALITY
  37. 37.THE BLACKBIRD
  38. 38.MOLING SANG THIS
  39. 39.THE CHURCH BELL IN THE NIGHT
  40. 40.THE CRUCIFIXION
  41. 41.THE PILGRIM AT ROME
  42. 42.ON A DEAD SCHOLAR
  43. 43.Charms and Invocations
  44. 44.CHARMS AGAINST SORROW
  45. 45.ON COVERING THE FIRE FOR THE NIGHT
  46. 46.MORNING WISH
  47. 47.A CHARM AGAINST ENEMIES
  48. 48.CHARM FOR A PAIN IN THE HEART
  49. 49.THE SAFE-GUARDING OF MY SOUL
  50. 50.THE WHITE PATERNOSTER.
  51. 51.Lamentations
  52. 52.THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE
  53. 53.THE DESERTED HOME
  54. 54.THE MOTHERS' LAMENT AT THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS
  55. 55.THE KEENING OF MARY
  56. 56.CAOINE
  57. 57.Songs to Music
  58. 58.BATTLE HYMN
  59. 59.THE SONG OF THE WOODS
  60. 60.THE ENCHANTED VALLEY
  61. 61.REMEMBER THE POOR
  62. 62.II. Welsh Poems
  63. 63.THE ODES TO THE MONTHS
  64. 64.THE TERCETS
  65. 65.HAIL, GLORIOUS LORD!
  66. 66.MY BURIAL
  67. 67.THE LAST CYWYDD
  68. 68.THE LABOURER
  69. 69.THE ELEGY ON SION GLYN, A CHILD OF FIVE YEARS OF AGE
  70. 70.THE NOBLE'S GRAVE
  71. 71.THE BARD'S DEATH-BED CONFESSION
  72. 72.QUICK, DEATH!
  73. 73.COUNSEL IN VIEW OF DEATH
  74. 74.FROM "THE LAST JUDGMENT"
  75. 75.A GOOD WIFE
  76. 76."MARCHOG JESU!"
  77. 77.THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM — RACHEL MOURNING — THE BURNING TEMPLE
  78. 78.LOVE DIVINE
  79. 79.BEHIND THE VEIL
  80. 80.THE REIGN OF LOVE
  81. 81.PLAS GOGERDDAN
  82. 82.ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
  83. 83.DAVID OF THE WHITE ROCK
  84. 84.THE HIGH TIDE
  85. 85."ORA PRO NOBIS"
  86. 86.A FLOWER-SUNDAY LULLABY
  87. 87.THE BALLAD OF THE OLD BACHELOR OF TY'N Y MYNYDD
  88. 88.THE QUEEN'S DREAM
  89. 89.THE WELSH FISHERMEN
  90. 90.III. Old and New Testament Studies
  91. 91.DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN
  92. 92.THE FIERY FURNACE
  93. 93.RUTH AND NAOMI
  94. 94.THE LILIES OF THE FIELD AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR
  95. 95.THE GOOD PHYSICIAN
  96. 96.THE SOWER
  97. 97.THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN
  98. 98.ST. MARY MAGDALEN
  99. 99.IV. Church Festivals
  100. 100.A CHRISTMAS COMMUNION HYMN
  101. 101.A CHRISTMAS CAROL OF THE EPIPHANY
  102. 102.A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY CAROL
  103. 103.EARTH'S EASTER
  104. 104.EASTER DAY, 1915 — I — II
  105. 105.THE ASCENSION
  106. 106.WHITSUNTIDE
  107. 107.HARVEST HYMN — CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS
  108. 108.V. Good and Faithful Servants
  109. 109.FATHER O'FLYNN
  110. 110.LADY GWENNY
  111. 111.OLD DOCTOR MACK
  112. 112.TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN OWEN — HARLECH CHOIRMASTER
  113. 113.SAINT CUTHBERT
  114. 114.ALFRED THE GREAT — A MILLENARY MEMORIAL
  115. 115.SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON
  116. 116."MEN, NOT WALLS, MAKE A CITY"
  117. 117.FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER
  118. 118.INSCRIPTION FOR A ROLL OF HONOUR IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL
  119. 119.AN EPITAPH
  120. 120.AN INTERCESSIONAL ANSWERED
  121. 121.VI. Personal and Various
  122. 122.LET THERE BE JOY!
  123. 123.A HOLIDAY HYMN
  124. 124.SUMMER MORNING'S WALK
  125. 125.SNOW-STAINS
  126. 126.REMEMBRANCE
  127. 127.SANDS OF GOLD
  128. 128.THE MOURNER
  129. 129.DE PROFUNDIS
  130. 130.IMMORTAL HOPE
  131. 131.WE HAD A CHILD
  132. 132.BY THE BEDSIDE OF A SICK CHILD
  133. 133.HE HAS COME BACK
  134. 134.SPRING'S SECRETS
  135. 135.THE LORD'S LEISURE
  136. 136.SPRING IS NOT DEAD
  137. 137.AIM NOT TOO HIGH
  138. 138.WILD WINE OF NATURE — IN PRAISE OF WATER-DRINKING
  139. 139.BRIDAL INVOCATION
  140. 140.THE COMING OF SIR GALAHAD AND A VISION OF THE GRAIL
  141. 141.ASK WHAT THOU WILT

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