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The Poem-book of the Gael

The Poem-book of the Gael

by Eleanor Hull

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Editor
Hull, Eleanor, 1860-1935
Title
The Poem-Book of the Gael Translations from Irish Gaelic Poetry into English Prose and Verse
Credits
Produced by Matthias Grammel, Ted Garvin, Digital Library@Villanova and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
PB: Language and Literatures: General works
Subject
Irish poetry -- Translations into English
Category
Text
eBook-No.
46917
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46917
Release Date
September 20, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE POEM-BOOK OF THE GAEL
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION
  4. 4.THE SALTAIR NA RANN, OR PSALTER OF THE VERSES — I. THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE — Creation of the winds with their colours — Measurements of the Universe — II. THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM — III. THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT. (vii.) — IV. THE FALL AND EXPULSION FROM PARADISE. (viii.) — V. THE PENANCE OF ADAM AND EVE. (xi.) — VI. THE DEATH OF ADAM. (xii.)
  5. 5.THE SOURCE OF POETIC INSPIRATION
  6. 6.AMORGEN'S SONG
  7. 7.THE SONG OF CHILDBIRTH
  8. 8.GREETING TO THE NEW-BORN BABE
  9. 9.WHAT IS LOVE?
  10. 10.SUMMONS TO CUCHULAIN
  11. 11.LAEGH'S DESCRIPTION OF FAIRY-LAND
  12. 12.THE LAMENTATION OF FAND WHEN SHE IS ABOUT TO LEAVE CUCHULAIN
  13. 13.MIDER'S CALL TO FAIRY-LAND
  14. 14.THE SONG OF THE FAIRIES
  15. 15.THE GREAT LAMENTATION OF DEIRDRE FOR THE SONS OF USNA
  16. 16.FIRST WINTER-SONG
  17. 17.SECOND WINTER-SONG
  18. 18.IN PRAISE OF MAY
  19. 19.THE ISLE OF ARRAN
  20. 20.THE PARTING OF GOLL FROM HIS WIFE
  21. 21.YOUTH AND AGE
  22. 22.CHILL WINTER
  23. 23.THE SLEEP-SONG OF GRAINNE OVER DERMUID
  24. 24.THE SLAYING OF CONBEG
  25. 25.THE FAIRIES' LULLABY
  26. 26.SONG OF THE FOREST TREES
  27. 27.ST. PATRICK'S BREASTPLATE
  28. 28.PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER
  29. 29.COLUMCILLE'S FAREWELL TO ARAN OF THE SAINTS
  30. 30.ST. COLUMBA IN IONA
  31. 31.HYMN TO THE DAWN
  32. 32.THE SONG OF MANCHAN THE HERMIT
  33. 33.A PRAYER
  34. 34.THE LOVES OF LIADAN AND CURITHIR
  35. 35.THE LAY OF PRINCE MARVAN
  36. 36.THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE
  37. 37.THE STUDENT AND HIS CAT
  38. 38.THE SONG OF THE SEVEN ARCHANGELS
  39. 39.THE FÉILIRE OF ADAMNAN
  40. 40.THE FEATHERED HERMIT
  41. 41.AN APHORISM
  42. 42.THE BLACKBIRD
  43. 43.DEUS MEUS
  44. 44.THE SOUL'S DESIRE
  45. 45.TEMPEST ON THE SEA
  46. 46.THE OLD WOMAN OF BEARE
  47. 47.GORMLIATH'S LAMENT FOR NIAL BLACK-KNEE
  48. 48.THE MOTHER'S LAMENT AT THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS
  49. 49.CONSECRATION
  50. 50.TEACH ME, O TRINITY
  51. 51.THE SHAVING OF MURDOCH
  52. 52.EILEEN AROON
  53. 53.THE DOWNFALL OF THE GAEL
  54. 54.ADDRESS TO BRIAN O'ROURKE "OF THE BULWARKS" TO AROUSE HIM AGAINST THE ENGLISH [107]
  55. 55.O'HUSSEY'S ODE TO THE MAGUIRE
  56. 56.A LAMENT FOR THE PRINCES OF TYRONE AND TYRCONNEL
  57. 57.THE COUNTY OF MAYO
  58. 58.THE OUTLAW OF LOCH LENE
  59. 59.THE FLOWER OF NUT-BROWN MAIDS
  60. 60.ROISÍN DUBH
  61. 61.MY DARK ROSALEEN
  62. 62.THE FAIR HILLS OF EIRE
  63. 63.SHULE AROON
  64. 64.LOVE'S DESPAIR
  65. 65.THE CRUISKEEN LAWN
  66. 66.EAMONN AN CHNUIC, OR "NED OF THE HILL"
  67. 67.O DRUIMIN DONN DILISH
  68. 68.DO YOU REMEMBER THAT NIGHT?
  69. 69.THE EXILE'S SONG
  70. 70.THE FISHERMAN'S KEEN
  71. 71.BOATMAN'S HYMN
  72. 72.DIRGE ON THE DEATH OF ART O'LEARY
  73. 73.THE MIDNIGHT COURT
  74. 74.HYMN TO THE VIRGIN MARY
  75. 75.CHRISTMAS HYMN
  76. 76.O MARY OF GRACES
  77. 77.THE CATTLE-SHED
  78. 78.HAIL TO THEE, O MARY
  79. 79.TWO PRAYERS
  80. 80.O MARY, O BLESSED MOTHER
  81. 81.I REST WITH THEE, O JESUS
  82. 82.THANKSGIVING AFTER FOOD
  83. 83.THE SACRED TRINITY
  84. 84.O KING OF THE WOUNDS
  85. 85.PRAYER BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP
  86. 86.I LIE DOWN WITH GOD
  87. 87.THE WHITE PATERNOSTER
  88. 88.ANOTHER VERSION
  89. 89.A NIGHT PRAYER
  90. 90.MARY'S VISION
  91. 91.THE SAFE-GUARDING OF MY SOUL
  92. 92.ANOTHER VERSION
  93. 93.THE STRAYING SHEEP
  94. 94.BEFORE COMMUNION
  95. 95.MAY THE SWEET NAME OF JESUS
  96. 96.O BLESSED JESUS
  97. 97.ANOTHER VERSION
  98. 98.MORNING WISH
  99. 99.ON "COVERING" THE FIRE FOR THE NIGHT [114]
  100. 100.THE MAN WHO STANDS STIFF
  101. 101.CHARM AGAINST ENEMIES
  102. 102.CHARM FOR A PAIN IN THE SIDE
  103. 103.CHARM AGAINST SORROW
  104. 104.THE KEENING OF MARY
  105. 105.CUSHLA MA CHREE
  106. 106.THE BLACKTHORN
  107. 107.PASTHEEN FINN
  108. 108.SHE
  109. 109.HOPELESS LOVE
  110. 110.THE GIRL I LOVE
  111. 111.WOULD GOD I WERE
  112. 112.BRANCH OF THE SWEET AND EARLY ROSE
  113. 113.IS TRUAGH GAN MISE I SASANA
  114. 114.THE YELLOW BITTERN
  115. 115.HAVE YOU BEEN AT CARRACK?
  116. 116.CASHEL OF MUNSTER
  117. 117.THE SNOWY-BREASTED PEARL
  118. 118.THE DARK MAID OF THE VALLEY
  119. 119.THE COOLUN
  120. 120.CEANN DUBH DHILEAS [115]
  121. 121.RINGLETED YOUTH OF MY LOVE
  122. 122.I SHALL NOT DIE FOR YOU
  123. 123.DONALL OGE
  124. 124.THE GRIEF OF A GIRL'S HEART
  125. 125.DEATH THE COMRADE
  126. 126.MUIRNEEN OF THE FAIR HAIR
  127. 127.THE RED MAN'S WIFE
  128. 128.ANOTHER VERSION
  129. 129.MY GRIEF ON THE SEA
  130. 130.ORÓ MHÓR, A MHÓIRÍN
  131. 131.THE LITTLE YELLOW ROAD
  132. 132.REPROACH TO THE PIPE
  133. 133.LAMENT OF MORIAN SHEHONE FOR MISS MARY BOURKE
  134. 134.MODEREEN RUE; OR, THE LITTLE RED ROGUE [120]
  135. 135.THE STARS STAND UP
  136. 136.THE LOVE SMART
  137. 137.WELL FOR THEE
  138. 138.I AM RAFTERY
  139. 139.DUST HATH CLOSED HELEN'S EYE
  140. 140.THE SHINING POSY
  141. 141.LOVE IS A MORTAL DISEASE
  142. 142.I AM WATCHING MY YOUNG CALVES SUCKING
  143. 143.THE NARROW ROAD
  144. 144.FORSAKEN
  145. 145.I FOLLOW A STAR
  146. 146.NURSE'S SONG
  147. 147.A SLEEP SONG
  148. 148.THE CRADLE OF GOLD
  149. 149.RURAL SONG
  150. 150.PLOUGHING SONG
  151. 151.A SPINNING-WHEEL DITTY
  152. 152.NOTES

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