Produced by Brian Foley, Ron Stephens and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) A BOOK OF IRISH VERSE A BOOK OF IRISH VERSE SELECTED FROM MODERN WRITERS WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY W.B. YEATS METHUEN AND CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1900 _Revised Edition_ W.H. WHITE AND CO. LTD. RIVERSIDE PRESS, EDINBURGH TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LITERARY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN AND THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF LONDON CONTENTS PAGE Preface xiii Modern Irish Poetry xvii Old Age _Oliver Goldsmith_ (1725-1774) 1 The Village Preacher " " " " 2 The Deserter's Meditation _John Philpot Curran_ (1750--1817) 3 'Thou canst not boast' _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_ (1751-1816) 4 Kathleen O'More _James Nugent Reynolds_ ( -1802) 5 The Groves of Blarney _Richard Alfred Milliken_ (1767-1815) 6 The Light of other Days _Thomas Moore_ (1779-1852) 10 'At the Mid Hour of Night' " " " " 11 The Burial of Sir John Moore _Rev. Charles Wolfe_ (1791-1823) 12 The Convict of Clonmel _Jeremiah Joseph Callanan_ (1795-1839) 14 The Outlaw of Loch Lene " " " 16 Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear " " " 17 Love Song _George Darley_ (1795-1846) 20 The Whistlin' Thief _Samuel Lover_ (1797-1868) 22 Soggarth Aroon _John Banim_ (1798-1842) 24 Dark Rosaleen _James Clarence Mangan_ (1803-1849) 27 Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell " " " 31 A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald " " " 41 The Woman of Three Cows _James Clarence Mangan_ (1803-1849) 43 Prince Alfrid's Itinerary through Ireland " " " 47 O'Hussey's Ode to The Maguire " " " 50 The Nameless One " " " 55 Siberia " " " 57 Hy-Brasail _Gerald Griffin_ (1803-1840) 59 Mo Craoibhin Cno _Edward Walsh_ (1805-1850) 61