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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IRELAND Matches Found: 850 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A LAMENT FOR THE POTATO, A.D. 1739", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there is woe, there is clamour, in our desolate land" Last Line: "and shield us in the death-hour by thy strong, protecting hand" Subject(s): Ireland - Famine;potatoes "I AM OF [OR, FROM] IRELAND", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ich am of irlande [irlonde] Last Line: In irlande Subject(s): Ireland; Irish A BALLAD OF ATHLONE; OR, HOW THEY BROKE DOWN THE BRIDGE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Does any man dream that a gael can fear? Last Line: And the ten that shook bloody hands with death! Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland; War A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sarsfield rode out the dutch to rout Last Line: Was echoed from dungannon. Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan A BARD'S LAMENT OVER HIS CHILDREN, by PADRAIC GREGORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O river of great kings and sons of kings! Last Line: I lay my blessings on thee with my tears. Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish A BIRD FROM THE WEST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At the grey dawn, amongst the falling leaves Last Line: Oh! Fair the breaking day in ireland now. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming; Ireland; Irish A BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Where those green mounds o'erlook the mingling erne Last Line: What happy soul might choose that thought to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Variant Title(s): Under The Grass Subject(s): Cemeteries; Erne (river), Ireland; Graveyards A CATHOLIC TO HIS ULSTER BROTHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no bond of blood to you, my brother? Last Line: "lead on! Or follow, o my irish brother." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Catholics; Ireland; Ulster, Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Irish A DEDICATION, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My land, my erin, can we sing of thee Last Line: Is rippled weirdly by the mountain flaw. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish A DIRGE FOR KING NIALL OF THE NINE HOSTAGES (A.D. 405), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When we hosted forth afar Last Line: Host on host we faced the fight / but never fled the foe Subject(s): "niall, King Of Ireland (d. 405);war; A DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night - the globe was folded up Last Line: "behold the fighting smith!" Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish A GARAGE IN CO. CORK, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely you paused at this roadside oasis Subject(s): Ireland - Emigrants A MILKING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet st. Bride of the yellow, yellow hair Last Line: Briget, bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Kye-song Of St. Bride Subject(s): Brides; Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Faith; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Saints; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Belief; Creed; Saul Of Tarsus A NATION ONCE AGAIN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When boyhood's fire was in my blood Last Line: A nation once again. Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty A PLEA FOR THE BOG-TROTTERS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Base bog-trotters,' says the times Last Line: Around you lay. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A RALLY FOR IRELAND (MAY, 1689), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Shout it out, till it ring Last Line: Fight till yourselves or your foemen are slain! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions A SECOND PLEA FOR THE BOG-TROTTERS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mail says, that hanover's king Last Line: Their armies slaughter. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland A SONG FOR THE IRISH MILITIA, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tribune's tongue and poet's pen Last Line: A soldier's death, so ireland's free! Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty A SONG OF DEFEAT, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the lucky warriors Last Line: And victory less than defeat. Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish A SONG OF FREEDOM, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cavan of little lakes Last Line: There is no fetter for the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty A SPINNING SONG, by JOHN FRANCIS O'DONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love to fight the saxon goes Last Line: Wheel. Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Spinning; Irish A SUPPLICATION, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By our looks of mute despair Last Line: Kyrie eleison. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish A VISION OF CONNAUGHT IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I walked entranced Last Line: Of cahal mor of the wine-red hand! Subject(s): Connaught, Ireland A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lives of frail men are compar'd by the sages Last Line: For indeed I have ever been true to the crown. Subject(s): Booth, Sir George (1622-1684); Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Ireland; Travel; Coriate, Thomas; Irish; Journeys; Trips A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ABBEY ASAROE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray, gray is abbey asaroe, by belashanny [ballyshannon] town Last Line: Along the rough and crooked lane he crept from assaroe. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Abbey Asaroe, Ireland ADARE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet adare, o lovely vale Last Line: The sound of vernal joy is swelling. Subject(s): Adare, Ireland ADDRESS AND INVITATION TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tell you the truth, dear j., I was sorry Last Line: So come backpray dowhile the heather's in glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Elections; Ireland; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Irish ADVENT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's advent, and the woods renounce %your name Last Line: To kick the days ahead %and lets them burn Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland AFTER AUGHRIM, by ARTHUR GERALD GEOGHEGAN Poem Text First Line: Do you remember long ago Last Line: "for the green." Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish AFTER AUGHRIM, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'they gave me of their best' Last Line: Yet still their love comes home to me Subject(s): Ireland AFTER DEATH, by FRANCES ISABEL PARNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall mine eyes behold the glory, o my country? Last Line: "now mine eyes have seen her glory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Parnell, Fanny Variant Title(s): Ireland, Oh, My Country!;post Mortem Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish AFTERNOON OF THE SWIMMING PARTY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: A tidal wave, two old guys Last Line: Glitter without clothes Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland ALDFRID'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND, by FLANN FIONN Poem Source First Line: I found in innisfail the fair Subject(s): Ireland AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns AN APPEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her, o cruel england! Last Line: They can die and go to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): England; Faith; Ireland; Religion; English; Belief; Creed; Irish; Theology AN APPEAL TO IRELAND, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sin of our race is upon us Last Line: Through light and through love glorified. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The forward youth that would appear Last Line: A power must it maintain. Variant Title(s): Two Kings Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Ireland; Irish AN IRISH FACE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not her own sorrow only that place Last Line: Grow what we dream upon. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Faces; Ireland; Irish AN IRISH FANTASY, by JOHN FRANKLIN BLUNT Poem Text First Line: It so happens that I was born in cork' Last Line: "it helps us think as we plant we shall reap." Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Trinity, The; Irish AN IRISH HEADLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair head in antrim, long dark waves of Subject(s): Ireland; Irish ANDROMEDA, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They chained her fair young body to the cold and cruel stone Last Line: O ireland! O my country! He comes to break thy chain! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish ANGELINY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come right hyar, yo' angeliny Last Line: Tink yo's irish too? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Blacks; Ireland; Racism; Irish; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ANGLO-EIRE VIGNETTE, by PATRIC STEVENSON Poem Source First Line: Parting friends put me the query Subject(s): Ireland ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When the master was calling the roll Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the master was calling the roll Last Line: And raise their hands %as their names occurred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Ireland; Irish ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time Last Line: I lie here and plot the agony of resurrection Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Ireland ARAN, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is earthed to his girl, one hand fastened Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland; Love ARAN, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN Poem Source First Line: Aran of the many stags Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland ARBOUR HILL, by ROBERT EMMET Poem Source First Line: No rising column marks the spot Last Line: These waft their fame to heaven Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ARGAN MOR, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The danes rush around, around Last Line: Went from the rath alive! Subject(s): Argan Mor, Ireland ARRANMORE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O arranmore, loved arranmore Last Line: As sunny and as vain! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Arranmore (island), Ireland AS VANQUISHED ERIN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As vanquished erin wept beside Last Line: "the demon answer, ""never!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland AS WELL HIM AS ANOTHER, by DANIEL J. LANGTON Poem Source First Line: My name is molly. I read the odd book Last Line: Now that it's written, now that it's written down Subject(s): Books; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Writing And Writers AT CURRABWEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every night at currabwee Last Line: And where the vardar loudly roars? Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Ireland; Irish AT EASE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When she died he married her sister Last Line: And a ghost Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Ghosts; Marriage; Supernatural AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yon is the train I used to take Last Line: But I go home no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains AT TRINITY COLLEGE, by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In trinity's front square Last Line: My projected major is monogamy Subject(s): Ireland; Students, Foreign; Trinity College, Cambridge ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: 6, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine Last Line: America. Meat three times a day, they said. Slaves - you would %not be that Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Sullivan, Annie (1866-1936) AUNT DYMPNA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She had blue hair, a kerry blue dog Last Line: Not even the name of the next cat Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland AVENGING AND BRIGHT, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of erin Last Line: Revenge on a tyrant is sweetest of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Irish BATTLE OF OVIDSTOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh mary, get my coat of green Last Line: And set old ireland free Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: July the first of a morning fair Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690) BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: King william said, 'I don't deserve' Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690) BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A bullet form the irish came Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690) BATTLE OF VINEGAR HILL, by PATRICK F. KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: Proud marched the british army, in scarlet and in gold Last Line: And shed their blood in guilty strife for any king or crown Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks Last Line: Fusillarde of question-marks Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks Last Line: My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question-marks Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question BELFAST TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a girl from a dangerous town Last Line: Because the town's too small Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland BELFAST TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a girl from a dangerous town Last Line: I dream of her either loved or killed %because the town's too small Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland BESSIE GREY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If through killinchy's woods and vales Last Line: Their mingled blood is flowing Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BEYOND HIS REACH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He looked at his children, all nine Last Line: And loved his children like he loved question-marks. Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Love BILLY BYRNE OF BALLYMANUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was in the year of ninety-nine, we had reason to complain Last Line: Who stood upright for ireland's right and fought for liberty Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Where the shannon meets the sea Last Line: Pity is born Subject(s): Birth; Islands; Piety; Pity; Shannon (river), Ireland BLAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Don't blame the city, she said Last Line: And who do you blame, good sir, %for the poisoned irish sea? Subject(s): Anger; Cities; Ireland BLARNEY CASTLE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O blarney castle, my darlint! Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland BLARNEY STONE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stone there Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Stones BLUE AMBITION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She'd start novenas, %when you went off to barter Last Line: Granda, standing in your dream Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BLUEBERRIES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Driving north, the haze Last Line: In the blue cups of our hands Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BODENSTOWN, by MAEVE CAVANAGH MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: The lush grass hides forgotten graves Last Line: Of him who slumbers there Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOG MAGIC, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Granda cut turf with old gael grace Last Line: A wizard willing deadweights into fuel Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have no prairies Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps; Irish; Bogs; Fens; Marshes BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have no prairies Last Line: The wet centre is bottomless Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps BOLD BELFAST SHOEMAKER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you true born irishmen, where-ever you may be Last Line: I would make them fly before me like an arrow from a bow Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOLD ROBERT EMMET, by THOMAS MAGUIRE Poem Source First Line: The struggle is over, the boys are defeated Last Line: A hero I lived and a hero I'll die Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions BONNIE ANNIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing BOOLAVOGUE, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At boolavogue, as the sun was setting Last Line: The cause that called you may call to-morrow %in another fight for the green again Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOYS OF CROGHAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You loyal-hearted irishmen I hope you will draw near Last Line: For afeared like us he'd have you sent far from your native land Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOYS OF WEXFORD, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In comes the captain's daughter, the captain of the yeos Last Line: We're ready for another fight, and love our country still! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BRIGID, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Ring, ring, ring, ring! Hammers fall Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint BROADSTONE; NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath Last Line: Here they are all perfectly resolved Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland BROSNA'S BANKS, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER Poem Text First Line: Yes, yes, I idled many an hour Last Line: Be green upon the brosna's banks. Subject(s): Brosna (river), Ireland BROWN DRIMIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh say, my brown drimin, thou silk of the kine" Last Line: When the flint-hearted saxon they've chased far away Subject(s): Cows;nationalism - Ireland BUILDING WATCH AT COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: As little sonnets labor to be wired Last Line: While hard-hats whistling dixie take a leak Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BUT -, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He gets in touch only when he wants something Last Line: But Subject(s): Charm; Connemara, Ireland; Conversation; Crime And Criminals BUTCHER'S DOZEN: A LESSON FOR THE OCTAVE OF WIDGERY, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I went with anger at my heel Last Line: In silent grief from hill to hill Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BY MEMORY INSPIRED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "by memory inspired, and love of country fired" Last Line: Here's the memory of the heroes that are gone! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions;mourning; Bereavement CAMPAIGN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They had questioned him for hours. Who exactly was he? Last Line: Drawing pints for strangers, his almost-perfect fingers flecked with scum Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question CARRICK-A-REDE, IRELAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dwelt amid the gloomy rocks Last Line: A solitary man. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Irish; Loneliness CARROWMORE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: All about carrowmore the lambs Last Line: My belonging I %remember how cold I will be Subject(s): Carrowmore (cemetery, Ireland) CARROWMORE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It's a lonely road through bogland to the lake at carrowmore Last Line: And the old enchantment lingers in the honey-heart of earth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Carrowmore (cemetery, Ireland); Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish CASSANDRA SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE IRISH FAMINE, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Give me that sharp knife, the butcher's cutlass Last Line: Then die, begotten, eating reeds in ditches Variant Title(s): Cassandra Speaks About The Irish Famin Subject(s): Ireland CASTLECONNEL, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Broad, but not deep, along his rock-chafed bed Last Line: And sunny clouds are floating over all. Subject(s): Castleconnel, Ireland CATHAIR FHARGUS [FERGUS'S SEAT], by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With face turned upward to the changeful sky Last Line: And thus I wait till resurrection-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Arran (island), Ireland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CATHAL'S FAREWELL TO THE RYE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shining sickle! Lie thou there Last Line: Farewell, sickle! Welcome, sword! Subject(s): Leinster, Ireland; O'connor, Cathal. King Of Connaught CELT, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice clang like a brass kettle clanging Last Line: Things that had been mere history before Subject(s): History; Ireland; Irish Language CELT IN ME, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: In a museum here I saw a celtic swordblade Last Line: Their arms outstretched for me Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; History; Ireland; Museums CELTS AND SAXONS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We hate the saxon and the dane Last Line: We've hearts and nands for you. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Nationalism - Ireland CHANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The change from yesterday! Last Line: Jesus, the sea is fillin' the kitchen!' Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Ireland CHANGING STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Our irish style is changing,' she said Last Line: It seems we prefer steel kicks in the head %to stabs in the back.' Subject(s): Betrayal; Ireland; Violence CHIVALRY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I saw that ancient irish queen Last Line: And I was weeping in the iron age. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Chivalry; Ireland; Irish CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 12. SAINT BRIDE'S EVE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: At twilight on a lonely cattle trail Last Line: Her shadow falls, and wild hearts know its peace. Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Great Britain - History; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; English History CHRISTMAS AND IRELAND, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The golden stars give warmthless fire Subject(s): Ireland CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: It is the cat within us Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel CIRCLES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She seems to go round %in circles as narrow Last Line: In hot air, like a child's %circle on a steamy pane Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland CITY OF CORK, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: A man is coughing outside out window over Last Line: As this irish night rushes in upon me Subject(s): Cork; Ireland; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages CLANN CARTIE, by EGAN O'RAHILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is withered and my health is gone Last Line: I'd ram thy lamentation down thy neck. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Egan; AodhagÁn Ó Rathaille Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish CLARE COAST, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, cold island, we stand Subject(s): Ireland CLARE'S DRAGOONS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Vive la! For ireland's wrong Last Line: And the shamrock shine for ever new! Subject(s): Army - Ireland; War CLEARING FOR A NEW HOUSE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Long before the front-end loader Last Line: And the ones we will keep Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think, or hope at least, the coast is clear Last Line: But to make wits of fools is past your pow'r. Subject(s): Fools; Ireland; Sparta, Greece; Idiots; Irish CLONMACNOIS: A SHORT HISTORY, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's deserted except for the light Last Line: Others see boats, yearning upwards, %sails filled with star-pearled air Subject(s): Ciaran, Saint (516-549); Clonmacnoise, Ireland CLOTHES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stranger looks at his clothes on the floor Last Line: Go to your head Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Ireland; Masks; Nudity; Strangers COAST SCENERY, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: These iron-rifted cliffs, that o'er the deep Last Line: Its caverned base, the ocean's melancholy thunder? Subject(s): Ireland; Landscape; Seashore; Irish; Beach; Coast; Shore COCKY AND WEESHY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cocky robin hops out through the black bars Last Line: Hops back in again Subject(s): Birds; Flies; Ireland COLIN AND LUCY, by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of leinster, famed for maidens fair Last Line: And fear to meet him there. Subject(s): Leinster, Ireland COLUMCILLE'S GREETING TO IRELAND, by COLUMCILLE Poem Source First Line: Delightful to be on the hill of howth Alternate Author Name(s): Columba Subject(s): Ireland CONNACHTMAN, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's my fear that my wake won't be quiet Last Line: That the wind that lifts when the sails are lossed, %will never lift my heart Subject(s): Ireland CONNEMARA, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: The soft rain is falling Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Connemara, Ireland COOLE PARK, 1929, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I meditate upon a swallow's flight Last Line: A moment's memory to that laurelled head Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Coole, Ireland COOLE PARK, 1929, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I meditate upon a swallow's flight Last Line: A moment's memory to that laurelled head Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Coole, Ireland CORMACAN SINGS, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cormacan sings -- %there broods a calm upon the brow of kings Last Line: See that thou com'st no more where warriors sup' Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Cormacan An Eigeas (10th Century); Ireland CORRYMEELA, by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over here in england I'm helpin' wi' the hay Last Line: Sweet corrymela, an' the same soft rain. Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Moira Subject(s): Ireland; Irish COWS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Knee deep in may with grassy june before them Last Line: Pleasure: led dimly off, their only madness, flies Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland COWS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cows; Ireland; Irish CREMONA, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grenadiers of austria are proper men and tall Last Line: "for the evening air is chilly in cremona." Subject(s): Cremona, Battle Of (1702); Ireland; Irish CRICKETS WENT ON SINGING, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I remember the night you told me Last Line: Your smile half-crazed before you forgot Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses CROMWELL, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the celebrated carved misericords Last Line: And just outside the door %the swords Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; War CROPPIES LIE DOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We soldiers of erin, so proud of the name Last Line: Down, down, down, croppies lie down Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions CROPPY BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was early, early, all in the spring Last Line: Just drop a tear for the croppy boy Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions CROSSING THE BLACKWATER, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We stood so steady Last Line: Inisfail, for you! Subject(s): Blackwater (river), Ireland CYCLE, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Now, among familiar gulls and curlews Last Line: The effort of limbs pounding the air in panic Subject(s): Death; Dublin Bay, Ireland; Winter DAD'S ACCORDION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dad, no matter how you played it to your daughter Last Line: Because it frightened you,' was all you said Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland DAFFODIL DAYS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I bought the daffodils Last Line: Do not bloom for me, I ask, %do not bloom Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses DARK MARGARET, by JOHN FISHER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: We sit by the fire Last Line: With a welcome home to mary, you love best. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DARKEST LEAVES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I recall the morning crying awake Last Line: In & out of rooms, & dreams, %through the darkest leaves Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland DAWN ON THE IRISH COAST, by JOHN LOCKE Poem Source First Line: Th' anam tho' diah! But there it is Subject(s): Dawn; Ireland DAY IN IRELAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Four sharp scythes sweeping - in concert keeping Subject(s): Ireland DE GROVES OF DE POOL, by RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now de war, dearest nancy, is ended Last Line: Dat lives in de groves of de pool Alternate Author Name(s): Milliken, Richard Alfred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions DEAN'S REASONS FOR NOT BUILDING AT DRAPIER'S HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will not build on yonder mount Last Line: To serve a friend against his will Subject(s): Drapier's Hill, Ireland DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY! IN DARKNESS I FOUND THEE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Till touch'd by some hand less unworthy than mine Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Harps DEDICATION, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: I speak with a proud tongue of the people Variant Title(s): Slainthe Subject(s): Ireland DEIRDRE IS DEAD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps Last Line: Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Death; Deirdre; Drowning; Grief; Wind; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEIRDRE'S LAMENT FOR THE SONS OF USNACH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The lions of the hill are gone Last Line: "dig the grave and make it ready, / lay me on my true love's body" Subject(s): Deirdre;red Branch Knights (ireland) DESCRIPTION OF AN IRISH FEAST, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O'rourk's noble fare Last Line: Or a kick on the arse Subject(s): Feasts; Ireland DESERTED HOUSE, COUNTY GALWAY, by JOHN DREXEL Poem Source First Line: These, that have fallen into wildness Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Houses, Deserted DEVENISH, by JOHN READE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas year since I had heard the name Last Line: Of eventide fades out at night. Subject(s): Devenish (island), Ireland DIRGE OF RORY O'MORE; 1642, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the sea-saddened valley at evening's decline Last Line: Rolls the drige of thy last and thy bravest--o'more! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'more, Rory (1620-1652) DISAPPEARANCES IN THE GUARDED SECTOR, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we stop where you lived, the house Last Line: We will both come back Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland DISPOSSESSED POET, by MONK GIBBON Poem Source First Line: I am from ireland, %the sad country Subject(s): Ireland DOCKER, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, in the corner, staring at his drink Subject(s): Hate; Religious Discrimination; Catholics; Ireland DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys DONEGAL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bog cotton and whin. A stone Last Line: Goes up each morning, %singing to penetrate the sun Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Exiles; Irish Language DONEGORE HILL, by JAMES ORR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dew draps wet the fiels o' braird Last Line: Will act like donegore men %on any day Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Ballycarry Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions DRAPIER'S HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We give the world to understand Last Line: And drapier's vie with cooper's hill. Subject(s): Drapier's Hill, Ireland DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth Last Line: Fate across all them rolls Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry And Poets DREAM SONGS: 292, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish sky is raining, the irish winds are high Last Line: & the last voice in drawled; 'henry? A brick' Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Nationalism - Ireland DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world Last Line: Depressed, down on my knees Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor And Laborers; Prayer DRIMIN DONN DILIS (THE DEAR BROWN COW), by JOHN WALSH (1835-1881) Poem Text First Line: Oh! Drimin donn dilis! The landlord has come Last Line: With a blight on his life, and a brand on his brow. Subject(s): Cows; Ireland - Famine DRUNKEN LADIES, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: There was one drunken lady in dublin Last Line: There was one drunken lady in spain Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dublin, Ireland; Travel; Women DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey brick upon brick Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Variant Title(s): From The Closing Album Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey brick upon brick Last Line: Grey stone, grey water, %and brick upon grey brick Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Variant Title(s): From The Closing Albu Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland DUBLIN BAY, by EWART MILNE Poem Source First Line: Not now expecting to live forever Subject(s): Dublin Bay, Ireland DUBLIN BAY, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bay of dublin, how my heart you're troublin' Last Line: Heav'n knows how dear my poor home was to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady Subject(s): Dublin Bay, Ireland DUBLINESQUE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down stucco sidestreets, Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Funerals; Burials DUHALLOW, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away from my friends Last Line: Quite as old as duhallow! Subject(s): Duhallow, Ireland DUNLAVIN GREEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the year of seventeen ninety-eight Last Line: For the lose of his own dear comrades who died on the green Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions DYING SOLDIER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mother eire I have walked with you Last Line: I know, will seek from god my rest Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions EASTER 1916, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have met them at close of day Last Line: A terrible beauty is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy EASTER WEEK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who fears to speak of easter week Subject(s): Ireland ECLIPSE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Above us the table of night Last Line: On the night of your thirtieth year Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland EDWARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What plaintive sounds strike on my ear! Last Line: Revenge! Revenge! For edward's kill'd Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions EILEEN AROON, by THOMAS FURLONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll love thee evermore Last Line: Eileen a roon! Subject(s): Mayo (county), Ireland EILEEN AROON, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When like the early rose Last Line: Eileen aroon! Subject(s): Mayo (county), Ireland ELLEN OF ROSNA HALL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You remember ellen, our hamlet's pride Last Line: Shines pure as it did in the lowly shed. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Rosna Hall, Ireland EMMELINE TALBOT; A BALLAD OF THE PALE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a september day Last Line: Girt by his clan! Subject(s): Glenismole, Ireland EN PASSANT, by EDITH COURTENAY BABBITT Poem Text First Line: A dozen pencils, yellow, green, and blue Last Line: "the saints befriend you, lady!"" ""and you, sir." Subject(s): Ireland; Peddlers & Peddling; Irish EPILOGUE TO A PLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WEAVERS IN IRELAND, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who dares affirm this is no pious age Last Line: The poet's wit, than in the player's dressing Subject(s): Ireland; Weavers And Weaving ERIN [EIRE], by WILLIAM DRENNAN Poem Text First Line: When erin [eire] first rose from the dark-swelling flood Last Line: Rise -- arch of the ocean, and queen of the west! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ERIN'S DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor erin's daughter cross'd the main Last Line: In desolate despair Subject(s): Despair; Ireland - Famine ERIN'S FLAG, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unroll erin's flag! Fling its folds to the breeze! Last Line: "they'll sail to the music of ""home, sweet home!" Subject(s): Exiles; Flags - Ireland ERIN, O ERIN!, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Like the bright lamp that shone in kildare's holy fane Last Line: And the hope that lived through it shall blossom at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Erin, Oh Erin Subject(s): Ireland; Irish EXILE OF ERIN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came to the beach a poor exile of erin Last Line: Erin mavourneen, erin go bragh! Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish EXILE! EXILE!, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the room breathes out its grief Subject(s): Ireland; United States; Irish; America EXTEMPORE, by JOHN ST. LEDGER Poem Text First Line: Thou little tory, why the jest Last Line: The whiteness of the rebel rose. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Politics & Government FACING NORTH, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: It is little to do with me, I thought, waiting Last Line: There was no soundness in her, suppurating %bruises, sores and wounds. My hands are full of blood Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Tourists; Travel FAG AN BEALAGH, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope no more for fatherland Last Line: Foes of freedom, 'fag an bealagh!' Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland FAIR HILLS OF EIRE, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear the love of my heart to my land far away Subject(s): Ireland FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FAREWELL TO IRELAND, by COLUMCILLE Poem Text First Line: Alas for the voyage, o high king of heaven Last Line: Thou waterful land. Alternate Author Name(s): Columba Subject(s): Ireland; Irish FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL Poem Source First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost Last Line: This underpass is endless Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day FATHER MURPHY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you warriors and renowned nobles Last Line: For every man has a pike and gun Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions FATHER TO SON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Crooked? He was so crooked, son Last Line: He'd shit a corkscrew Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Fathers And Sons; Ireland FATHER, WHEN I WAS SIX, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The wind flung down the firs that stood on tiptoe Last Line: The moonlight anchored in your grasp Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers FEAGH M'HUGH, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feagh m'hugh of the mountain Last Line: And the feats of his hard-riding men? Subject(s): Kilmantan, Ireland FEAR OF IRISH SONS, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I have this notion of you: irish Last Line: I fear of my first son Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons FINGER LAKES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We stand in the shower Last Line: And towel each other before it gets cold Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We had never grasped hands Last Line: (which after all, was thicker than water) Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FIRST HOUR, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: This will never happen to me Last Line: My shaky, learning hands Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses FLYING TO IRELAND, AGAIN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's like looking down on a quilt Last Line: And left it behind in belclare Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FOG, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Our hospital sits on a rise Last Line: On the perfect white-out of a morning Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FOGGY DEW, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A splendid place is london Last Line: And I'd travel home to ireland and the foggy dew Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Homesickness; Ireland FONTENOY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice, at the huts of fontenoy, the english column failed Last Line: Fought and won! Variant Title(s): Battle Of Fontenoy Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745) (1745); Ireland - Rebellions FONTENOY, 1745: 1. BEFORE THE BATTLE: NIGHT, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bad the march, the weary march, beneath these alien skies Last Line: For faith, and fame, and honour, and the ruined hearthes of clare. Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty FONTENOY, 1745: 2. AFTER THE BATTLE, EARLY DAWN, CLARE COAST, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary mother, shield us! Say, what men are ye Last Line: "home to corca bascinn, in the morning light." Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty FOR THE OLD YEATS, by JAMES SCHEVILL Poem Source First Line: The great ripping goes on in all minds Last Line: To the bawdy laughter of the world Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) FORESHADOWINGS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oremus! Oremus! Look down on us, father Last Line: Will the crown, and the throne, and the palm-branch be given. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland FORGET NOT THE FIELD, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not the field where they perish'd Last Line: On liberty's ruins to fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions FROM MY B&B LIGHTHOUSE ON CLARE ISLAND, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Mostly when I think of grainne uaile Last Line: Looking lonely as one graffito Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience Last Line: But operated independently %and no ambassador would ever be relieved Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland FUN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A gang of boys and girls, loving fun Last Line: One girl says, 'it's like a fuckin' video.' Subject(s): Children; Ireland; Violence FUNCHEON WOODS, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark woods of funcheon! Treading far Last Line: When autumn-leaves are falling! Subject(s): Funcheon Woods, Ireland FUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Corruption rhymes with dublin Last Line: Relax. Enjoy the funny, stinking play. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dublin, Ireland GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language GALWAY, by MARY DEVENPORT O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: I know a town tormented by the sea Subject(s): Galway, Ireland GALWAY BAY, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the gulls' hysteria above me Last Line: Drowned nocturnally breast. Subject(s): Galway Bay. Ireland GALWAY TRAIN, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the dublin station, %the high rise and fall orf arms Last Line: Corners of the page folding in Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Railroads GENERAL MUNROE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My name is george campbell. At the age of eighteen Last Line: Brave emmet, fitzgerald, and general munroe Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions GENERAL WONDER IN OUR LAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In one great general peal Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly Last Line: Too cheap a bargain: the name, the work or the soul: glass beads are the trade for savages Subject(s): Death; Ireland GIGGLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If this coastal erosion continues Last Line: Used to be Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erosion; Ruins; Tourists GLANDORE, by ?? MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Though I have forsaken long Last Line: Among the scenes of sweet glandore! Subject(s): Glandore, Ireland GLASHEN-GLORA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis sweet in midnight solitude Last Line: That's breathed o'er glashen-glora! Subject(s): "glashen-glora (river), Ireland; GLENGARIFF, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered at eve by glengariff's sweet water Last Line: When the last of our foemen is vanquished and fled! Subject(s): Glengariff, Ireland GLENGARIFF, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gazing from each low bulwark of this bridge Last Line: Reveals new mountains as it floats away. Subject(s): Glengariff, Ireland GLORIOUS TWELFTH, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: You will remember that the twelfth was always dry Subject(s): Ireland GOODBYE, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye to tree and tower Last Line: My last goodbye. Subject(s): Farewell; Ireland; Parting; Irish GOUGAUNE BARRA, by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is a green island in lone gougaune barra Last Line: Where the mist and the rain o'er their beauty were creeping! Alternate Author Name(s): Callanan, James Joseph Subject(s): Gougaune Barra (lake), Ireland GOUGAUNE BARRA, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Not beauty which men gaze on with a smile Last Line: Clasps his cold mother's breast when life is gone. Subject(s): Gougaune Barra (lake), Ireland GRACE O'MALY, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She left the closed-aired land of trees Last Line: Such choosing, we commend her. Subject(s): Clare (island), Ireland GREAT HUNGER: 1, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clay is the word and clay is the flesh Last Line: Be easy, october. No cackle hen, horse neigh, tree sough, duck quack Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Variant Title(s): The Great Hunge Subject(s): Ireland - Famine GROWING UP, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I no longer had to stand on chairs Last Line: Everything grew up but me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland GUMMING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I asked malachy brandon, eighty - two Last Line: And don't give a fuck Subject(s): Aging; Apathy; Dublin, Ireland; Love HANDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Close to boiling water spilled Last Line: Burning now Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fire; Hands HANGOVER MASS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the sins of the flesh, that reprobate Last Line: Over sidewalk cracks' imaginary snakes Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life - Ireland; Sin HARBOR, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think if I lay dying in some land Subject(s): Harbors; Ireland HAVE WE DONE WELL FOR IRELAND?, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O country, writhing in thy chain Last Line: To soothe thee -- fated ireland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish HAVE YE COUNTED THE COST?, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will our leaders faint and falter Last Line: Then, may god defend the right! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland HAWK, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: He might have been carved, except I saw him Last Line: As evening spread its red tail on the water Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland HEART, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the heart of dublin, not even the long Last Line: Can undo the blackbird's song Subject(s): Ambulances; Birds; Dublin, Ireland; Fire HEARTBEAT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The heartbeat of a lethal irish joy Last Line: I mock I mock till I destroy Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Ireland HELEN'S TOWER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hears of helen's tower, may dream Last Line: When all the morning-stars together sang. Subject(s): Ireland; Sheridan, Helen Selina (1807-1867); Irish; Dufferin, Lady; Gifford, Lady HELEN'S TOWER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helen's tower, here I stand Last Line: In earth's recurring paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Ireland; Sheridan, Helen Selina (1807-1867); Irish; Dufferin, Lady; Gifford, Lady HENRY JOY MCCRACKEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was on the belfast mountains I heard a maid complain Last Line: The rebel wind shrieks freedom above her weary head Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions HER FRUITFUL SOIL FOR EVER TEEMS WITH WEALTH, by DONATUS+(2) Poem Source Last Line: An island worthy of its pious race, %in war triumphant, and unmatched in peace Subject(s): Ireland HER SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed. Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A light is burning late / in this georgian dublin street Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Love - Erotic HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A light is burning late %in this georgian dublin street Last Line: Their hooves through the moonlight Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erotic Love HERITAGE, by MARIE BLAKE Poem Text First Line: Why should the mountains confuse me with rapture? Last Line: The green hills of ireland call me again! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn Last Line: That call across the world to me. Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War HOME, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm back again in glenties and the autumn wind / is blowing Last Line: By the grave that holds my colleen in a glen of donegal. Subject(s): Absence; Donegal, Ireland; Graves; Home; Love; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Tombs; Tombstones HOME THOUGHTS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If will had wings / how fast I'd flee Last Line: Where my own love dwells. Subject(s): Homesickness; Ireland; Irish HORN HEAD, COUNTY OF DONEGAL, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of earth, her sister eldest-born Last Line: Hollowing its sunless crypts and sanguine caves. Subject(s): Horn Head, County Of Donegal, Ireland HORSE'S GRAVE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I remember bob-horse pulling Last Line: And a gap where the whins grew high Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Their pollen cleansed the air Last Line: That wove such a spell Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses HOSPITALITY IN ANCIENT IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh king of stars! / whether my house be dark Last Line: "but jesus, mary's son" Subject(s): Hospitality;ireland; Irish HOUSES OFF FRANCIS STREET, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: I have been four years away %from an irish autumn Last Line: And the quiet smoke begins %to hide them from the stars Subject(s): Absence; Forgetfulness; Ireland HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by CHARLES O'FLAHERTY Poem Source First Line: Oh! 't was dermot o'nowlan mcfigg Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To donnybrook steer, all you sons of Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland HY-BRASIL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter,' said the ancient father, pausing by the evening sea Last Line: In the sight of eden floating -- floating on the sapphire sea! Subject(s): Hy-brasail (island), Ireland I AM OF IRELAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And dance with me in ireland Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland I GIVE MY HEART TO THEE, O MOTHERLAND, by STANDISH JAMES O'GRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I give my heart to thee, ideal land! Subject(s): Nationalism – Ireland I GIVE MY HEART TO THEE, O MOTHERLAND, by STANDISH JAMES O'GRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now memory, false, spendthrift memory Last Line: Like pilgrims, wander on thy haunted shore. Variant Title(s): An Ancient Tale [or, Rhyme Subject(s): Bray, Ireland I WISH I WAS BY THAT DIM LAKE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Within their current turns to stone Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Superstition I'M IRISH ON THE ONE SIDE, SCOTTISH ON THE OTHER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source Last Line: Wrap up the rotgut' Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day IF EVER YOU GO TO DUBLIN TOWN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet he lived happily %I tell you Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland IMAGE OF IRELANDE, SELS., by JOHN DERRICKE Poem Source First Line: No table there is spread Last Line: They grow through daily exercise %to all iniquity Subject(s): Ireland; Travel IN CLONMEL PARISH CHURCHYARD; AT THE GRAVE OF CHARLES WOLFE, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the graves were many, we looked for one Last Line: In the churchyard of clonmel? Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Cemeteries; Clonmel, Ireland; Graveyards IN IRELAND: 1. ON INISHMAAN: ISLES OF ARAN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the twilight of the year Last Line: The grey sea's, in its low sighing. Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland IN IRELAND: 2. BY THE POOL AT THE THIRD ROSES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the sighing of the reeds Last Line: Is crying to come back again? Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IN IRELAND: 3. BY LOUGH-NA-GAR: GREEN LIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the world is of gold Last Line: That is old as the earth is old. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IN IRELAND: 4. BY LOUGH-NA-GAR: RAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into a land of wandering rain Last Line: A voice crying from far away. Subject(s): Ireland; Rain; Irish IN IRELAND: 5. IN THE WOOD OF FINVARA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears Last Line: And the peace that is not in the world has flown to me. Subject(s): Forests; Ireland; Woods; Irish IN MEMORY OF CONSTANCE MARKIEWICZ, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source First Line: The kind of woman that men poets Last Line: And shrill, but had a longer funeral %procession than most of us will have Subject(s): Connolly, James (1868-1916); Ireland - Rebellions; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916) IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill? Last Line: Blessed is the night that has no glowworm Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries; Graveyards IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill? Last Line: For probably all the same things will be born and be beautiful again, but blessed is the night that Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries IN THE SEVEN WOODS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the pigeons of the seven woods Last Line: A cloudy quiver over parc-na-lee. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Coole, Ireland IN THE YEARS OF SARSFIELD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I were over the curlew mountains Last Line: "^2^ macaulay's ""history of england,"" ch. Xvii." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan; War; Irish INDEPENDENT IRISH PARLIAMENT, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dazzling gleam of evanescent glory Last Line: The barren strand of slavery's shore was seen Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions INHERITING THE GIFT OF BLARNEY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: My mother kissed the inconvenient stone Last Line: And say death's the biggest %load of blarney there is Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Death; Ireland INIS FAL, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now may we turn aside and dry our tears! Last Line: Remains to us of all that was our own. Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish INIS-EOGHAIN [OR, INISHOWEN], by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the grey mountains of dun-na-n-gall Last Line: Who love not the promise of proud inis-eoghain! Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland INTERCESSORS, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our nuns come out to shop in the afternoon Last Line: When britain took the garrisons away Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland INVOCATION TO IRELAND, by AMERGIN Poem Source First Line: I invoke the land of ireland Subject(s): Ireland IRELAND, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ireland which the sea refuses Last Line: Imitates above all the irish Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets IRELAND, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ireland, o ireland! Centre of my longings Last Line: Keep me in remembrance, long leagues apart. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ireland never was contented Last Line: Emeralds big as half the county. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I called you by sweet names by wood and linn Last Line: In such a distant clime. Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Patriotism; Irish IRELAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire in her ashes ireland feels Last Line: When solid with high heart stand these. Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Irish IRELAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the dream of a god Last Line: I have left you at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remove me from this land of slaves Last Line: Townshend's cast page or walpole's groom Subject(s): Ireland IRELAND (1847), by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are dying! They are dying! Where the golden corn is growing Last Line: Health is blowing! Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Patriotism; Liberty IRELAND - 1915, by BRUCE PORTER Poem Text First Line: I could not sleep the night Last Line: You are grown old with dreaming. Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish IRELAND WEEPING, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON (1808-1870) Poem Text First Line: Utmost island of europe, loveliest land Last Line: Foxes stretched without breath, and their blood humming on the ground! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND WITH EMILY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bells are booming down the bohreens Last Line: Sings it own seablown te deum, %in and out the slipping slates Subject(s): Ireland IRELAND'S VENGEANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is thy day, thy day of all the years Last Line: Vengeance, to love them. Be that vengeance thine! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND, 1847, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woes of ireland are too deep for verse Last Line: Give back its suffe'rings to the sphere of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND, IRELAND, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down thy valleys, ireland, ireland Last Line: Ireland, ireland, green and sad. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND, MOTHER OF PRIESTS, by SHANE LESLIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fishwife sits by the side Subject(s): Ireland IRELAND: INVOCATION, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On your keening waters like gray eyes tear-misted Last Line: Ireland! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish IRELAND; A SEASIDE PORTRAIT, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Text First Line: A great, still shape, alone Last Line: "fields without walls that all the people own!" Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish IRELAND; WRITTEN FOR THE ART AUTOGRAPH DURING IRISH FAMINE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heartsome ireland, winsome ireland Last Line: Baltimore, 1880. Subject(s): Famine; Ireland; Irish IRISH, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father and mother were irish Last Line: For it is irish, too. Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; Irish IRISH 'PATRIOTS'; TO WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Source First Line: Thank you these men seek truly ireland's ease Last Line: It is expedient that they strut and strive! Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland IRISH DANCER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I come from ireland Subject(s): Ireland IRISH HAIKU, by GABY ROUGHNEEN Poem Source First Line: The smell of the winter is in it Last Line: It brushed against me, and I caught it Subject(s): Ireland IRISH HEADLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair head in antrim, long dark waves of Subject(s): Ireland IRISH INTERIOR, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman sits and spins. She makes no sound Subject(s): Spinning; Ireland; Irish ISLAND, by SEAN JENNETT Poem Source First Line: This island is the world's end Subject(s): Ireland JACK RUSSELL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: When uncle peter %went abroad Last Line: No kinder eyes, %the whitest coat of bones Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland JUST ANOTHER DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dear dublin, you sleep tonight in a bed Last Line: Will the good word be always late? Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Gossip; Hate; History JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am your little grandmother Last Line: And fields to liverpool Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents KATE KEARNEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o, should you e'er meet with kate kearney" Last Line: For fatal's the breath of kate kearney! Subject(s): "killarney (lakes), Ireland; KATE KEARNY, by SADY MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Oh! Did you ne'er hear of kate kearney? Last Line: Must die by the breath of kate kearney. Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland KATE OF ARAGLEN, by DENNY LANE Poem Text First Line: When first I saw thee, kate Last Line: Mo cailin ruadh! Subject(s): Arraglen, Ireland KATHALEEN NY-HOULAHAN (IRELAND); A JACOBITE RELIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "long they pine in weary woe, the nobles of our land" Last Line: May he show forth his might in saving kathleen ny-houlahan Subject(s): Ireland; Irish KEENE; OR, LAMENT OF AN IRISH MOTHER OVER HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly the cloud of night comes rolling on Last Line: Silent and dark! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ireland; Lament; Mothers & Sons; Irish KELLY OF KILLANNE, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's the news? What's the news? O my bold shelmalier Last Line: Glory o! To mount leinster's own darling and pride-- %dauntless kelly, the boy from killanne! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions KILCOLEMAN CASTLE, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sound of life was coming Last Line: On his head long, long ago! Subject(s): Kilcoleman Castle, Ireland KILLARY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all her brothers in the house Last Line: "we shall meet no more by killary!" Subject(s): Love; Ireland KILLYNOOGAN, by JOHN READE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Killynoogan, - hallowed name Last Line: Till it touches broad lough erne. Subject(s): Killynoogan, Ireland KILMALLOCK, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: What ruined shapes of feudal pomp are there Last Line: The charnel of yon desecrated fane! Subject(s): Kilmallock, Ireland KINCORA, by MACLIAG Poem Text First Line: O, where, kincora! Is brian the great? Last Line: Dead, o kinkora! Variant Title(s): Kincora Subject(s): Brian Boru, King Of Ireland (941-1014); Kinkora (palace), Ireland KING CORMAC'S CROWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Prince cormac sheathed his sharpest sword Last Line: Sate dead at the his banquet board! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish KING MALACHY AND THE POET M'COISI, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King malachy, shorn of crown and renown Last Line: And the wonders wrought by st. Patrick's prayer. Subject(s): Tara, Ireland KINSALE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What man can stand amid a place of tombs Last Line: Thy corner-stone forsook the mother-rock! Subject(s): Kinsale, Ireland KITTY OF COLERAINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping Last Line: The devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine Subject(s): "coleraine, Ireland; KITTY OF COLERAINE, by EDWARD LYSAGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping Last Line: The devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine. Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Women KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping Last Line: For very soon after poor kitty's disaster %the devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings KITTY OF KILLARNEY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the lakes of killarney Last Line: "achushla, why are you so mean?" Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland LADY ACHESON WEARY OF THE DEAN, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dean would visit market hill Last Line: Of this insulting tyrant dean! Variant Title(s): Dean Swift At Sir Arthur Acheson's, In The North Of Ireland Subject(s): Market Hill, Ireland LADY DAY IN IREAND, by PATRICK JOSEPH CARROLL Poem Source First Line: Through the long august day, mantled blue with a sky Subject(s): Ireland LAMENT FOR BANBA, by EGAN O'RAHILLY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my land! O my love! Last Line: James clarence mangan. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Egan; AodhagÁn Ó Rathaille Subject(s): Ireland; Irish LAMENT FOR GRATTAN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall the harp then be silent, when he who first gave Last Line: Of the wisest, the bravest, the best of mankind! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions LAMENT FOR IRELAND, by SHEMUS CARTAN Poem Source First Line: I do not know of anything under the sky Subject(s): Ireland LAMENT FOR THE MILESIANS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Proud were the chieftains of green inis-fail Last Line: As truagh gan oidhir 'n-a bh-farradh! Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland LAMENT FOR THE TYRONIAN AND TYRCONNELLIAN PRINCES BURIED AT ROME, by OWEN ROE MAC AN BHAIRD Poem Text First Line: O woman of the piercing wail Last Line: The blood of conn! Alternate Author Name(s): Owen Roe Mac Ward Subject(s): Escapes; Ireland; Lament; O'donnell, Rory (1575-1608); Fugitives; Irish LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on the stile, mary Last Line: When first you were my bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady Variant Title(s): The Irish Immigrant Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Mourning; Dead, The; Irish; Bereavement LAMENT OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH EXILE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I want to win me hame Last Line: Ancient history began. Subject(s): Exiles; Ireland; Lament; Irish LAMENTATIONS OF PATRICK BRADY, OR, THE HEROES OF NINETY-EIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye true born heroes I hope you will now lend an ear Last Line: You'll pray for pat brady, the hero of '98 Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions LAST FRIENDS, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come to my country, but not with the hope Last Line: For the hills of my country remember it yet! Subject(s): Friendship; Homecoming; Ireland LAST GALWAY HOOKER, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the corrib river chops through the claddagh Last Line: May I handle her well down tomorrow's sea-road Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Prostitution LATE WINTER ON CAPE COD, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Blackbirds this evening, %so many of them massing Last Line: A thousandfold and black-leafed, %the red-wings pause Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland LAY OF THE [IRISH] FAMINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hush! Hear you how the night wind keens around the craggy rock? Subject(s): Ireland LEAPING FIRE; I.M. BRIGID MONTAGUE (1876-1966), by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady, I now celebrate Last Line: A hollow note Subject(s): Ireland; Women LEINSTER, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I try to knead and spin, but my life is low the while Last Line: The foolishness is on me, and the wild tears fall! Variant Title(s): Irish Peasant Song Subject(s): Ireland; Irish LEITRIM WOMAN, by JOHN LYLE DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: People of ireland- I am an old woman Subject(s): Ireland LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: For the long-faded glories they cover Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland – History LIBERTY TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was the year of '93 Last Line: Would be the cry of every nation Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions LIKE DOLMENS ROUND MY CHILDHOOD, THE OLD PEOPLE, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Into that dark permanence of ancient forms Subject(s): Ireland LIMERICK IS BEAUTIFUL, by DION BOUCICAULT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner Subject(s): Limerick, Ireland LINES WRITTEN FOR THE ALBUM AT ROSANNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, lighty tread through these deep chestnut bowers Last Line: A spell to raise, to chasten, and to melt! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Rosanna, Ireland LISMORE, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: A meeting of bright streams and valleys green Last Line: Should set, dishonored, in a bloody sea! Subject(s): Lismore, Ireland LITERARY DUBLIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn near where'er you look, a writer's ghost Last Line: And daedalus's execration hung %above the city like a blind man's blessing Subject(s): Behan, Brendan (1923-1964); Dramatists; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Plays And Playwrights; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) LOCH INA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know a lake where the cool waves break Last Line: "ere I would leave thee, loved loch-ine" Subject(s): "lough Ina [inagh] (lake), Ireland; LOUD SHOUT THE FLAMING TONGUES OF WAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Loud shout the flaming tongues of war Last Line: Shall we unite in servitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; War; Irish LOUGH BRAY, by ROSE KAVANAGH Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: A little lonely moorland lake Last Line: A true, sweet, solemn memory. Subject(s): Bray, Ireland LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD, by KATHY CALLAWAY Poem Source First Line: Think of family, ulster irish Last Line: The old fishline unreeling again Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Ulster, Ireland MAMMOGRAPHY: A WORD WITH GRANDMA'S GHOST, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: They tell me I'm high-risk too Last Line: The land raised like an irish fist Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses MAN FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE, by FLORENCE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Into our townlan', on a night of snow Last Line: Was the man from god-knows-where! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MARIE NANGLE; OR, THE SEVEN SISTERS OF NAVAN; A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, there were sisters, sisters seven Last Line: "what aileth me, a novice nun?" Subject(s): Navan, Ireland; Nuns MAYO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wide sea flowing and a deep river going Last Line: Over your shining plains, mayo. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Mayo (county), Ireland; Sea; Travel; Irish; Ocean; Journeys; Trips ME AND YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Were you in killala Last Line: That was on croagh patrick Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns Last Line: Consider most to magnify, or to bless, %but take our greatness with our bitterness? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): My House Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower Last Line: To exalt a lonely mind, %befitting emblems of adversity Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): My Hous Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board Last Line: Had waking wits; it seemed %juno's peacock screamed Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind Last Line: These stones remain their monument and mine Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An affable irregular, / a heavily built falstaffian man Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An affable irregular, %a heavily built falstaffian man Last Line: And turn towards my chamber, caught %in the cold snows of a dream Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bees build in the crevices Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bees build in the crevices Last Line: Come build in the empty house of the stare Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions; Masonic Societies MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Last Line: Suffice the ageing man as once the growing boy Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions MEET ME AT THE ELEPHANT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Buffered by his cap and coat Last Line: On the way to natural history Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MEMORY OF THE IRISH DEAD, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who fears to speak of ninety-eight? Last Line: Like those of ninety-eight! Variant Title(s): The Men Of 'ninety-eight;the Memory Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions; Patriotism; Liberty; Irish MEN OF NINETY-EIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A hundred years have passed and gone since irishmen, they stood Last Line: Those brave united irishmen who died in ninety-eight Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MESSAGE FROM BELFAST FOR JUSTICE AND GERRY ADAMS, by JUNE JORDAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Adams, Gerry (b. 1948); Belfast, Northern Ireland MICHAEL BOYLAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you worthy members, your attention now I pray Last Line: Michael boylan is my name, and all good christians pray for me Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MICHAEL DWYER (1), by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At length brave michael dwyer and his undaunted men Last Line: For those, his gallant comrades, which died in wild immal Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MICHAEL DWYER (2), by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers searched the valley, and towards the dawn of day Last Line: For these, his gallant comrades, which died in wild immal Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MICHELANGELO, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: My father climbed ladders Last Line: All he knew was a towel- %he could mend the skies Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MINUETTE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines Last Line: Take carelessly, and carelessly. Variant Title(s): On The Freedom Of Ireland Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland MIRACLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the bluegreen sealight of donegal Last Line: Are a soft miracle Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Mountains MIRACLES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Water for guinness Last Line: You're walking on air Subject(s): Kildare, Ireland; Miracles; Water MITCHELSTOWN CAVERNS, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grimly it frowned when first with shuddering mind Last Line: Rich with elysian wealth and splendor ever new. Subject(s): Mitchelstown, Ireland MO CRAOIBHIN CNO (MY CLUSTER OF NUTS - MY BROWN-HAIRED GIRL), by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sword of light hath pierced the dark, our eyes have seen the star Last Line: Mo craoibhin cno! Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna Subject(s): Ireland; Irish MOIRA'S KEENING, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mountains of erin Last Line: O boy of mine! Dead. Subject(s): Sons; World War I - Ireland MOLLY ASTHORE, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary dear! O mary fair! Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland MOLLY ASTHORE, by GEORGE OGLE Poem Text First Line: As down by banna's banks I strayed, one evening in may Last Line: Ah, gramachree, ma colleen oge, me molly asthore! Variant Title(s): Maillign Mo Stoir Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland MOLLY ASTORE, by THOMAS FURLONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary dear! Bright peerless flower Last Line: My mary dear, with thee! Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morag of the glen was fey Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOTHER IRELAND, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first Subject(s): Ireland; Irish MOUNTAIN MEN, by WILLIAM ROONEY Poem Source First Line: Did you mark e'er a smoke-drift go sailing Last Line: We'll keep the old cause living still Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MOVING: 1, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I dream up wan excuses like dumb fate Last Line: I leave four walls, loud echoes, and my tub Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MOVING: 2, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: To move to greener pastures by this shore Last Line: What we just sold away: fat chance of that Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MUNSTER, by SLIABH CUILINN Poem Text First Line: Ye who rather Last Line: Then shines out young munster's morn. Subject(s): Munster, Ireland MUSTER OF THE NORTH, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joy! Joy! The day is come at last, the day of hope and pride Subject(s): Ireland MY BLESSING ON WATERFORD, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My blessing be on waterford, the town of ships Last Line: He'll take my two hands in his own and stoop to kiss my mouth. Subject(s): Waterford, Ireland MY LAST UNCLE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: He appeared at union station Last Line: With his suitcase and dreams Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MY NATIVE LAND, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced to me upon a time to sail Last Line: Is my poor land, the niobe of isles. Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish NANCY CHURNING, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Mute, homely, that was our Last Line: Where she rubs herself with the soot Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland NATIONAL PRESAGE, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy erin, what a lot was thine! Last Line: They know not what -- but surely something great. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish NATIONALITY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nation's voice, a nation's voice Last Line: With guardian grace, upon our isle. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland NATIVE IRISHMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Before I came across the sea Subject(s): Ireland NATIVE SWORDS; A VOLUNTEER SONG, JULY 1, 1792, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've bent too long to braggart wrong Last Line: Has native swords to guard it. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions NECK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He has a neck like a jockey's bollocks,' she said Last Line: And he goes to cheltenham in bed.' Subject(s): Ireland; Jokes NEMESIS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed. Great bells around me pealed! Last Line: Was as a funeral chime to me. Subject(s): Baltard, Ireland NEUTRALITY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The neutral island facing the atlantic Last Line: While to the west off your own shores the mackerel %are fat - on the flesh of your kin Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Ireland NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Anger flashing in the fist, the stick Last Line: Go with the stranger, or go alone. Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Violence; Youth NEW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Fear no more the noise of the boom Last Line: The irish whiskey is eden bliss. %tigerpiss. Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fear; Ireland NIGHT OFF THE MATERNITY WARD, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: There was always night's barter up on ilkley moor Last Line: For the starbloom I carried to the basket dark in my room Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Hospitals; Nurses NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In ireland now, why do so many Last Line: Good night, sweet prince, good night'? Subject(s): Death; Hope; Ireland; Poverty; Rivers; Sea; Suicide O BRAZIL, THE ISLE OF THE BLEST, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the ocean that hollows the rocks where ye dwell Last Line: And he died on the waters, away far away. Variant Title(s): Hy-brasail - The Isle Of The Blest Subject(s): Hy-brasail (island), Ireland O'BRIEN OF ARRA, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tall are the towers of o'kennedy [o'ceinneidigh] Last Line: To give him the cead mile failte. Subject(s): Arra, Ireland O'CONNELL, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with a liberated people's love Last Line: God crowned him victor for his work well done! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; O'connell, Daniel (1775-1847) O'CONNELL'S STATUE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chisel the likeness of the chief Last Line: If to man you'd change the stone. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; O'connell, Daniel (1775-1847); Statues O'CONNOR'S CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleep of storms is dark upon the skies Last Line: The tempest, and the desert, and the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ireland; Irish O'CONNOR'S CHILD; OR, THE FLOWER OF LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, once the harp of innisfail Last Line: The morat in a golden cup. Subject(s): Galway, Ireland O'DONOHUE'S MISTRESS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the fair months that round the sun Last Line: Dear love, I'll die for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland O'SULLIVAN'S RETURN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O'suillebhain has come Last Line: "is it thus, is it thus, that you return?" Subject(s): Bantry Bay, Ireland; Disasters; Shipwrecks O, BREATHE NOT HIS NAME!, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, breathe not his name! Let it sleep in the shade Last Line: Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Oh! Breathe Not His Name Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions; Nature ODE TO J. S. BUCKINGHAM, M.P.; ON REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DRUNKEDNESS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Buckingham, if I may take Last Line: Are not so much more temperate than others. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Ireland; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Irish; Prohibition ODE TO THE HILL OF HOWTH, by WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: How sweet from proud ben-edir's height Last Line: Chief of the fenians' happy hill! Subject(s): Howarth (hill), Ireland ODE TO THE KING; ON HIS IRISH EXPEDITION, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sure there's some wondrous joy in doing good Last Line: Falls sick in the posteriors of the world Subject(s): Ireland OF MOIRA UP THE GLEN, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's little that I'd care for the glories of ireland Last Line: The lovely unfolding of dream-purged desire. Subject(s): Doves; Ireland; Irish OF THE WARS IN IRELAND, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise the speech, but cannot now abide it Last Line: I shall forever love my home the better. Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish OF, OR FROM, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: These sons %become me Last Line: Become me they %become me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons OFF THE IRISH COAST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls on the wind Last Line: Ever for love that stung? Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Gulls; Ireland; Love; Seagulls; Irish OH! FOR A STEED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a steed, a rushing steed, and a blazing scimitar Last Line: To conquer if then to fall. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nationalism - Ireland OLD CHURCH AT LISMORE, by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old church, thou still art catholic! -e'en dream they as they Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Of The Nation Subject(s): Lismore, Ireland OLD GALWAY, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: Far in a garden's wreckage Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Galway, Ireland OLD IRELAND, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty Last Line: Moves to-day in a new country. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish OLD IRISH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old irish word for kiss Last Line: He knows how stupid it is to think Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Ireland; Kisses; Relationships OLD WOMAN REMEMBERS, by ISABELLA AUGUSTA GREGORY Poem Source First Line: Seven hundred and a half of years Subject(s): Ireland ON BAILE'S STRAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a clever man you are though you are blind! Last Line: [they go out. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish ON BEHALF OF SOME IRISHMEN NOT FOLLOWERS OF TRADITION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They call us aliens, we are told Last Line: The golden heresy of truth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Liberty; Irish ON CUTTING DOWN THE OLD THORN AT MARKET HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At market hill, as well appears Last Line: "then, bloody caitiff! Think on me." Subject(s): Market Hill, Ireland ON GREAT SUGARLOAF, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where sugarloaf with bare and ruinous wedge Last Line: Between two glooms, a transitory glow. Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A. Subject(s): Great Sugarloaf (mountain), Ireland ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads! Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD TOWNSMAN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young he left thee, poor he left thee Last Line: His will haunt the liffey shore. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish ON THE IRISH CLUB, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye paltry underlings of state Last Line: To rail at men by nature fools %but ********** %********* Subject(s): Ireland ON THE VIKING RAIDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Since tonight the wind is high Last Line: Coursing the irish channel Subject(s): Ireland; Vikings ON TRIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: We hold our breath, the island is on trial Last Line: The flesh becomes word: guilty. Subject(s): Guilt; Ireland; Trials; Waiting ON VISITING THE GREAT DUBLIN BREWERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brewing the best way hard money to win is Last Line: Guinness makes porter, and porter makes guineas. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Dublin, Ireland; Ale; Wine ONCE ALIEN HERE, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once alien here my fathers built their house Subject(s): Ireland; Irish ONCE ALIEN HERE, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once alien here my fathers built their house Last Line: Find easy voice to utter each aright Subject(s): Ireland ORANGE AND GREEN WILL CARRY THE DAY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ireland! Rejoice, and england! Deplore Last Line: Orange and green shall carry the day. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland ORANGE LILLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My dear orange brothers, have you heard of the news Last Line: Those freebooters ere long with the dead shall be numberedy Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ORANGE YEOMANRY OF '98, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am an humble orangeman Last Line: Who fought in ninety-eight! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions OSSIAN'S GRAVE, LUBITAVISH, COUNTY ANTRIM, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We stood and pondered on the stones Last Line: Came stepping past us, and we knew %his rider was no tinker's son Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Graves; Ossian (3d Century Gaelic Poet) OSSIAN'S GRAVE; PREHISTORIC MONUMENT NEAR CUSHENDALL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steep up in lubitavish townland stands Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Graves; Ossian (3d Century Gaelic Poet); Tombs; Tombstones OSSIAN'S GRAVE; PREHISTORIC MONUMENT NEAR CUSHENDALL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steep up in lubitavish townland stands Last Line: A life as inhuman and cold as those Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Graves; Ossian (3d Century Gaelic Poet) OULD KILKINNY, by JAMES B. DOLLARD Poem Source First Line: I'm sick o' new york city an' the roarin' o' the trains Subject(s): Kilkenny, Ireland OUR LADY OF KNOCK, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: They say our lady shone there once Last Line: Dreams travel back to where I can't Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland OUR OWN AGAIN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the coward shrink aside Last Line: We'll have our own again. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of him that I loved Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Irish OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of him that I loved Last Line: When the whole habit of the mind was changed, %the ocean breathed out morning in one breath Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration OURSELVES ALONE, by JOHN O'HAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The work that should today be wrought Last Line: Redeemed -- erect -- alone! Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland PADDY'S ODE TO THE PRINCE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty prince! Last Line: Remimber poor ould erin. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish PARADISE LOST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She phoned from idaho, he was in glin Last Line: Hell is the home of lost opportunity Subject(s): Idaho; Ireland; Love; Past; Remorse PARNELL, by DAVID CINTINO Poem Source First Line: In the queen's cellar at eltham Last Line: You needed, what needed you Subject(s): Ireland; Peasantry PASSAGE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town of passage is both large and spacious Last Line: In sweet bot'ny bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Variant Title(s): Attractions Of A Fashionable Irish Watering-place;the Town Of Passage Subject(s): Passage, Ireland PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Blessing from the lord on high Last Line: Over munster fall and lie! Subject(s): "munster, Ireland; PATRIOT MAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An irish girl in heart and soul Last Line: And raise the true and brave Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PATRIOT MOTHER, by EVA MARY KELLY Poem Source First Line: Come, tell us the name of the rebelly crew Last Line: As the heart of the martyr that hangs from it here Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PEG OF LIMAVADDY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Riding from coleraine Last Line: Peg of limavaddy! Subject(s): Limavaddy, Ireland; Travel; Youth; Journeys; Trips PHASES OF THE CELTIC REVIVAL, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Erin aboo! Though the desolate ocean Last Line: Tread, if you dare, on the tail of my coat! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish PICKING HIS WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: James joyce walks down a laneway Last Line: Blind stylish man Subject(s): Aging; Change; Cities; Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Walking PICKING SHAMROCK IN IRELAND, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Three leaves define the trinity Last Line: Satan to wash away our sins Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland PILGRIMAGE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the far south glittered Subject(s): Clonmacnoise, Ireland PILGRIMAGE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the far south glittered Last Line: Until our hollow ship was kneeling %over the longer waves Subject(s): Clonmacnoise, Ireland PLANTING SNOWDROPS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We cut through tangles in october Last Line: The wish that still returns Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland POEM WRITTEN IN TIME OF TROUBLE BY AN IRISH PRIEST, by ISABELLA AUGUSTA GREGORY Poem Source First Line: My thoughts, my grief! Are without strength Subject(s): Ireland PORTRAIT WITH BACKGROUND, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Devorgilla's supremely lovely daughter Subject(s): Ireland POSTCARD FROM IRELAND, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm here with the last good weather Last Line: From the underside, but the rafts of geese are already lost, %calling somewhere out in the bay Subject(s): Birds; Ireland; Travel PRAYERS I SAW ASCEND, by BERTHA L. GIBBONS Poem Text First Line: I never saw a prayer ascend to god Last Line: But many a prayer I saw ascend to god. Subject(s): Ireland; Prayer; Irish PRIEST OF ADDERGOOL, by WILLIAM ROONEY Poem Source First Line: There's someone at the window. Tap! Tap! Tap anew Last Line: Of all that trod that pathway and showed the way to die! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PRIESTS OF '98, by J. M. FURLONG Poem Source First Line: The story of our native land, from weary age to age Last Line: To feed it with their own heart's blood-the priests of ninety-eight Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND, by ALDFRITH Poem Text First Line: I found in innisfail the fair Last Line: From the irish. Tr. James clarence mangan. Alternate Author Name(s): Ealdfrith; Eahfrith Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips PROLOGUE INTENDED FOR 'VORTIGERN', by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cause, with learn'd investigation fraught Last Line: And give as they decide, your just decree. Subject(s): Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835); Shakespeare - Forgeries QUARANTINE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the worst hour of the worst season Subject(s): Ireland - Famine QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To queenstown harbour come great ocean ships Subject(s): Cobh, Ireland QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He bullied her for years Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused RANDALL M'DONALD, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady of antrim rose with the morn Last Line: Lorded both wife and land. Variant Title(s): A Legend Of Antrim Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland RATHANGAN'S EDWARD MOLLOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What use in delaying for vengeance to strike? Last Line: For the failure and fate of brave edward molloy Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions REBEL MOTHER'S LULLABY, by SHANE LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, rest to the morrow, for many the sorrow Last Line: Lennavan mo. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions REBELLION OF 1798, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The ruthless fitzgerald stepp'd forward to rule Last Line: So down, down, the croppies fell down Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RED HANRAHAN'S SONG ABOUT IRELAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over cummen strand Last Line: Is cathleen, the daughter of houlihan. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Song Of Red Hanrahan Subject(s): Ireland; Irish REGINA MENDOSENA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I'm regina mendosena, queen of all of shanty town Last Line: For I lay aside me titles and me very ancient name. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ireland; Nationalism - Ireland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Irish RESONANCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When protestants march down the catholic road Last Line: When a housefly makes its last confession. Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Ireland; Marching And Marches; Protest, Social; Religion RESPECT, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thady, sixty years out of donegal Last Line: Yet, on the litter, that stray offering Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon erin’s honor and erin’s pride! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Beauty RIGHTS OF MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I speak in candour, one night in slumber Last Line: He prayed success for the rights of man Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RISING MIST AT ARD NA SIDHE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I awake at dawn, at the alba Last Line: Are you awake now, my lord? Subject(s): Ireland RISING OF THE MOON, by JOHN KEEGAN CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Then, tell me, sean o'farrell, tell me why you hurry so? Last Line: Who would follow in their footsteps at the rising of the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Leo Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RIVERS OF IRELAND, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ne thence the irishe rivers absent were Last Line: To doe their dueful service, as to them befell. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Ireland; Rivers; Irish ROADS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Stonewalls, not knowing how to go Last Line: And scarecrows line his field Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland RODY MCCORLEY, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! See the fleet-foot host of men Last Line: On the bridge of toome to-day Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RODY MCCORLEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hero now I speak of, he was proper tall and straight Last Line: Till michael sounds his trumpet loud, and says ye dead arise Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES'), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say that roger casement / did what he had to do Last Line: That is in quick-lime laid Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Nationalism - Ireland; Treason And Traitors ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES'), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say that roger casement %did what he had to do Last Line: Here died the o'rahilly. %r.I.P.' writ in blood. %how goes the weather? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Nationalism - Ireland; Treason And Traitors ROISIN DUBH; OR, THE BLEEDING HEART, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O who art thou with that queenly brow Last Line: "through ghostly might." Subject(s): Ireland; Irish ROUSE HIBERNIANS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rouse, hibernians, from your slumbers! Last Line: That have come to set us free! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RUNOFF, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Watchful mildred, blind eye Last Line: I was hunched against february Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SACRED HEART PROCESSION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: One corpus christi you recall Last Line: And my heart, beating, beating %under all that lace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SAINT BRIGID'S DAY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The pintails rising in straight line Last Line: Is alive again and drinking Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SAMUEL BECKETT'S DUBLIN, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it is cold it stinks, and not till then Last Line: Who barely living therefore altogether %live till they die; and sweetly smell till then Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Dublin, Ireland SCHOOL NURSE'S JOURNAL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Must I open the paint-stuck windows Last Line: I count fifty sprites in the dell Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SEAN-BHEAN BHOCHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea, says the sean-bhean bhocht Last Line: Then hurrah for liberty! Says the sean-bhean bhocht Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SEPTEMBER 1913, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What need you, being come to sense Last Line: They're with o'leary in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'leary, John (1830-1907); Patriotism SEUMAS BEG, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man was sitting underneath a tree Last Line: He was a real nice man! He liked me too! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish SEVERED HEAD, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May, and the air is light Last Line: Propped a yellow cartwheel %against the door Subject(s): Ireland SEWING LESSONS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I can still feel the dig Last Line: As he blessed us from the top %of the class Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SHAN VAN VOCHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o, the french are on the say!" Last Line: Then hurrah for liberty! / says the shan van vocht Subject(s): "kildare, Ireland; SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN), by DION BOUCICAULT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O! The french are on the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner Subject(s): Kildare, Ireland SHANE'S HEAD, by JOHN SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: Is it thus, o shane the haughty! Shane the valiant! That we meet Last Line: In search of some o'neill, through whom to throb its hate again. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'neill, Shane (1530-1567) SHANID CASTLE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On shannon side the day is closing fair Last Line: And bless thee for the joys I yet remember well! Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland SHANNON WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He's going blind. Wrote a poem once Last Line: As the shannon flow Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rivers; Shannon (river), Ireland; Women SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps Last Line: From her own loved island of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Curran, Sarah; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions; Love SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean Last Line: Advance! And be your watchword ever -- god for ireland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): France; Italy; Nationalism - Ireland; Russia; Italians; Soviet Union; Russians SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, AND DUBLIN; A COMPARISON, by JOHN+(2) FORD Poem Source First Line: Two famous places I record Last Line: But I prefer the coal, though some %declare that whisky's warmer Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Silkstone, England SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is december in wicklow Subject(s): Ireland; Winter; Irish SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is december in wicklow Last Line: The once-in-a-lifetime portent, %the comet's pulsing rose Subject(s): Ireland; Winter SIR TURLOUGH, OR THE CHURCHYARD BRIDE, by WILLIAM CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bride she bound her golden hair Last Line: By the bonnie green woods of killeevy. Variant Title(s): Killeevy Subject(s): Cemeteries; Killeevy, Ireland; Graveyards SIXTEEN DEAD MEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! In the still night. Who goes there? Last Line: "guard her unconquered soul, strong in their death." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland - Rebellions; Heroes; Heroines SIXTEEN DEAD MEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O but we talked at large before Last Line: That converse bone to bone? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SIXTEEN MINUTES, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There in the sky above lewisburg Last Line: Through all the killing and hounding, we all but worshipped Subject(s): Ireland; Jews; Lewisburg Penitentiary (pennsylvania) SKIM-MILK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small part only of my grief I write Last Line: In cormac uasail mac donagh of the golden hair! Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Irish SLEEPING IN THE AUTUMN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Perhaps after so many years Last Line: I'd hug your empty pillow like a back Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SMALL DEFEATS: IN A DUBLIN CATACOMB, IN A RETIREMENT CONDO, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: In a dublin catacomb, I saw a nun's mummy Last Line: And raise up all your fallen flesh! Subject(s): Condominiums; Dublin, Ireland; Retirement SO FAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Ah! Me jewel an' darlin' dublin, me capital star Last Line: Only three murders this weekend, so far Subject(s): Cynicism; Death; Dublin, Ireland; Murder SOGGARTH AROON, by JOHN BANIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Am I the slave they say Last Line: Soggarth aroon! Subject(s): Ireland; Service; Irish SOLILOQUY OF THE IRISH POET, by VICKI HEARNE Poem Source First Line: My singing moves the wind, the seaking of swift horses Last Line: Threads inside the seams, binding him, freeing me Subject(s): Ireland; Irish Language; Poetry And Poets SONG, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: His war-horse beats a distant bourne Last Line: It weeps, and so must thou! Subject(s): Smerwick, Ireland SONG, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: She says: 'poor friend, you waste a treasure' Last Line: Grow larger in her eyes. Subject(s): Smerwick, Ireland SONG, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Slanting both hands against her forehead Last Line: Or lure jove's herald from above! Subject(s): Smerwick, Ireland SONG FOR JULY 12TH, 1843, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER Poem Text First Line: Come! Pledge again thy heart and hand Last Line: And we for one another. Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish SONG OF A TURF-SOD, by WILLIAM A. BYRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Draw in your stools, good folk, for heating Last Line: In my antiquity. Alternate Author Name(s): Dara, William Subject(s): Ireland SONG OF BALLYSHANNON, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take me home to ballyshannon, for there's music in the word Subject(s): Ireland SONG OF INNISFAIL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came from a land beyond the sea Last Line: Our great forefathers trod. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Irish SONG OF PROSPEROUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the twenty-fourth of may, at the dawning of the day Last Line: Long may they live and reign over bloody tyranny Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONG OF THE LITTLE VILLAGES, by JAMES B. DOLLARD Poem Source First Line: The pleasant little villages that grace the irish glynns Subject(s): Ireland SONG OF THE NORTH, by BRIAN O'HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: I sing a song of the northern land Last Line: At northern firesides-in ireland free! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONG OF THE VOLUNTEERS OF 1782, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah! 'tis done - our freedom's won Last Line: Hurrah for the volunteers! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONG OF TONE, by BRIAN O'HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: No craven dirge of sorrow Last Line: Of our own unconquered tone! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONGS OF OUR LAND, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Songs of our land, ye are with us for ever Last Line: Shall glory and live in the songs of our land. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish SONNET BY A SAXON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blarney! Blarney, wonder-working Last Line: How end my sonnet?echo answersblarney! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish SONNET: LAMENT OF THE LOYAL IRISH, 1869, by LUCY KNOX Poem Source First Line: England, that once with hard averted eyes Last Line: A fool who dares not do the folly planned Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland SPECIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There's a special poison to be found Last Line: Until all flesh %is dust. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Fear SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered / a place as kind as it is green Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Irish SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered %a place as kind as it is green Last Line: I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm irish Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SPENSER'S TOWER (IRISH PROSPECTS), by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing left. The monument's a ruin Last Line: Turnings are to be seen that all is in doubt, %the way here & back again, a stair %that rises now in Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SPINK MOUNTAIN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: All I know is that a red lamp gleamed on the delft Last Line: At last what was left of all I remember Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SPRING FLOWERS FROM IRELAND, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the letters rustling fold Last Line: And think the violet eyes thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Irish SPRING SONG: TO IRELAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep no more, heart of my heart, no more Last Line: And the springthe spring is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; Irish ST. MICHAN'S CHURCHYARD, by ROSE KAVANAGH Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Inside the city's throbbing heart Last Line: The peace of heaven was everywhere. Subject(s): Churchyards; Dublin, Ireland; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803) ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It seems to me st. Patrick's day Last Line: And blossoms sleep beneath the snow. Subject(s): Green (color); Ireland; March (month); St. Patrick's Day; Irish ST. PATRICK'S DAY WARNING, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: St. Patrick drove from ireland Last Line: And may the saints preserve you. Subject(s): Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Saints; Irish ST. PATRICK'S FIRST CONVERTS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morn on the hills of innisfail! Last Line: Was fulfilled in the land in an after day. Subject(s): Lough Sheeling (lake), Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century) STAG, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man said, 'I saw' Last Line: A doe and a fawn, and before, %a stag with head held high! Variant Title(s): The Deer Of Ireland; Reminiscence: Subject(s): Ireland START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Last Line: Making their mark against green gape-water, then gone Subject(s): Absence; Connemara, Ireland; Separation; Isolation START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Last Line: Making their mark an instant against green gape-water, then gone Subject(s): Absence; Connemara, Ireland STONE QUARRY: LATE CAPITALISM COMES TO THE REMOTE WEST COAST OF, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From here the stones were drawn Last Line: To take it and eat it %digesting even its name? Subject(s): History; Ireland; Stones SUNSET ON THE LOWER SHANNON, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Stilled are the winds, scarce heard far ocean's roar Last Line: And now the last expiring beam has fled. Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland SWALLOWS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Imagine the journey they make Last Line: And rise like one over water Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SWEET CASTLE HYDE, by EDWARD KENEALY Poem Source First Line: As I roved out on a summer's morning Subject(s): Ireland SWEET COUNTY WEXFORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As they from gorey set out that morning Last Line: But on such cowards great slaughter made Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SWEET GLENGARIFF'S WATER, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wildfowl swim upon the lake Last Line: By sweet glengariff's water. Subject(s): Glengariff, Ireland SWEET IMOKILLY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met, within the greenwood wild Last Line: By thy green woods, sweet imokilly! Subject(s): Imokilly, Ireland SWEET INNISFALLEN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet innisfallen, fare thee well Last Line: Is lifeless to one gleam of thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Innisfallen (island), Ireland SWINISH MULTITUDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me the man whose dauntless soul Last Line: For this we dare to die Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions TALES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often at sea, when fishing nets are down Last Line: Still keep their fairies singing on the weirs. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ireland; Sailing & Sailors; Anglers; Irish; Seamen; Sails THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And not simply by the fact that this shading of Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: And finds no horizon %will not be there Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes THE ANCIENT RACE, by MICHAEL TORMEY Poem Text First Line: What shall become of the ancient race Last Line: They shall not go, the ancient race!' Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE ARREST (1881), by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, terence mulligan, and sit upon the floor Last Line: The government then will let him out from black kilmainham gaol! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Ireland; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Prisons & Prisoners; Irish; Convicts THE BALLAD OF BALLYMOTE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stopped at her hut Last Line: “cabbage and bones,” she said. “cabbage and bones.” Subject(s): Social Problems; Ireland THE BANKS OF ANNER, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In purple robes old sliavnamon Last Line: Upon the banks of anner! Subject(s): Anner River, Ireland; Rivers THE BANKS OF THE LEE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the banks of the lee, the banks of the lee Last Line: And 'tis little I'd sigh for the banks of the lee? Subject(s): Lee (river), Ireland; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BANKS OF THE LEE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the banks of the lee, the banks of the lee Last Line: And 't is little I'd sigh for the banks of the lee! Subject(s): Lee (river), Ireland THE BANSHEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She sat beside the haunted stream Last Line: But mac caura's boast and mac caura's pride / is faded and lost forever Subject(s): Banshees;ireland; Irish THE BATTLE EVE OF THE BRIGADE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mess-tent is full, and the glasses are set Last Line: Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the irish brigade. Subject(s): Army - Ireland THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye genii of the nation Last Line: And ended the shaloo on the shannon shore. Subject(s): Ireland; Limerick, Battle Of (1690); Irish THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK (AUGUST 27, 1690), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hurrah! For the men, who, when danger is nigh Last Line: As the battle of luimneach linn-ghlas. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Limerick, Battle Of (1690) THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "july the first, in oldbridge town" Last Line: Of king william that crossed the boyne water Subject(s): "boyne (river), Ireland;boyne, Battle Of The (1690);" Williamite Wars THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE; FROM TWO OLD VERSIONS OF THE BALLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: July the first of a morning fair Last Line: As with blow and shout we put to rout / our enemies over the water Subject(s): "boyne (river), Ireland;boyne, Battle Of The (1690);" Williamite Wars THE BELLS OF SHANDON, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With deep affection and recollection Last Line: Of the river lee. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Variant Title(s): Shandon Bells Subject(s): Bells; Lee (river), Ireland; Music & Musicians; Patriotism THE BIRTH OF IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "with due condescension, I'd call your attention to what I shall mention of erin" Last Line: "for drinking and beauty, for fighting and love" Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE BLACKSMITH OF LIMERICK, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He grasped his ponderous hammer; he could not stand it more Last Line: "foreign gore!" Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Limerick, Ireland THE BLARNEY, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, did you ne'er hear of 'the blarney' Last Line: You may kiss whom you please with your blarney. Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland THE BLARNEY STONE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In blarney castle, on a crumbling tower Last Line: Has kissed, -- not calvary, -- but the blarney stone! Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE BOATMAN OF KINSALE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His kiss is sweet, his word is kind Last Line: The boatman of kinsale. Subject(s): Kinsale, Ireland THE BOG OF CLONDALLAGH, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER Poem Text First Line: Are the orchards of scurragh Last Line: From dear jane of clondallagh! Subject(s): Clondallagh, Ireland THE BROADSTONE; NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland THE BROTHERS: HENRY AND JOHN SHEARS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight; falls the lamp-light dull and sickly Last Line: Or die, if we can but live as slaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE BURIAL, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why rings the knell of the funeral bell from a hundred village shrines? Last Line: The oath they swore on the martyr's clay. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Tyrrell, Rev. P. J. THE BURIAL OF KING CORMAC, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Crom cruach and his sub-gods twelve Last Line: For still 'tis only dawning day. Subject(s): Cormac, King Of Ireland (3d Century) THE CALL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The unforgotten voices call at twilight Last Line: They will not give me peace at dawn and twilight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ireland; Loss; Memory; Voices; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish THE CELTIC CROSS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through storm and fire and gloom Last Line: When erin's self is drown'd. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE CHOICE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This consul casement - he who heard the cry Last Line: And banshee cries upon far irish hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Ireland; Irish THE CHRISTENIN', by PRIAM [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "on the plains of tooraneedin, where the rabbits keep on breedin'" Last Line: He's the one and only christian pig in all the countryside Alternate Author Name(s): Priam Subject(s): Baptism;christianity;ireland;pigs; Christenings;irish;boars;hogs THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the connaught rangers when they were passing by Last Line: And the green flags on their bayonets will flutter in the wind. Subject(s): World War I - Ireland THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can have made the grey hen flutter so? Last Line: The darkness. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE COUNTY MAYO, by ANTHONY RAFTERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, with the coming in of the spring, the days will stretch a bit Last Line: For age itself would leave me there, and I'd be young again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Raftery; Raifteiri, Antoine; O Reachtabhra, Antaine Subject(s): Home; Mayo (county), Ireland THE COUNTY OF MAYO, by THOMAS LAVELLE Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: On the deck of patrick lynch's boat I sat in woeful plight Last Line: And I sailing, sailing swiftly from the county of mayo. Alternate Author Name(s): Flavell, Thomas; Lavell, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE CROPPY BOY: (A BALLAD OF '98), by WILLIAM B. MCBURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good men and true! In this house who dwell Last Line: Breathe a prayer and a tear for the croppy boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, Carroll Subject(s): Deception; Ireland - Rebellions THE DARK PALACE (THE PALACE OF AILEACH, SEAT OF THE O'NEILL), by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There beams no light from thy hall to-night Last Line: Out of aileach neid. Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE DARK ROSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though all my loves of old have passed away Last Line: The wind from over your mountains troubles me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Love; Nature; Irish THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the harp, old minstrel, you have sung of / vanished things Last Line: For ireland at the dawning of the day! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Fables; Ireland; Allegories; Irish THE DEAD AT CLONMACNOIS, by ANGUS O'GILLAN Poem Text First Line: In a quiet water'd land, a land of roses Last Line: Many a swan-white breast. Alternate Author Name(s): O'gillan, Enoch Variant Title(s): Clonmacnois Subject(s): Clonmacnoise, Ireland THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEATH OF LEAG, CUCHULAIN'S CHARIOTEER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I only heard the loud ebb on the sand Last Line: "they come to you with sleep." Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland; Mythology; Heroes; Heroines; Irish THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ireland's cities, one by one, beneath the orange brand Last Line: Is doomed to perish by our love and sorrow unredeemed. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan; Irish THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD; A CHAUNT OF THE BRIGADE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sarsfield has sailed from limerick town Last Line: When we chase the foe from our native land! Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan THE DEATH OF SUALTEM, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse. Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE DESMOND, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the feal's wave benighted Last Line: Ranks next to divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Desmond's Song Subject(s): Feal (river), Ireland THE DEVIL'S WALK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, early in the morning Last Line: Bloodless as his coward soul. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE DIRGE OF ATHUNREE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Athunree! Athunree! / erin's heart, it broke on thee! Last Line: Athunree! Subject(s): Athenry, Ireland; Athunree, Ireland THE DIRGE OF DESMOND, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Rush, dark dirge, o'er hills of erin! Woe for desmond's name and race! Last Line: The man shall live who fought for god; the man who for his country died. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Lament THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys THE DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth Last Line: Fate across all them rolls Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish THE DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world Last Line: Depressed. Down on my knees Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Work; Workers THE DUNGANNON CONVENTION (1782), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The church of dungannon is full to the floor Last Line: She surrender the guns of her brave volunteers! Subject(s): Dungannon, Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions THE DUNOLLY EAGLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew Last Line: That clings to slavery for its own sad sake. Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, by LUKE AYLMER CONOLLY Poem Text First Line: To rathlin's isle I chanced to sail Last Line: The fairy isle is seen no more! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Rathlin (island), Ireland THE ENIGMA, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale victims, where is your fatherland? Last Line: And save or avenge your fatherland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE EXODUS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million a decade!' calmly and coldly Last Line: Ye're judged and doomed by the statist's pen. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE FAIR HILLS OF EIRE; O!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Take a blessing from my heart to the land of my birth Last Line: "and the sunlight that shone long ago on the shields / of the gaels, on the fair hills of eire, o!" Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A plenteous place is ireland for hospitable cheer Last Line: On the holy hills of holy ireland Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Dead! Ye are dead while ye live Last Line: You've a name that ye live -- but are dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE FAMINE YEAR, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger Last Line: And arraign ye as our murderers, the spoilers of our land. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Vengeance; Liberty THE FATE OF KING DATHI (A.D. 428), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly their glibs o'erhang Last Line: Lieth king dathi! Subject(s): Dathi, King Of Ireland THE FATE OF THE O'SULLIVAN'S, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby in the mountain gap Last Line: They never saw berehaven! Subject(s): Bantry Bay, Ireland; Ireland; Irish THE FIGHTING RACE [FEBRUARY 16, 1898], by JOSEPH IGNATIUS CONSTANTINE CLARKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read out the names!' and burke sat back Last Line: 1'98 Subject(s): Ireland; Maine (ship); Patriotism; Irish THE FLOWER OF FINAE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright red is the sun on the waves of lough sheelin Last Line: This nun is poor eily, the flower of finae. Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Death; Finae, Ireland; Nuns; Dead, The THE FOUR MASTERS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many altars are in banba Last Line: Faithful, grateful, just, to be! Subject(s): Tyrconnell Abbey, Ireland THE GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish THE GLEN OF GLANGOOLE, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: The hills are all around me, - in a dell Last Line: Wait me with welcome kind and friendly smiles. Subject(s): Glangoole, Ireland THE GOBHAN SAER, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stept a man out of the ways of men Last Line: His name and towers for centuries shall stand. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Ireland; Irish THE GOLDEN ISLAND: ARRAN FROM AYR, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep set in distant seas it lies Last Line: That vision of the golden isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Arran (island), Ireland THE GOLDEN TONGUE OF IRELAND, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER Poem Text First Line: Tongue of spice and salt and wine and honey Last Line: Calling doom on chieftains dying. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE GRAVE OF A POETESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beside thy lowly grave Last Line: And joy the poet's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Woodstock, Ireland THE GRAVE OF RURY, by THOMAS WILLIAM ROLLESTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Clear as air, the western waters Last Line: River-voices of the western vale. Alternate Author Name(s): Rolleston, T. W. Subject(s): O'connor, Roderic, King Of Ireland THE GREAT HUNGER: 1, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clay is the word and clay is the flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Variant Title(s): The Great Hunger Subject(s): Ireland - Famine THE GREEN ABOVE THE RED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full often, when our fathers saw the red above the green Last Line: Once and for ever more to raise the green above the red! Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty THE GREEN GRASS OF OLD IRELAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green grass av owld ireland! Last Line: By reason av the green grass av owld ireland. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grass; Green (color); Ireland; Irish THE GREENHORN YANK, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning I stood in the fair of dunleer Last Line: Concerning the rope and the nose-ring. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Americans; Bristol, England; Ireland; Irish THE GROVES OF BLARNEY, by RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The groves of blarney they look so charming Last Line: From the blarney stone! Alternate Author Name(s): Milliken, Richard Alfred Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland THE HARP, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The harp that once through tara's halls Last Line: To show that still she lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Tara;freedom Sleeps Subject(s): Freedom; Tara, Ireland; Liberty THE HARP, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This harp was all my father gave Last Line: "their strength could not restore." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland - History; Heroes; Heroines THE HARPER, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the green banks of shannon, when sheelah was nigh Last Line: I can nevermore return with my poor dog tray. Variant Title(s): The Irish Harper And His Dog;poor Dog Tray Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Shannon (river), Ireland THE HILL OF KILLENARDEN, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though time effaces memory Last Line: That day on killenarden. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Killenarden, Ireland THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish THE HILLS OF SWEET TIPPERARY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary dear, 'tis long ago Last Line: The hills of sweet tipperary. Subject(s): Tipperary, Ireland THE HOUSE OF USNA; A DRAMA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it who is near me Last Line: Seers and the will of the g Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Conchobhar Macnessa, King Of Ulster; Ireland; Irish THE INVASION: SONG. CEAD MILE FAILTE, ELIM!, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cead mile failte! Child of the ithian! Last Line: Cead mile failte, elim! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE IRISH AVATAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the daughter of brunswick is cold in her grave Last Line: T is the glory of grattan, and genius of moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Ireland; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Irish THE IRISH DANCER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am of ireland Last Line: Come and dance with me / in ireland Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;ireland; Irish THE IRISH HURRAH, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you hearkened the eagle scream over the sea! Last Line: Of the saxon reserve at the irish hurrah. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE IRISH NEW POLICEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your pardon, gents and ladies all" Last Line: For don't myself get half the booty? Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;ireland;police;streets; Irish;avenues THE IRISH PIPES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the piper playing Last Line: The things you let me know. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Pipers; Wisdom; Irish THE IRISH RAPPAREES; A PEASANT BALLAD OF 1691, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Righ shemus he has gone to france, and left his crown behind Last Line: The men that rode at sarsfield's side, the roving rapparees! Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER, by JAMES A. SIDEY Poem Text First Line: Come here, my boy, hould up your head Last Line: "of bally blarney college." Alternate Author Name(s): Sidney, James A. Subject(s): Ireland; Teaching & Teachers; Irish THE IRISHMAN, by JAMES ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The savage loves his native shore Last Line: The home of every irishman. Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Ballycarry Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish THE IRISHMAN'D DREAM, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Gloria! Gloria! With thee here this very pit Last Line: (she embraces, then kisses him.) Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands Last Line: She was our lady's dower. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet? Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish THE LAND BETRAYED, 1881-3, by STEPHEN EDWARD DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Near to the grave's mysterious brink Last Line: To penitence and suffering. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE LAND OF FAL, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If poesy have truth at all Last Line: To great o neill! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE LAND WE LIVE IN AND THE LAND WE LEFT, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: The children of the western gael Last Line: We're irish yet! We're irish yet! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE LAPFUL OF NUTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whene'er I see soft hazel eyes Last Line: That sat with thy white lap full of nuts / beneath the hazel-tree Subject(s): "limerick, Ireland; THE LEGENDS, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: They fought ere sunrise at tor conainn Last Line: "to the ""giant stepping-stones"" round the north." Subject(s): Tor Conainn, Ireland THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S CALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What is this? They say the irish fighting spirit Last Line: Stringsit's the little people calling, calling you to war! Subject(s): Ireland; War; World War I; Irish; First World War THE LOST LAND, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have two daughters Subject(s): Daughters; Ireland; Absence; Irish; Separation; Isolation THE LOST PATH, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet thoughts, bright dreams, my comfort be Last Line: Power, country, fame, and bride. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE MAIDEN CITY, by CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH TONNA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where foyle his swelling waters Last Line: Yet the maiden on her throne, boys, shall be a maiden still. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Charlotte Elizabeth Subject(s): Londonderry, Northern Ireland; War THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He stood among a crowd at drumahair Last Line: The man has found no comfort in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE MEETING OF THE WATERS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet Last Line: And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): The Vale Of Avoca Subject(s): Avoca (river), Ireland; Avoca (vale), Ireland; Friendship; Rivers THE MEN OF 'EIGHTY-TWO, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To rend a cruel chain Last Line: Our freedom! In a cruisgin lan! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE MONKS OF KILCREA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Three monks sat by a bogwood fire Last Line: As of old a sennachie taught the lay to me Subject(s): "kilcrea Abbey, Ireland;monks; THE MORE A MAN HAS THE MORE A MAN WANTS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning he wakes Subject(s): Ireland; Crime & Criminals; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Irish THE MOURNER'S SOLILOQUY IN THE RUINED ABBEY OF TIMOLEAGUE, by JOHN O'CULLANE Poem Text First Line: Abroad one night in loneliness I strolled Last Line: O death, when wilt thou come and lend a wretch relief? Subject(s): Timoleague, Ireland THE MUNSTER WAR-SONG; 1190, by RICHARD DALTON WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Can the depths of the ocean afford you not graves Last Line: To gorge the young eagles of dark eatharlach! Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE MUSIC OF ST. PATRICK'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again! Oh! Send that anthem-peal again Last Line: Our nature's limit in its proudest hour? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin THE NEW PATH, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We stand in the light of a dawning day Last Line: To build up a noble nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE OAKS OF GLENEIGH, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, think of the days when the crag's hoary masses Last Line: To breast the rude blasts, like the oaks of gleneigh! Subject(s): Gleneigh, Ireland THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails THE OLD LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back to ireland the leaves on the tree Last Line: For don't you remember? And could you forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Ireland; Memory; Dead, The; Irish THE OLD MAN'S BLESSING, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eye is dull, my hair is white Last Line: By hearts like thine is freedom won! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Old Age; Youth THE OLD OLD CHURCH (FOR IRISH CHURCHMEN), by J. DE B. SAUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: The old old church of the old old faith! Last Line: Bespeak our ancestry. Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Irish THE OLD SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young lad of happy sixteen Last Line: "and my last breath shall whisper, 'god bless grannia wael.' " Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Youth; Dead, The; Irish THE PIPES OF THE NORTH, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do ye hear 'em sternly soundin' through the noises of the street Last Line: Ye're sure the wings of gaelic souls as far as blood is true! Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Bagpipes; Ireland; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Scotland; War; Irish THE PRETTY GIRL OF LOCH DAN, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shades of eve had crossed the glen Last Line: And walk to luggelaw again! Subject(s): Lough Dan (lake), Ireland; Youth THE PROPHECY OF ST. ORAN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The storm had ceased to rave: subsiding slow Last Line: "that his blaspheming tongue may blab no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Ireland; Missionaries & Missions; Oran, Saint; Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Irish THE PURGATORY OF SAINT PATRICK, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pause, o patrick! Thou art going Last Line: Of this remote and lonely sea. Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Purgatory THE RATTLING BOY FROM DUBLIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a rattling boy from dublin town Last Line: Chorus. Subject(s): Courtship; Dublin, Ireland THE RED MAN'S WIFE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After great fire Last Line: They fell by deirdre! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE RETURN TO ULSTER, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once again - but how changed since my wanderings began Last Line: "and restore me the dream of my spring-tide again." Subject(s): Ulster, Ireland THE REVOLUTION AT MARKET HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From distant regions, fortune sends Last Line: Dispatch the rogues by whom they rise. Subject(s): Market Hill, Ireland THE RIGHT ROAD, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the feeble-hearted pine Last Line: Greece and rome. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE RIVER BOYNE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Child of loch ramor, gently seaward stealing Last Line: Thomas d'arcy mcgee. Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690); Williamite Wars THE RIVER MULLA, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old father mole, (mole hight that mountain gray Last Line: Did lose his name: so deare his love he bought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Mulla [awbeg] (river), Ireland THE RIVERS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a far-famed blackwater that runs to loch neagh Last Line: Our strength and delight. Subject(s): Blackwater (river), Ireland THE ROCK OF CASHEL, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and saintly cashel! I would gaze Last Line: Or thebes half buried in the desert sand. Subject(s): Cashel, Ireland; Castles THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RUINS OF DONEGAL CASRLE, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O mournful, o forsaken pile Last Line: To see thee left thus desolate! Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland THE SACK OF BALTIMORE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun is falling softly on carbery's hundred isles Last Line: More. Subject(s): Baltimore, Ireland; Kidnapping; Pirates; Tragedy; Piracy; Buccaneers THE SEA-CLIFFS OF KILKEE, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Awfully beautiful art thou, o sea! Last Line: The precipice, the ocean, and the sky. Subject(s): Kilkee, Ireland THE SHADOWY WATERS: INTRODUCTORY LINES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked among the seven woods of coole Last Line: September 1900 Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Coole, Ireland THE SHAMROCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Long may the shamrock Last Line: Still may they fondly grow together Subject(s): Ireland;shamrock; Irish THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea Last Line: Then hurra for liberty! / says the shan van vocht Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh boney's on the sea Last Line: Says the shan van vocht Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN); 1176, by MICHAEL DOHENY Poem Text First Line: The sainted isle of old Last Line: Says the shan van vocht. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE SHANNON, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: River of billows, to whose mighty hear Last Line: My lips with limerick's wrong, with aughrim's woes? Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland THE SIEGE OF LIMERICK, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By william led, the english sped Last Line: And blood and ruin round us! Subject(s): Limerick, Ireland THE SIGHTSEERS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and mother, my brother and sister Subject(s): Oppression; Ireland; Irish THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation THE SIX ROAD ENDS, by WILL CAREW Poem Text First Line: When folks hae got the meetin' an' sabbath dinner ower Last Line: "courtin' on the sabbath near the ""six road ends." Subject(s): Ireland; Country Life THE SONG OF FIONNUALA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, o moyle, be the roar of thy water Last Line: Call my spirit to the fields above? Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Moyle (river), Ireland THE SONG OF O'RUARK, PRINCE OF BREFFNI, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valley lay smiling before me Last Line: On theirs is the saxon and guilt. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Breffni, Ireland THE SPRING IN IRELAND: 1916, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget my charge I beg of you Last Line: We sail away -- be with us mananan! Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; World War I; Irish; First World War THE STORY WITHOUT END, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before my time my kindred were Last Line: The story without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Patriotism THE STREAMS, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your murmurs bring the pleasant breath Last Line: Amid the rush of streams! Subject(s): Streams; Ireland; Homesickness; Irish THE SUPRISE OF CREMONA (1702), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From milan to cremona duke villeroy rode Last Line: "macdonnell and mahony fighting for me." Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Cremona, Battle Of (1702) THE TALE OF MAD BRIGID, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then / there rung a bell Last Line: Of some late-flying wren. Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); God; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint THE THREE GIVERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England gave me sun and storm Last Line: That gave the richest gift to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; England; Ireland; United States; English; Irish; America THE THREE WOES, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That angel whose charge is eire sang thus, o'er the dark isle winging Last Line: Let god do that which he wills. Let his servants endure and adore! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE TRUE IRISH KING, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The caesar of rome has a wider demesne Last Line: And saints make the bed of the true irish king! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE UNION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three in one, but one in three Last Line: The royal commonweal! Subject(s): God; Ireland; Nations; Sea; Irish; Ocean THE VOW OF TIPPERARY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From carrick streets to shannon shore Last Line: And that's the vow of tipperary! Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE WAKE OF WILLIAM ORR, by WILLIAM DRENNAN Poem Text First Line: Here our murdered brother lies Last Line: The day is come -- arise! -- arise! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE WAR SHIP OF PEACE, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet land of song, thy harp doth hang Last Line: Columbia's glorious name. Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Jamestown (ship); Navy - United States; American Navy THE WAVES OF BREFFNY, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grand road from the mountain goes shining to the sea Last Line: And the little waves of breffny go stumbling through my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Variant Title(s): The Little Waves Of Breffny Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE WEARER OF THE GREEN; TO MY FRIEND JOHN JAMES DONOGHUE, M.D., by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now just a year since, come saint patrick's day Last Line: Unfortunate divilhe laughed at the green! Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Irish THE WEARIN' O' THE GREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?" Last Line: "and where, please god, I'll stick to wearin' o' the green" Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;patriotism;st. Patrick's Day; Liberty;irish THE WEARING OF THE GREEN, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, patrick dear, and did you hear Last Line: And wear the living green. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Ireland; St. Patrick's Day; Irish THE WEST'S ASLEEP, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all beside a vigil keep Last Line: "we'll watch till death for erin's sake!" Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE WILD GEESE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I walked by esknahinny at the waning of the moon Last Line: The wild geese, the wild geese, they have come home once more. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Geese; Ireland; Irish THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty Last Line: To find they have flown away? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text First Line: I sat within the valley green Last Line: The wind that shakes the barley! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE; OR, THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO HIS BIRTHPLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu to ballyshannon [belashanny]! Where I was bred and born Last Line: And I must quit my native shore, and the winding banks of erne! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Variant Title(s): The Emigrant's Farewell To Ballyshannon Subject(s): Ballyshannon, Ireland; Erne (river), Ireland; Farewell; Parting THE YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your pale faces, ye children of sorrow Last Line: Then patriots, heroes, strike! God for our land! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Europe; Ireland - Rebellions; Revolutions THE YOUNG PATRIOT LEADER, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! He stands beneath the sun, that glorious fated one Last Line: So we follow but that young chief's guiding. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland THE YOUNG SUICIDES IN IRELAND, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is lined Last Line: Ticking, tipping them forward. Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Suicide; Youth THELMA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She walks with me in search of bargains Last Line: The summer still racing ahead of us, frisky Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland THIS NATIVE LAND, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is a rich and rare land Last Line: This native land of mine. Variant Title(s): My Land Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THREAT OF FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Nobody spoke of the second war Last Line: Was the toll of the angelus Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland THREE FLOWERS, by NORMAN G. REDDIN Poem Source First Line: One time when walking down a lane Last Line: Though all the world should fall Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THREE GRAINS OF CORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother Last Line: Mother! Dear mother! Ere I die, %give me three grains of corn Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland THREE GRAINS OF CORN; THE IRISH FAMINE, by AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother Last Line: Give me three grains of corn. Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland; Irish TIGER LILY, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray are the gardens of our celtic lands Last Line: Spring after spring. Subject(s): Ireland; Tiger Lilies; Irish TINKER WOMAN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Walking in the january light Last Line: She carried the bottle home Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland TIPPERARY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let britain boast her british hosts Last Line: Thomas davis. Subject(s): Patriotism; Tipperary, Ireland TIPPERARY, by MARY EVA KELLY Poem Text First Line: Were you ever in sweet tipperary Last Line: On the plains of tipperary the stranger is like a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Eva; O'doherty, Kevin, Mrs. Subject(s): Tipperary, Ireland TIPPERARY: 1. BY OUR OWN JAMES OPPENHEIM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far, / the lineally-measured distance from east Last Line: But my sky-soaring soul, my myriad-hearted heart is there. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Geography; Oppenheim, James (1882-1932); Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 2. AS THE TRANSLATORS WOULD HAVE INTERLINED IT . . ., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou torquatus, the space to tipperarium Last Line: My heart at that location is present. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 3. AS THE INTERLINEARS MIGHT TAKE IT FROM XENOPHON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He spoke as follows: (that) it is ten parasangs Last Line: Exist the vitals of me. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 4. BY OUR OWN A. E. HOUSMAN, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alass in tipperary / is miles and miles away Last Line: Above my beating heart! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Tipperary, Ireland TIPPERARY: 5. BY OUR OWN EUGENE FIELD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been on many a lengthy trip since that I was Last Line: There. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Field, Eugene (1850-1895); Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements TO A DESPONDENT NATIONALIST, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore wail you for the harp? Is it broken? Last Line: Freedom, knowledge, independence, truth, and light! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland TO A SHADE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have revisited the town, thin shade Last Line: Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ghosts; Ireland - Rebellions; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Supernatural TO AUSTIN CLARKE, by EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: William butler yeats is dead Last Line: Crying before they are hurt, but brave' Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Last Line: When all is ruin once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Last Line: From fashion or an empty mind, %what referty built and stone designed Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO GOD AND IRELAND TRUE, by ELLEN O'LEARY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside my darling's grave Last Line: To god, to ireland, and to you! Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish TO IRELAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear witness, erin! When thine injured isle Last Line: When thou wert not, which shall be when thou perishest. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish TO IRELAND, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country, wounded to the heart Last Line: Loved ireland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know, that I would accounted be Last Line: After the red-rose-bordered hem. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Apologia Addressed To Ireland In The Coming Days Subject(s): Ireland; Irish TO KILBARRON CASTLE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad, blue, and deep, the bay of donegal Last Line: The churlish thistles thrive, and the dull graveyard grass. Subject(s): Kilbarron Castle, Ireland TO LADIES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sign in a pub in mullingar Last Line: Ladies must not have children in the bar Subject(s): Children; Drinks And Drinking; Ireland; Mothers TO THE CASTLE OF DONEGAL, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castle of donegal! Both green and gray Last Line: The times that suited thee are gone, thank heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days! Last Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Legends, Irish; Roses; Irish TO-DAY, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has the line of the patriots ended Last Line: With the passionate splendours of youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish TOMORROW, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her, that yer honor was spakin' to? Whin, yet honor? Last year Last Line: Yer honor 'ill give me a thrifle to dhrink yer health in potheen. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Ireland; Irish TONE'S GRAVE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave Last Line: Tili irelani, a nation, can euild him a tomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ireland - Rebellions; Nationalism - Ireland; Tone, Theobald Wolfe (1763-1798); Tombs; Tombstones TOWN OF PASSAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, passage town is of great renown Subject(s): Passage, Ireland TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: They sailed from cobh with a skeletal crew Last Line: Another qe2 Subject(s): Cobh, Ireland; Immigrants; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping; Travel TREE OF LIBERTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sons of hibernia, attend to my song Last Line: Derry down, down, traitors bow down Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 1. THE SAILING OF THE SWALLOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the middle music of the spring Last Line: And their four lips became one burning mouth. Subject(s): God; Ireland; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Spring; Storms; Irish TULIP FIELDS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It could be the netherlands here Last Line: That follow the tractor-plough, %like odd white tulips %in seas of red Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland TURLOUGH MACSWEENEY, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A health to you, piper Last Line: A health to you, piper! Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish TWENTY MEN FROM DUBLIN TOWN, by ARTHUR GRIFFITH Poem Source Last Line: Eire slainte geal go brath! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions TWO PAINTINGS BY SIDNEY NOLAN: 1. AFTER GLENROWAN SIEGE, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: Ned wounded kelly in his tin hat Last Line: A wooden stake through the heart of the world Subject(s): Ireland; Paintings And Painters TWO TRIPS TO IRELAND, by DAVID POLLOCK YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Well-eye, gazing at daytime stars Last Line: By a man so trapped in time Subject(s): Hotels; Ireland; Roads; Travel ULF IN IRELAND, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Text First Line: What then, what if my lips do burn Last Line: Horror, horror! Subject(s): Ireland; Irish UNA BAWN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Una bawn, the days are long, Last Line: Una bawn, and I must bide. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish UNDER THE EYES, by TOM PAULIN Poem Source First Line: Its retributions work like clockwork Last Line: A rain of turds; a pair of eyes; the sky and tears Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland UNION, by SLIABH CUILINN Poem Source First Line: How did they pass the union? Last Line: Alone our hearts shall blind! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should the world be luckier if this house Last Line: Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Upon A Threatened House Subject(s): Ireland – Rebellions VERNAL EQUINOX, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: While all the while I anguish Last Line: Birth was like that, a blue beginning Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland VIKING DUBLIN: TRIAL PIECES, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be a jaw-bone %or a rib or a portion cut Last Line: Lightly as pampooties %over the skull-capped ground Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Vikings VOICES FROM THE OLD WORLD: THE FAMINE OF 1847, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from out the highlands Last Line: When perish erin's daughters? Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Famine; Ireland - Famine; Scotland VORTIGREN: EPILOGUE, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Ye solemn critics! Wheresoe'er you're seated Last Line: A kind protector and a gen'rous friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Dramatists; Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WANDERER OF CONNAUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Norah, when wandering afar from the shade Last Line: With my sires who have gone to the mansions of peace? Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Connaught, Ireland; Wandering & Wanderers WAR SONG. REMEMBER THE GLORIES OF BRIEN THE BRAVE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the glories of brien the brave Last Line: To find that they fell there in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Brian Boru, King Of Ireland (941-1014); Munster, Ireland WARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dublin is gridlocked, cork crippled Last Line: There's a loose cow on the road. Subject(s): Cows; Dublin, Ireland; Traffic WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN Poem Source First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel WAYCONNELL TOWER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tangling wealth by june amassed Last Line: To-morrow's sun arises new. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Wayconnell, Ireland WE MUST NOT FAIL, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must not fail, we must not fail Last Line: We shall not fail -- we shall not fail! Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland WE TAKE OUR CHILDREN TO IRELAND, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What will they remember best? The barbed wire Last Line: Gorgeous, they replied. And meant it Subject(s): Ireland WEARING OF THE GREEN, by DION BOUCICAULT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh then paddy dear, and did you hear the news that's goin' around? Last Line: My native land, I cannot stand, for wearing of the green Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions WEEP! GALLIA WEEP!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weep! Gallia weep! In sorrow droop thy head Last Line: And make thy monument each patriot's heart Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions WELL O' THE WORLD'S END, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who go ye seeking, seeking, seeking Last Line: That nigh it I may rest awhile, and after fall asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna Subject(s): Ireland WEST OF BLUE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Someone said you just got tired Last Line: Full of all your empty things Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland WHEN GRANDA LEFT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I had never seen him like that before Last Line: As if granda himself had come back Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Would give fine weather Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Irish Catholic Church; Nationalism - Ireland WHEN SOUTH WINDS BLOW, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why sits the gentle maiden there Last Line: "he'll come when south -- when south winds blow!" Subject(s): Skellig, Ireland WHO WILL SHOW US ANY GOOD?, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful ireland! Who will preach to thee? Last Line: And ireland springs on the path of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland WILLIAM CARLETON; DIED JANUARY 30TH, 1869, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our land has lost a glory! Never more Last Line: As through triumphal arches, to the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Carleton, William (1794-1869); Ireland; Irish WILLIAM O KELLY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not since the gael was sold Last Line: The topmost blackberry! Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish WINTER IN IRELAND, by CHARLES BEWLEY Poem Text First Line: In winter twilights Last Line: Christ walks again. Subject(s): Ireland; Oxford University; Irish WOLFE TONE, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first storm of winter blew high, blew high Last Line: This grave is forgotten by irishmen Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Last Line: Quiet women and their heavy gods Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents WORK WHILE IT IS CALLED TO-DAY, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man hath hired us' - strong hands drooping Last Line: Lies hid in the great sealed book of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland WREN HUNTING, by THOMAS RABBITT Poem Source First Line: Up here, the tumbled ancestral house proves the irish are mad Last Line: Nor does she care that she be worth the penny paid tomorrow Subject(s): Ireland WRITTEN AFTER VISITING A TOMB NEAR WOODSTOCK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood where the lip of song lay low Last Line: Round the dark chamber where genius lies! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Woodstock, Ireland; Tombs; Tombstones WRITTEN BY THE BARROW SIDE, WHERE SHE WAS SENT TO WASH LINEN, by ELLEN TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Thy banks, o barrow, sure must be Last Line: Yes, then I'd hope for peace. Subject(s): Barrow, River, Ireland WRITTEN IN IRELAND, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blest would be ierne's isle Last Line: Wert thou as good as great. Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips WRITTEN ON THE SENSE OF ISOLATION IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: The irish faults are not so very new Subject(s): Ireland YEAR OF SORROW: 1849, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, through god's high will, and grace Variant Title(s): Sprin Subject(s): Ireland YOUNG MATRON DANCES FREE OF THE ISLAND, by MARY O'MALLEY Poem Source First Line: One tuesday in november she finished the wash-up Last Line: And she waltzed over the cliff, haloing beautifully down Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland; Suicide YOUNG WOLFE TONE, by FELIMY FIDILEIR Poem Source First Line: Where on the skyline mucklish lies Last Line: That honour young wolfe tone Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you want to find your way through dublin Last Line: The manic street will part for you Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Explorers; Sky; Streets |
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