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Subject: GAELIC
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CARTHON, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A tale of the times of old! The deeds of days of other years
Last Line: The blast of the north is on the plain; %the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mythology - Gaelic


FAIRIES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden-poet, come with me
Last Line: Innocent and overgrown?
Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Elves


FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 2D SERIES. DEDICATION, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear countrymen, whate'er is left to us
Last Line: Secure an anchor for their keltic souls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Manx Gaelic (language)


HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ebb like the ocean
Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Women's Rights; Gaelic; Feminism


IN MEMORIAM: A.F (OB. OCT. 12, 1879), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright skies, bright sea
Last Line: Has blessed our children -- it is well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Death; Manx Gaelic (language); Dead, The


INVOCATION OF PEACE; AFTER THE GAELIC, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep peace I breathe into you
Last Line: Peace! Peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Language; Peace; Prayer; Gaelic


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


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 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)


SHALL GAELIC DIE?, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A picture has no grammar. It has neither evil nor good
Last Line: The 'sobhrach' or the primrose' was in our hands. Its reasons belonged to us
Subject(s): Gaelic Language


THE MOUNTAIN MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half seated on a mossy crag
Last Line: I could not comprehend her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Gaelic Language


THE PASSING OF CAOILTE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas just before the truce sang thro' the din
Last Line: And where they went away what man has heard?
Subject(s): Heroism; Mythology - Australian; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Heroes; Heroines