Irish Poetry: An Interpretive Anthology from Before Swift to Yeats and After Book

	Introduction
	'To see the art of poetry lost'	3
	The Description of an Irish Feast	6
	Verses Said to be Written on the Union	8
	'Behold! A Proof of Irish Sense!'	8
	A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club	9
	Holyhead. September 25, 1727	14
	On the Words 'Brother Protestants and Fellow Christians'	15
	The Fable of the Bitches	17
	An Excellent New Ballad	18
	The Lady's Dressing Room	21
	A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed	24
	Stella's Birthday	26
	Phyllis	26
	An Elegy on the Supposed Death of Mr. Partridge, the Almanac Maker	29
	A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General	31
	Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D.	32
	On the Day of Judgement	44
	After the Irish of Egan O'Rahilly	46
	The Poet Egan O'Rahilly, Homesick in Old Age	47
	To Dr. Swift on his Birthday, November 30, 1721	48
	The Deserted Village	50
	The Description of an Author's Bed-chamber	60
	The Haunch of Venison	61
	An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog	64
	Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire (Gaelic text)	65
	The Lament for Art O'Leary	76
	The Midnight Court	84
	O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire	108
	Siberia	110
	Lament Over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga	111
	Lament Over the Ruins of the Abbey of Timoleague	114
	The Welshmen of Tirawley	116
	A Supplication	126
	Swift	128
	The Ballad of Reading Gaol	135
	A Woman's Sonnets (1-12)	154
	The Cold Heaven	158
	Easter 1916	158
	On a Political Prisoner	160
	Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	161
	Death	164
	Parnell's Funeral	165
	Cuchulain Comforted	166
	The Apparitions	167
	Politics	167
	Ode to the British Empire	168
	George Moore Becomes the Priest of Aphrodite	169
	On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition	171
	The Wind Among the Reeds	173
	The Passing of the Shee	174
	The Curse	174
	Danny	174
	The Mergency Man	175
	Ode of Welcome	177
	Gas from a Burner	178
	The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jaysus	180
	Night and Morning	182
	The Envy of Poor Lovers	183
	Three Poems About Children	183
	Orphide	184
	The Great Hunger	194
	A Wreath for Tom Moore's Statue	213
	The Hospital	214
	Death of Hektor	216
	Saint-Lo	224
	Mort de A. D.	224
	'The sunlight on the garden'	225
	Meeting Point	225
	from Autumn Journal (section 16)	227
	The Bloody Brae	230
	The Colony	244
	Nineteen Sixteen, or The Terrible Beauty	247
	The Tomb of Michael Collins	249
	Lough Derg	250
	from Is That Love You're Making?	254
	Ballad to a Traditional Refrain	255
	from The Weekend of Dermot and Grace (Sunday)	256
	Dies Irae (Gaelic text from Aifreann na Marbh)	265
	Downstream	273
	Nightwalker	275
	from A Technical Supplement	283
	One Fond Embrace	284
	All Legendary Obstacles	292
	A New Siege	292
	The Wild Dog Rose	297
	Stefano Remembers	300
	Claudy	300
	Requiem for the Croppies	302
	The Tollund Man	302
	In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge	304
	Casualty	305
	From the Frontier of Writing	308
	Two Lorries	309
	In Memory of Gerard Dillon	310
	Wounds	310
	The Man of Two Sorrows	311
	Eva Braun	312
	The Pleiades	312
	Reading Paradise Lost in Protestant Ulster 1984	313
	Lucina schynning in silence of the night ...	315
	Early Recollections	316
	Dead Fly	316
	Trinity New Library	317
	Death in Bangor	318
	Courtyards in Delft	320
	The Snow Party	321
	A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford	322
	At the Chelsea Arts Club	323
	The Kilfenora Teaboy	325
	The Levite and his Concubine at Gibeah	326
	The War Horse	328
	Listen. This is the Noise of Myth	329
	Mourning Becomes the Law	332
	On Ballycastle Beach	334
	Marconi's Cottage	335
	The Albert Chain	335
	Come All You Warriors ...	338
	The Ould Orange Flute	340
	Dolly's Brae	341
	The Croppy Boy	342
	Me an' Me Da	343
	On the Death of the Rev. Robert Traill, D. D.	345
	The Ballad of William Bloat	347
	Index of First Lines	349
	Acknowledgements	355