Irish Verse: An Anthology Book

Well, this was a charming little book, and a genuine treat to read; I was held in rapt fascination as I read delightful poems of young love and young couples who left beloved Erin for America, but ever-maintaining a fierce love and longing for their homeland.

This would have received five stars, if it had excluded a few of the selections whose benefit, frankly, is likened unto a five-ton antique elephant carven of ivory and gilt in gold-- It is kept because it is an antique, and valuable, but no one has sentimental attachment to it. I would never say that those pieces written in dialect are without value, but och! for my own personal uses, they were with only marginal benefit.