A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers, with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats

But I grieve not, eagle of the empty eyrie, That thy wrathful cry is still; And that the songs alone of peaceful mourners Are heard to-day on Erin's hill; Better far, if brother...

These three poets published much of their best work before and during the Fenian movement, which, like 'Young Ireland,' had its poets, though but a small number. Charles Kickham...

There are lands where manly toil Surely reaps the crop it sows, Glorious woods and teeming soil, Where the broad Missouri flows: Through the trees the smoke shall rise, From our...

Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses, Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool, Overhead the sunset fire and flame amasses, And the moon to Eastward rise...

Great were their acts, their passions, and their sports; With clay and stone They piled on strath and shore those mystic forts, Not yet undone; On cairn-crown'd hills they held...

Like music by the desolate Land's End, Mournful forgetfulness hath broken: No more words kindred to the winds are spoken, Where upon iron cliffs whole seas expend That strength,...

But the lesson of hell he taught him in heart and mind, For to what desire soever he inclined, Of anger, lust, or pride, He had it gratified, Till he ranged the circle wide Of a...

On the ocean that hollows the rocks where ye dwell, A shadowy land has appeared, as they tell; Men thought it a region of sunshine and rest, And they called it _Hy-Brasail_ the...

Am I the slave they say, Soggarth aroon? Since you did show the way, Soggarth aroon, _Their_ slave no more to be, While they would work with me Old Ireland's slavery, Soggarth a...

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Page 112, line 6. Thomas Davis had an Irish father and a Welsh mother, and Emily Brontë an Irish father and a Cornish mother, and there seems no reason for including the first a...