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Subject: DONEGAL, IRELAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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