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First Line: "there is woe, there is clamour, in our desolate land"
Last Line: "and shield us in the death-hour by thy strong, protecting hand"
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine;potatoes


"I AM OF [OR, FROM] IRELAND", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ich am of irlande [irlonde]
Last Line: In irlande
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


A BALLAD OF ATHLONE; OR, HOW THEY BROKE DOWN THE BRIDGE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Does any man dream that a gael can fear?
Last Line: And the ten that shook bloody hands with death!
Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland; War


A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Sarsfield rode out the dutch to rout
Last Line: Was echoed from dungannon.
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan


A BARD'S LAMENT OVER HIS CHILDREN, by PADRAIC GREGORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O river of great kings and sons of kings!
Last Line: I lay my blessings on thee with my tears.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


A BIRD FROM THE WEST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At the grey dawn, amongst the falling leaves
Last Line: Oh! Fair the breaking day in ireland now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming; Ireland; Irish


A BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Where those green mounds o'erlook the mingling erne
Last Line: What happy soul might choose that thought to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Variant Title(s): Under The Grass
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Erne (river), Ireland; Graveyards


A CATHOLIC TO HIS ULSTER BROTHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there no bond of blood to you, my brother?
Last Line: "lead on! Or follow, o my irish brother."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Catholics; Ireland; Ulster, Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Irish


A DEDICATION, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My land, my erin, can we sing of thee
Last Line: Is rippled weirdly by the mountain flaw.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


A DIRGE FOR KING NIALL OF THE NINE HOSTAGES (A.D. 405), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When we hosted forth afar
Last Line: Host on host we faced the fight / but never fled the foe
Subject(s): "niall, King Of Ireland (d. 405);war;


A DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas night - the globe was folded up
Last Line: "behold the fighting smith!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish


A GARAGE IN CO. CORK, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely you paused at this roadside oasis
Subject(s): Ireland - Emigrants


A MILKING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweet st. Bride of the yellow, yellow hair
Last Line: Briget, bride!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): The Kye-song Of St. Bride
Subject(s): Brides; Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Faith; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Saints; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Belief; Creed; Saul Of Tarsus


A NATION ONCE AGAIN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When boyhood's fire was in my blood
Last Line: A nation once again.
Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty


A PLEA FOR THE BOG-TROTTERS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Base bog-trotters,' says the times
Last Line: Around you lay.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood


A RALLY FOR IRELAND (MAY, 1689), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Shout it out, till it ring
Last Line: Fight till yourselves or your foemen are slain!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


A SECOND PLEA FOR THE BOG-TROTTERS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mail says, that hanover's king
Last Line: Their armies slaughter.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


A SONG FOR THE IRISH MILITIA, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tribune's tongue and poet's pen
Last Line: A soldier's death, so ireland's free!
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty


A SONG OF DEFEAT, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for the lucky warriors
Last Line: And victory less than defeat.
Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish


A SONG OF FREEDOM, by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cavan of little lakes
Last Line: There is no fetter for the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty


A SPINNING SONG, by JOHN FRANCIS O'DONNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love to fight the saxon goes
Last Line: Wheel.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Spinning; Irish


A SUPPLICATION, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By our looks of mute despair
Last Line: Kyrie eleison.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


A VISION OF CONNAUGHT IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked entranced
Last Line: Of cahal mor of the wine-red hand!
Subject(s): Connaught, Ireland


A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lives of frail men are compar'd by the sages
Last Line: For indeed I have ever been true to the crown.
Subject(s): Booth, Sir George (1622-1684); Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Ireland; Travel; Coriate, Thomas; Irish; Journeys; Trips


A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ABBEY ASAROE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray, gray is abbey asaroe, by belashanny [ballyshannon] town
Last Line: Along the rough and crooked lane he crept from assaroe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Abbey Asaroe, Ireland


ADARE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweet adare, o lovely vale
Last Line: The sound of vernal joy is swelling.
Subject(s): Adare, Ireland


ADDRESS AND INVITATION TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To tell you the truth, dear j., I was sorry
Last Line: So come back—pray do—while the heather's in glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Elections; Ireland; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Irish


ADVENT, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's advent, and the woods renounce %your name
Last Line: To kick the days ahead %and lets them burn
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


AFTER AUGHRIM, by ARTHUR GERALD GEOGHEGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you remember long ago
Last Line: "for the green."
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


AFTER AUGHRIM, by EMILY LAWLESS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: She said, 'they gave me of their best'
Last Line: Yet still their love comes home to me
Subject(s): Ireland


AFTER DEATH, by FRANCES ISABEL PARNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall mine eyes behold the glory, o my country?
Last Line: "now mine eyes have seen her glory!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Parnell, Fanny
Variant Title(s): Ireland, Oh, My Country!;post Mortem
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


AFTERNOON OF THE SWIMMING PARTY, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tidal wave, two old guys
Last Line: Glitter without clothes
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


ALDFRID'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND, by FLANN FIONN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found in innisfail the fair
Subject(s): Ireland


AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian
Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown
Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns


AN APPEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spare her, o cruel england!
Last Line: They can die and go to him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): England; Faith; Ireland; Religion; English; Belief; Creed; Irish; Theology


AN APPEAL TO IRELAND, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sin of our race is upon us
Last Line: Through light and through love glorified.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The forward youth that would appear
Last Line: A power must it maintain.
Variant Title(s): Two Kings
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Ireland; Irish


AN IRISH FACE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Not her own sorrow only that place
Last Line: Grow what we dream upon.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Faces; Ireland; Irish


AN IRISH FANTASY, by JOHN FRANKLIN BLUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It so happens that I was born in cork'
Last Line: "it helps us think as we plant we shall reap."
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Trinity, The; Irish


AN IRISH HEADLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair head in antrim, long dark waves of
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ANDROMEDA, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They chained her fair young body to the cold and cruel stone
Last Line: O ireland! O my country! He comes to break thy chain!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ANGELINY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come right hyar, yo' angeliny
Last Line: Tink yo's irish too?
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Blacks; Ireland; Racism; Irish; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ANGLO-EIRE VIGNETTE, by PATRIC STEVENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Parting friends put me the query
Subject(s): Ireland


ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the master was calling the roll
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia


ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the master was calling the roll
Last Line: And raise their hands %as their names occurred
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia


ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time
Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Ireland; Irish


ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time
Last Line: I lie here and plot the agony of resurrection
Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Ireland


ARAN, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is earthed to his girl, one hand fastened
Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland; Love


ARAN, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aran of the many stags
Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland


ARBOUR HILL, by ROBERT EMMET    Poem Source                    
First Line: No rising column marks the spot
Last Line: These waft their fame to heaven
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


ARGAN MOR, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The danes rush around, around
Last Line: Went from the rath alive!
Subject(s): Argan Mor, Ireland


ARRANMORE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O arranmore, loved arranmore
Last Line: As sunny and as vain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Arranmore (island), Ireland


AS VANQUISHED ERIN, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As vanquished erin wept beside
Last Line: "the demon answer, ""never!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland


AS WELL HIM AS ANOTHER, by DANIEL J. LANGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is molly. I read the odd book
Last Line: Now that it's written, now that it's written down
Subject(s): Books; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Writing And Writers


AT CURRABWEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every night at currabwee
Last Line: And where the vardar loudly roars?
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Ireland; Irish


AT EASE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she died he married her sister
Last Line: And a ghost
Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Ghosts; Marriage; Supernatural


AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon is the train I used to take
Last Line: But I go home no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains


AT TRINITY COLLEGE, by MAUREEN OWEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In trinity's front square
Last Line: My projected major is monogamy
Subject(s): Ireland; Students, Foreign; Trinity College, Cambridge


ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: 6, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine
Last Line: America. Meat three times a day, they said. Slaves - you would %not be that
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Sullivan, Annie (1866-1936)


AUNT DYMPNA, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She had blue hair, a kerry blue dog
Last Line: Not even the name of the next cat
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


AVENGING AND BRIGHT, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of erin
Last Line: Revenge on a tyrant is sweetest of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


BATTLE OF OVIDSTOWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh mary, get my coat of green
Last Line: And set old ireland free
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: July the first of a morning fair
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690)


BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: King william said, 'I don't deserve'
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690)


BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bullet form the irish came
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690)


BATTLE OF VINEGAR HILL, by PATRICK F. KAVANAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Proud marched the british army, in scarlet and in gold
Last Line: And shed their blood in guilty strife for any king or crown
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks
Last Line: Fusillarde of question-marks
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks
Last Line: My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question-marks
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


BELFAST TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a girl from a dangerous town
Last Line: Because the town's too small
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland


BELFAST TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a girl from a dangerous town
Last Line: I dream of her either loved or killed %because the town's too small
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland


BESSIE GREY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If through killinchy's woods and vales
Last Line: Their mingled blood is flowing
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BEYOND HIS REACH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He looked at his children, all nine
Last Line: And loved his children like he loved question-marks.
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Love


BILLY BYRNE OF BALLYMANUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was in the year of ninety-nine, we had reason to complain
Last Line: Who stood upright for ireland's right and fought for liberty
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the shannon meets the sea
Last Line: Pity is born
Subject(s): Birth; Islands; Piety; Pity; Shannon (river), Ireland


BLAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't blame the city, she said
Last Line: And who do you blame, good sir, %for the poisoned irish sea?
Subject(s): Anger; Cities; Ireland


BLARNEY CASTLE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O blarney castle, my darlint!
Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father
Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland


BLARNEY STONE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a stone there
Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father
Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Stones


BLUE AMBITION, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She'd start novenas, %when you went off to barter
Last Line: Granda, standing in your dream
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BLUEBERRIES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Driving north, the haze
Last Line: In the blue cups of our hands
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BODENSTOWN, by MAEVE CAVANAGH MCDOWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lush grass hides forgotten graves
Last Line: Of him who slumbers there
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BOG MAGIC, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Granda cut turf with old gael grace
Last Line: A wizard willing deadweights into fuel
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have no prairies
Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps; Irish; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have no prairies
Last Line: The wet centre is bottomless
Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps


BOLD BELFAST SHOEMAKER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you true born irishmen, where-ever you may be
Last Line: I would make them fly before me like an arrow from a bow
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BOLD ROBERT EMMET, by THOMAS MAGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The struggle is over, the boys are defeated
Last Line: A hero I lived and a hero I'll die
Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions


BONNIE ANNIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing


BOOLAVOGUE, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At boolavogue, as the sun was setting
Last Line: The cause that called you may call to-morrow %in another fight for the green again
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BOYS OF CROGHAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You loyal-hearted irishmen I hope you will draw near
Last Line: For afeared like us he'd have you sent far from your native land
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BOYS OF WEXFORD, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In comes the captain's daughter, the captain of the yeos
Last Line: We're ready for another fight, and love our country still!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BRIGID, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ring, ring, ring, ring! Hammers fall
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint


BROADSTONE; NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath
Last Line: Here they are all perfectly resolved
Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland


BROSNA'S BANKS, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, yes, I idled many an hour
Last Line: Be green upon the brosna's banks.
Subject(s): Brosna (river), Ireland


BROWN DRIMIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh say, my brown drimin, thou silk of the kine"
Last Line: When the flint-hearted saxon they've chased far away
Subject(s): Cows;nationalism - Ireland


BUILDING WATCH AT COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As little sonnets labor to be wired
Last Line: While hard-hats whistling dixie take a leak
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BUT -, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He gets in touch only when he wants something
Last Line: But
Subject(s): Charm; Connemara, Ireland; Conversation; Crime And Criminals


BUTCHER'S DOZEN: A LESSON FOR THE OCTAVE OF WIDGERY, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went with anger at my heel
Last Line: In silent grief from hill to hill
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


BY MEMORY INSPIRED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: "by memory inspired, and love of country fired"
Last Line: Here's the memory of the heroes that are gone!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions;mourning; Bereavement


CAMPAIGN, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They had questioned him for hours. Who exactly was he?
Last Line: Drawing pints for strangers, his almost-perfect fingers flecked with scum
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


CARRICK-A-REDE, IRELAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dwelt amid the gloomy rocks
Last Line: A solitary man.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Irish; Loneliness


CARROWMORE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: All about carrowmore the lambs
Last Line: My belonging I %remember how cold I will be
Subject(s): Carrowmore (cemetery, Ireland)


CARROWMORE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a lonely road through bogland to the lake at carrowmore
Last Line: And the old enchantment lingers in the honey-heart of earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Carrowmore (cemetery, Ireland); Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish


CASSANDRA SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE IRISH FAMINE, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me that sharp knife, the butcher's cutlass
Last Line: Then die, begotten, eating reeds in ditches
Variant Title(s): Cassandra Speaks About The Irish Famin
Subject(s): Ireland


CASTLECONNEL, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Broad, but not deep, along his rock-chafed bed
Last Line: And sunny clouds are floating over all.
Subject(s): Castleconnel, Ireland


CATHAIR FHARGUS [FERGUS'S SEAT], by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With face turned upward to the changeful sky
Last Line: And thus I wait till resurrection-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Arran (island), Ireland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CATHAL'S FAREWELL TO THE RYE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shining sickle! Lie thou there
Last Line: Farewell, sickle! Welcome, sword!
Subject(s): Leinster, Ireland; O'connor, Cathal. King Of Connaught


CELT, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a voice clang like a brass kettle clanging
Last Line: Things that had been mere history before
Subject(s): History; Ireland; Irish Language


CELT IN ME, by KEITH WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a museum here I saw a celtic swordblade
Last Line: Their arms outstretched for me
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; History; Ireland; Museums


CELTS AND SAXONS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We hate the saxon and the dane
Last Line: We've hearts and nands for you.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Nationalism - Ireland


CHANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The change from yesterday!
Last Line: Jesus, the sea is fillin' the kitchen!'
Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Ireland


CHANGING STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our irish style is changing,' she said
Last Line: It seems we prefer steel kicks in the head %to stabs in the back.'
Subject(s): Betrayal; Ireland; Violence


CHIVALRY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I saw that ancient irish queen
Last Line: And I was weeping in the iron age.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Ireland; Irish


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 12. SAINT BRIDE'S EVE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: At twilight on a lonely cattle trail
Last Line: Her shadow falls, and wild hearts know its peace.
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Great Britain - History; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; English History


CHRISTMAS AND IRELAND, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden stars give warmthless fire
Subject(s): Ireland


CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the cat within us
Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs
Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel


CIRCLES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She seems to go round %in circles as narrow
Last Line: In hot air, like a child's %circle on a steamy pane
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


CITY OF CORK, by KEITH WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man is coughing outside out window over
Last Line: As this irish night rushes in upon me
Subject(s): Cork; Ireland; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages


CLANN CARTIE, by EGAN O'RAHILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is withered and my health is gone
Last Line: I'd ram thy lamentation down thy neck.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Egan; AodhagÁn Ó Rathaille
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish


CLARE COAST, by EMILY LAWLESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, cold island, we stand
Subject(s): Ireland


CLARE'S DRAGOONS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Vive la! For ireland's wrong
Last Line: And the shamrock shine for ever new!
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; War


CLEARING FOR A NEW HOUSE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long before the front-end loader
Last Line: And the ones we will keep
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think, or hope at least, the coast is clear
Last Line: But to make wits of fools is past your pow'r.
Subject(s): Fools; Ireland; Sparta, Greece; Idiots; Irish


CLONMACNOIS: A SHORT HISTORY, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's deserted except for the light
Last Line: Others see boats, yearning upwards, %sails filled with star-pearled air
Subject(s): Ciaran, Saint (516-549); Clonmacnoise, Ireland


CLOTHES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stranger looks at his clothes on the floor
Last Line: Go to your head
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Ireland; Masks; Nudity; Strangers


COAST SCENERY, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: These iron-rifted cliffs, that o'er the deep
Last Line: Its caverned base, the ocean's melancholy thunder?
Subject(s): Ireland; Landscape; Seashore; Irish; Beach; Coast; Shore


COCKY AND WEESHY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cocky robin hops out through the black bars
Last Line: Hops back in again
Subject(s): Birds; Flies; Ireland


COLIN AND LUCY, by THOMAS TICKELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of leinster, famed for maidens fair
Last Line: And fear to meet him there.
Subject(s): Leinster, Ireland


COLUMCILLE'S GREETING TO IRELAND, by COLUMCILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Delightful to be on the hill of howth
Alternate Author Name(s): Columba
Subject(s): Ireland


CONNACHTMAN, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's my fear that my wake won't be quiet
Last Line: That the wind that lifts when the sails are lossed, %will never lift my heart
Subject(s): Ireland


CONNEMARA, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soft rain is falling
Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R.
Subject(s): Connemara, Ireland


COOLE PARK, 1929, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I meditate upon a swallow's flight
Last Line: A moment's memory to that laurelled head
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Coole, Ireland


COOLE PARK, 1929, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I meditate upon a swallow's flight
Last Line: A moment's memory to that laurelled head
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Coole, Ireland


CORMACAN SINGS, by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cormacan sings -- %there broods a calm upon the brow of kings
Last Line: See that thou com'st no more where warriors sup'
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Cormacan An Eigeas (10th Century); Ireland


CORRYMEELA, by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over here in england I'm helpin' wi' the hay
Last Line: Sweet corrymela, an' the same soft rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Moira
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


COWS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Knee deep in may with grassy june before them
Last Line: Pleasure: led dimly off, their only madness, flies
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


COWS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Cows; Ireland; Irish


CREMONA, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grenadiers of austria are proper men and tall
Last Line: "for the evening air is chilly in cremona."
Subject(s): Cremona, Battle Of (1702); Ireland; Irish


CRICKETS WENT ON SINGING, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the night you told me
Last Line: Your smile half-crazed before you forgot
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses


CROMWELL, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the celebrated carved misericords
Last Line: And just outside the door %the swords
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; War


CROPPIES LIE DOWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We soldiers of erin, so proud of the name
Last Line: Down, down, down, croppies lie down
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


CROPPY BOY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was early, early, all in the spring
Last Line: Just drop a tear for the croppy boy
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


CROSSING THE BLACKWATER, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We stood so steady
Last Line: Inisfail, for you!
Subject(s): Blackwater (river), Ireland


CYCLE, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, among familiar gulls and curlews
Last Line: The effort of limbs pounding the air in panic
Subject(s): Death; Dublin Bay, Ireland; Winter


DAD'S ACCORDION, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dad, no matter how you played it to your daughter
Last Line: Because it frightened you,' was all you said
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


DAFFODIL DAYS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bought the daffodils
Last Line: Do not bloom for me, I ask, %do not bloom
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


DARK MARGARET, by JOHN FISHER MURRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sit by the fire
Last Line: With a welcome home to mary, you love best.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O my dark rosaleen
Last Line: My dark rosaleen!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel


DARKEST LEAVES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I recall the morning crying awake
Last Line: In & out of rooms, & dreams, %through the darkest leaves
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


DAWN ON THE IRISH COAST, by JOHN LOCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Th' anam tho' diah! But there it is
Subject(s): Dawn; Ireland


DAY IN IRELAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four sharp scythes sweeping - in concert keeping
Subject(s): Ireland


DE GROVES OF DE POOL, by RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now de war, dearest nancy, is ended
Last Line: Dat lives in de groves of de pool
Alternate Author Name(s): Milliken, Richard Alfred
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


DEAN'S REASONS FOR NOT BUILDING AT DRAPIER'S HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not build on yonder mount
Last Line: To serve a friend against his will
Subject(s): Drapier's Hill, Ireland


DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY! IN DARKNESS I FOUND THEE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till touch'd by some hand less unworthy than mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Harps


DEDICATION, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I speak with a proud tongue of the people
Variant Title(s): Slainthe
Subject(s): Ireland


DEIRDRE IS DEAD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps
Last Line: Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Death; Deirdre; Drowning; Grief; Wind; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DEIRDRE'S LAMENT FOR THE SONS OF USNACH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lions of the hill are gone
Last Line: "dig the grave and make it ready, / lay me on my true love's body"
Subject(s): Deirdre;red Branch Knights (ireland)


DESCRIPTION OF AN IRISH FEAST, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'rourk's noble fare
Last Line: Or a kick on the arse
Subject(s): Feasts; Ireland


DESERTED HOUSE, COUNTY GALWAY, by JOHN DREXEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: These, that have fallen into wildness
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Houses, Deserted


DEVENISH, by JOHN READE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas year since I had heard the name
Last Line: Of eventide fades out at night.
Subject(s): Devenish (island), Ireland


DIRGE OF RORY O'MORE; 1642, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the sea-saddened valley at evening's decline
Last Line: Rolls the drige of thy last and thy bravest--o'more!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'more, Rory (1620-1652)


DISAPPEARANCES IN THE GUARDED SECTOR, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we stop where you lived, the house
Last Line: We will both come back
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland


DISPOSSESSED POET, by MONK GIBBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am from ireland, %the sad country
Subject(s): Ireland


DOCKER, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There, in the corner, staring at his drink
Subject(s): Hate; Religious Discrimination; Catholics; Ireland


DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys


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


DONEGORE HILL, by JAMES ORR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dew draps wet the fiels o' braird
Last Line: Will act like donegore men %on any day
Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Ballycarry
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


DRAPIER'S HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We give the world to understand
Last Line: And drapier's vie with cooper's hill.
Subject(s): Drapier's Hill, Ireland


DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth
Last Line: Fate across all them rolls
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry And Poets


DREAM SONGS: 292, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The irish sky is raining, the irish winds are high
Last Line: & the last voice in drawled; 'henry? A brick'
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Nationalism - Ireland


DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world
Last Line: Depressed, down on my knees
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor And Laborers; Prayer


DRIMIN DONN DILIS (THE DEAR BROWN COW), by JOHN WALSH (1835-1881)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Drimin donn dilis! The landlord has come
Last Line: With a blight on his life, and a brand on his brow.
Subject(s): Cows; Ireland - Famine


DRUNKEN LADIES, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was one drunken lady in dublin
Last Line: There was one drunken lady in spain
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dublin, Ireland; Travel; Women


DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey brick upon brick
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Variant Title(s): From The Closing Album
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland


DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey brick upon brick
Last Line: Grey stone, grey water, %and brick upon grey brick
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Variant Title(s): From The Closing Albu
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland


DUBLIN BAY, by EWART MILNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not now expecting to live forever
Subject(s): Dublin Bay, Ireland


DUBLIN BAY, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, bay of dublin, how my heart you're troublin'
Last Line: Heav'n knows how dear my poor home was to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady
Subject(s): Dublin Bay, Ireland


DUBLINESQUE, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down stucco sidestreets,
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Funerals; Burials


DUHALLOW, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away from my friends
Last Line: Quite as old as duhallow!
Subject(s): Duhallow, Ireland


DUNLAVIN GREEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the year of seventeen ninety-eight
Last Line: For the lose of his own dear comrades who died on the green
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


DYING SOLDIER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother eire I have walked with you
Last Line: I know, will seek from god my rest
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


EASTER 1916, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have met them at close of day
Last Line: A terrible beauty is born.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy


EASTER WEEK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who fears to speak of easter week
Subject(s): Ireland


ECLIPSE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above us the table of night
Last Line: On the night of your thirtieth year
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


EDWARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What plaintive sounds strike on my ear!
Last Line: Revenge! Revenge! For edward's kill'd
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


EILEEN AROON, by THOMAS FURLONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll love thee evermore
Last Line: Eileen a roon!
Subject(s): Mayo (county), Ireland


EILEEN AROON, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When like the early rose
Last Line: Eileen aroon!
Subject(s): Mayo (county), Ireland


ELLEN OF ROSNA HALL, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You remember ellen, our hamlet's pride
Last Line: Shines pure as it did in the lowly shed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Rosna Hall, Ireland


EMMELINE TALBOT; A BALLAD OF THE PALE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a september day
Last Line: Girt by his clan!
Subject(s): Glenismole, Ireland


EN PASSANT, by EDITH COURTENAY BABBITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dozen pencils, yellow, green, and blue
Last Line: "the saints befriend you, lady!"" ""and you, sir."
Subject(s): Ireland; Peddlers & Peddling; Irish


EPILOGUE TO A PLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WEAVERS IN IRELAND, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who dares affirm this is no pious age
Last Line: The poet's wit, than in the player's dressing
Subject(s): Ireland; Weavers And Weaving


ERIN [EIRE], by WILLIAM DRENNAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When erin [eire] first rose from the dark-swelling flood
Last Line: Rise -- arch of the ocean, and queen of the west!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


ERIN'S DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor erin's daughter cross'd the main
Last Line: In desolate despair
Subject(s): Despair; Ireland - Famine


ERIN'S FLAG, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unroll erin's flag! Fling its folds to the breeze!
Last Line: "they'll sail to the music of ""home, sweet home!"
Subject(s): Exiles; Flags - Ireland


ERIN, O ERIN!, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the bright lamp that shone in kildare's holy fane
Last Line: And the hope that lived through it shall blossom at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Erin, Oh Erin
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


EXILE OF ERIN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came to the beach a poor exile of erin
Last Line: Erin mavourneen, erin go bragh!
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


EXILE! EXILE!, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the room breathes out its grief
Subject(s): Ireland; United States; Irish; America


EXTEMPORE, by JOHN ST. LEDGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou little tory, why the jest
Last Line: The whiteness of the rebel rose.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Politics & Government


FACING NORTH, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is little to do with me, I thought, waiting
Last Line: There was no soundness in her, suppurating %bruises, sores and wounds. My hands are full of blood
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Tourists; Travel


FAG AN BEALAGH, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope no more for fatherland
Last Line: Foes of freedom, 'fag an bealagh!'
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


FAIR HILLS OF EIRE, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear the love of my heart to my land far away
Subject(s): Ireland


FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying
Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died.
Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


FAREWELL TO IRELAND, by COLUMCILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas for the voyage, o high king of heaven
Last Line: Thou waterful land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Columba
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost
Last Line: This underpass is endless
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day


FATHER MURPHY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you warriors and renowned nobles
Last Line: For every man has a pike and gun
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


FATHER TO SON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crooked? He was so crooked, son
Last Line: He'd shit a corkscrew
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Fathers And Sons; Ireland


FATHER, WHEN I WAS SIX, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind flung down the firs that stood on tiptoe
Last Line: The moonlight anchored in your grasp
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time
Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers


FEAGH M'HUGH, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feagh m'hugh of the mountain
Last Line: And the feats of his hard-riding men?
Subject(s): Kilmantan, Ireland


FEAR OF IRISH SONS, by PAUL T. HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have this notion of you: irish
Last Line: I fear of my first son
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons


FINGER LAKES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stand in the shower
Last Line: And towel each other before it gets cold
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We had never grasped hands
Last Line: (which after all, was thicker than water)
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FIRST HOUR, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This will never happen to me
Last Line: My shaky, learning hands
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


FLYING TO IRELAND, AGAIN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's like looking down on a quilt
Last Line: And left it behind in belclare
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FOG, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our hospital sits on a rise
Last Line: On the perfect white-out of a morning
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FOGGY DEW, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A splendid place is london
Last Line: And I'd travel home to ireland and the foggy dew
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Homesickness; Ireland


FONTENOY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice, at the huts of fontenoy, the english column failed
Last Line: Fought and won!
Variant Title(s): Battle Of Fontenoy
Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745) (1745); Ireland - Rebellions


FONTENOY, 1745: 1. BEFORE THE BATTLE: NIGHT, by EMILY LAWLESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, bad the march, the weary march, beneath these alien skies
Last Line: For faith, and fame, and honour, and the ruined hearthes of clare.
Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty


FONTENOY, 1745: 2. AFTER THE BATTLE, EARLY DAWN, CLARE COAST, by EMILY LAWLESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary mother, shield us! Say, what men are ye
Last Line: "home to corca bascinn, in the morning light."
Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty


FOR THE OLD YEATS, by JAMES SCHEVILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great ripping goes on in all minds
Last Line: To the bawdy laughter of the world
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


FORESHADOWINGS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oremus! Oremus! Look down on us, father
Last Line: Will the crown, and the throne, and the palm-branch be given.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


FORGET NOT THE FIELD, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget not the field where they perish'd
Last Line: On liberty's ruins to fame!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions


FROM MY B&B LIGHTHOUSE ON CLARE ISLAND, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mostly when I think of grainne uaile
Last Line: Looking lonely as one graffito
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience
Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland


FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience
Last Line: But operated independently %and no ambassador would ever be relieved
Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland


FUN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A gang of boys and girls, loving fun
Last Line: One girl says, 'it's like a fuckin' video.'
Subject(s): Children; Ireland; Violence


FUNCHEON WOODS, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark woods of funcheon! Treading far
Last Line: When autumn-leaves are falling!
Subject(s): Funcheon Woods, Ireland


FUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Corruption rhymes with dublin
Last Line: Relax. Enjoy the funny, stinking play.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dublin, Ireland


GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing
Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language


GALWAY, by MARY DEVENPORT O'NEILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know a town tormented by the sea
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland


GALWAY BAY, by GEORGE BARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the gulls' hysteria above me
Last Line: Drowned nocturnally breast.
Subject(s): Galway Bay. Ireland


GALWAY TRAIN, by KEVIN BOWEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the dublin station, %the high rise and fall orf arms
Last Line: Corners of the page folding in
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Railroads


GENERAL MUNROE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is george campbell. At the age of eighteen
Last Line: Brave emmet, fitzgerald, and general munroe
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


GENERAL WONDER IN OUR LAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In one great general peal
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly
Last Line: Too cheap a bargain: the name, the work or the soul: glass beads are the trade for savages
Subject(s): Death; Ireland


GIGGLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If this coastal erosion continues
Last Line: Used to be
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erosion; Ruins; Tourists


GLANDORE, by ?? MURRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though I have forsaken long
Last Line: Among the scenes of sweet glandore!
Subject(s): Glandore, Ireland


GLASHEN-GLORA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis sweet in midnight solitude
Last Line: That's breathed o'er glashen-glora!
Subject(s): "glashen-glora (river), Ireland;


GLENGARIFF, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered at eve by glengariff's sweet water
Last Line: When the last of our foemen is vanquished and fled!
Subject(s): Glengariff, Ireland


GLENGARIFF, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gazing from each low bulwark of this bridge
Last Line: Reveals new mountains as it floats away.
Subject(s): Glengariff, Ireland


GLORIOUS TWELFTH, by ROBERT GREACEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You will remember that the twelfth was always dry
Subject(s): Ireland


GOODBYE, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goodbye to tree and tower
Last Line: My last goodbye.
Subject(s): Farewell; Ireland; Parting; Irish


GOUGAUNE BARRA, by JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLANAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a green island in lone gougaune barra
Last Line: Where the mist and the rain o'er their beauty were creeping!
Alternate Author Name(s): Callanan, James Joseph
Subject(s): Gougaune Barra (lake), Ireland


GOUGAUNE BARRA, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not beauty which men gaze on with a smile
Last Line: Clasps his cold mother's breast when life is gone.
Subject(s): Gougaune Barra (lake), Ireland


GRACE O'MALY, by SAMUEL FERGUSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She left the closed-aired land of trees
Last Line: Such choosing, we commend her.
Subject(s): Clare (island), Ireland


GREAT HUNGER: 1, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
Last Line: Be easy, october. No cackle hen, horse neigh, tree sough, duck quack
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Variant Title(s): The Great Hunge
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine


GROWING UP, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I no longer had to stand on chairs
Last Line: Everything grew up but me
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


GUMMING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I asked malachy brandon, eighty - two
Last Line: And don't give a fuck
Subject(s): Aging; Apathy; Dublin, Ireland; Love


HANDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close to boiling water spilled
Last Line: Burning now
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fire; Hands


HANGOVER MASS, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the sins of the flesh, that reprobate
Last Line: Over sidewalk cracks' imaginary snakes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life - Ireland; Sin


HARBOR, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think if I lay dying in some land
Subject(s): Harbors; Ireland


HAVE WE DONE WELL FOR IRELAND?, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O country, writhing in thy chain
Last Line: To soothe thee -- fated ireland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


HAVE YE COUNTED THE COST?, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will our leaders faint and falter
Last Line: Then, may god defend the right!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


HAWK, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He might have been carved, except I saw him
Last Line: As evening spread its red tail on the water
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


HEART, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the heart of dublin, not even the long
Last Line: Can undo the blackbird's song
Subject(s): Ambulances; Birds; Dublin, Ireland; Fire


HEARTBEAT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The heartbeat of a lethal irish joy
Last Line: I mock I mock till I destroy
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Ireland


HELEN'S TOWER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hears of helen's tower, may dream
Last Line: When all the morning-stars together sang.
Subject(s): Ireland; Sheridan, Helen Selina (1807-1867); Irish; Dufferin, Lady; Gifford, Lady


HELEN'S TOWER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen's tower, here I stand
Last Line: In earth's recurring paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Ireland; Sheridan, Helen Selina (1807-1867); Irish; Dufferin, Lady; Gifford, Lady


HENRY JOY MCCRACKEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was on the belfast mountains I heard a maid complain
Last Line: The rebel wind shrieks freedom above her weary head
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


HER FRUITFUL SOIL FOR EVER TEEMS WITH WEALTH, by DONATUS+(2)    Poem Source                    
Last Line: An island worthy of its pious race, %in war triumphant, and unmatched in peace
Subject(s): Ireland


HER SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly
Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed.
Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs


HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A light is burning late / in this georgian dublin street
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Love - Erotic


HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A light is burning late %in this georgian dublin street
Last Line: Their hooves through the moonlight
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erotic Love


HERITAGE, by MARIE BLAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why should the mountains confuse me with rapture?
Last Line: The green hills of ireland call me again!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn
Last Line: That call across the world to me.
Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War


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


HOME THOUGHTS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If will had wings / how fast I'd flee
Last Line: Where my own love dwells.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Ireland; Irish


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


HORSE'S GRAVE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember bob-horse pulling
Last Line: And a gap where the whins grew high
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their pollen cleansed the air
Last Line: That wove such a spell
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


HOSPITALITY IN ANCIENT IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh king of stars! / whether my house be dark
Last Line: "but jesus, mary's son"
Subject(s): Hospitality;ireland; Irish


HOUSES OFF FRANCIS STREET, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have been four years away %from an irish autumn
Last Line: And the quiet smoke begins %to hide them from the stars
Subject(s): Absence; Forgetfulness; Ireland


HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by CHARLES O'FLAHERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! 't was dermot o'nowlan mcfigg
Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland


HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To donnybrook steer, all you sons of
Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland


HY-BRASIL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter,' said the ancient father, pausing by the evening sea
Last Line: In the sight of eden floating -- floating on the sapphire sea!
Subject(s): Hy-brasail (island), Ireland


I AM OF IRELAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dance with me in ireland
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland


I GIVE MY HEART TO THEE, O MOTHERLAND, by STANDISH JAMES O'GRADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I give my heart to thee, ideal land!
Subject(s): Nationalism – Ireland


I GIVE MY HEART TO THEE, O MOTHERLAND, by STANDISH JAMES O'GRADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now memory, false, spendthrift memory
Last Line: Like pilgrims, wander on thy haunted shore.
Variant Title(s): An Ancient Tale [or, Rhyme
Subject(s): Bray, Ireland


I WISH I WAS BY THAT DIM LAKE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Within their current turns to stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Superstition


I'M IRISH ON THE ONE SIDE, SCOTTISH ON THE OTHER, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wrap up the rotgut'
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day


IF EVER YOU GO TO DUBLIN TOWN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet he lived happily %I tell you
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland


IMAGE OF IRELANDE, SELS., by JOHN DERRICKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: No table there is spread
Last Line: They grow through daily exercise %to all iniquity
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel


IN CLONMEL PARISH CHURCHYARD; AT THE GRAVE OF CHARLES WOLFE, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the graves were many, we looked for one
Last Line: In the churchyard of clonmel?
Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Clonmel, Ireland; Graveyards


IN IRELAND: 1. ON INISHMAAN: ISLES OF ARAN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the twilight of the year
Last Line: The grey sea's, in its low sighing.
Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland


IN IRELAND: 2. BY THE POOL AT THE THIRD ROSES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the sighing of the reeds
Last Line: Is crying to come back again?
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IN IRELAND: 3. BY LOUGH-NA-GAR: GREEN LIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of the world is of gold
Last Line: That is old as the earth is old.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IN IRELAND: 4. BY LOUGH-NA-GAR: RAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into a land of wandering rain
Last Line: A voice crying from far away.
Subject(s): Ireland; Rain; Irish


IN IRELAND: 5. IN THE WOOD OF FINVARA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears
Last Line: And the peace that is not in the world has flown to me.
Subject(s): Forests; Ireland; Woods; Irish


IN MEMORY OF CONSTANCE MARKIEWICZ, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The kind of woman that men poets
Last Line: And shrill, but had a longer funeral %procession than most of us will have
Subject(s): Connolly, James (1868-1916); Ireland - Rebellions; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916)


IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill?
Last Line: Blessed is the night that has no glowworm
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries; Graveyards


IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill?
Last Line: For probably all the same things will be born and be beautiful again, but blessed is the night that
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries


IN THE SEVEN WOODS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard the pigeons of the seven woods
Last Line: A cloudy quiver over parc-na-lee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Coole, Ireland


IN THE YEARS OF SARSFIELD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I were over the curlew mountains
Last Line: "^2^ macaulay's ""history of england,"" ch. Xvii."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan; War; Irish


INDEPENDENT IRISH PARLIAMENT, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dazzling gleam of evanescent glory
Last Line: The barren strand of slavery's shore was seen
Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


INHERITING THE GIFT OF BLARNEY, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother kissed the inconvenient stone
Last Line: And say death's the biggest %load of blarney there is
Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Death; Ireland


INIS FAL, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now may we turn aside and dry our tears!
Last Line: Remains to us of all that was our own.
Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish


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


INTERCESSORS, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our nuns come out to shop in the afternoon
Last Line: When britain took the garrisons away
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


INVOCATION TO IRELAND, by AMERGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I invoke the land of ireland
Subject(s): Ireland


IRELAND, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland which the sea refuses
Last Line: Imitates above all the irish
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets


IRELAND, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland, o ireland! Centre of my longings
Last Line: Keep me in remembrance, long leagues apart.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland never was contented
Last Line: Emeralds big as half the county.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


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


IRELAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire in her ashes ireland feels
Last Line: When solid with high heart stand these.
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Irish


IRELAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the dream of a god
Last Line: I have left you at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remove me from this land of slaves
Last Line: Townshend's cast page or walpole's groom
Subject(s): Ireland


IRELAND (1847), by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are dying! They are dying! Where the golden corn is growing
Last Line: Health is blowing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Patriotism; Liberty


IRELAND - 1915, by BRUCE PORTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not sleep the night
Last Line: You are grown old with dreaming.
Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish


IRELAND WEEPING, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON (1808-1870)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Utmost island of europe, loveliest land
Last Line: Foxes stretched without breath, and their blood humming on the ground!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND WITH EMILY, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bells are booming down the bohreens
Last Line: Sings it own seablown te deum, %in and out the slipping slates
Subject(s): Ireland


IRELAND'S VENGEANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is thy day, thy day of all the years
Last Line: Vengeance, to love them. Be that vengeance thine!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, 1847, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woes of ireland are too deep for verse
Last Line: Give back its suffe'rings to the sphere of song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, IRELAND, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down thy valleys, ireland, ireland
Last Line: Ireland, ireland, green and sad.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND, MOTHER OF PRIESTS, by SHANE LESLIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fishwife sits by the side
Subject(s): Ireland


IRELAND: INVOCATION, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On your keening waters like gray eyes tear-misted
Last Line: Ireland!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


IRELAND; A SEASIDE PORTRAIT, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A great, still shape, alone
Last Line: "fields without walls that all the people own!"
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


IRELAND; WRITTEN FOR THE ART AUTOGRAPH DURING IRISH FAMINE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heartsome ireland, winsome ireland
Last Line: Baltimore, 1880.
Subject(s): Famine; Ireland; Irish


IRISH, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and mother were irish
Last Line: For it is irish, too.
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; Irish


IRISH 'PATRIOTS'; TO WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thank you these men seek truly ireland's ease
Last Line: It is expedient that they strut and strive!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


IRISH DANCER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come from ireland
Subject(s): Ireland


IRISH HAIKU, by GABY ROUGHNEEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smell of the winter is in it
Last Line: It brushed against me, and I caught it
Subject(s): Ireland


IRISH HEADLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair head in antrim, long dark waves of
Subject(s): Ireland


IRISH INTERIOR, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman sits and spins. She makes no sound
Subject(s): Spinning; Ireland; Irish


ISLAND, by SEAN JENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This island is the world's end
Subject(s): Ireland


JACK RUSSELL, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When uncle peter %went abroad
Last Line: No kinder eyes, %the whitest coat of bones
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


JUST ANOTHER DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear dublin, you sleep tonight in a bed
Last Line: Will the good word be always late?
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Gossip; Hate; History


JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am your little grandmother
Last Line: And fields to liverpool
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents


KATE KEARNEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o, should you e'er meet with kate kearney"
Last Line: For fatal's the breath of kate kearney!
Subject(s): "killarney (lakes), Ireland;


KATE KEARNY, by SADY MORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Did you ne'er hear of kate kearney?
Last Line: Must die by the breath of kate kearney.
Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland


KATE OF ARAGLEN, by DENNY LANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When first I saw thee, kate
Last Line: Mo cailin ruadh!
Subject(s): Arraglen, Ireland


KATHALEEN NY-HOULAHAN (IRELAND); A JACOBITE RELIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "long they pine in weary woe, the nobles of our land"
Last Line: May he show forth his might in saving kathleen ny-houlahan
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


KEENE; OR, LAMENT OF AN IRISH MOTHER OVER HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkly the cloud of night comes rolling on
Last Line: Silent and dark!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Ireland; Lament; Mothers & Sons; Irish


KELLY OF KILLANNE, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's the news? What's the news? O my bold shelmalier
Last Line: Glory o! To mount leinster's own darling and pride-- %dauntless kelly, the boy from killanne!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


KILCOLEMAN CASTLE, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No sound of life was coming
Last Line: On his head long, long ago!
Subject(s): Kilcoleman Castle, Ireland


KILLARY, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all her brothers in the house
Last Line: "we shall meet no more by killary!"
Subject(s): Love; Ireland


KILLYNOOGAN, by JOHN READE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Killynoogan, - hallowed name
Last Line: Till it touches broad lough erne.
Subject(s): Killynoogan, Ireland


KILMALLOCK, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What ruined shapes of feudal pomp are there
Last Line: The charnel of yon desecrated fane!
Subject(s): Kilmallock, Ireland


KINCORA, by MACLIAG    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, where, kincora! Is brian the great?
Last Line: Dead, o kinkora!
Variant Title(s): Kincora
Subject(s): Brian Boru, King Of Ireland (941-1014); Kinkora (palace), Ireland


KING CORMAC'S CROWN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Prince cormac sheathed his sharpest sword
Last Line: Sate dead at the his banquet board!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


KING MALACHY AND THE POET M'COISI, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King malachy, shorn of crown and renown
Last Line: And the wonders wrought by st. Patrick's prayer.
Subject(s): Tara, Ireland


KINSALE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What man can stand amid a place of tombs
Last Line: Thy corner-stone forsook the mother-rock!
Subject(s): Kinsale, Ireland


KITTY OF COLERAINE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping
Last Line: The devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine
Subject(s): "coleraine, Ireland;


KITTY OF COLERAINE, by EDWARD LYSAGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping
Last Line: The devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine.
Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Women


KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping
Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings


KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping
Last Line: For very soon after poor kitty's disaster %the devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine
Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings


KITTY OF KILLARNEY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the lakes of killarney
Last Line: "achushla, why are you so mean?"
Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland


LADY ACHESON WEARY OF THE DEAN, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dean would visit market hill
Last Line: Of this insulting tyrant dean!
Variant Title(s): Dean Swift At Sir Arthur Acheson's, In The North Of Ireland
Subject(s): Market Hill, Ireland


LADY DAY IN IREAND, by PATRICK JOSEPH CARROLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the long august day, mantled blue with a sky
Subject(s): Ireland


LAMENT FOR BANBA, by EGAN O'RAHILLY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O my land! O my love!
Last Line: James clarence mangan.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Egan; AodhagÁn Ó Rathaille
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


LAMENT FOR GRATTAN, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the harp then be silent, when he who first gave
Last Line: Of the wisest, the bravest, the best of mankind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


LAMENT FOR IRELAND, by SHEMUS CARTAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not know of anything under the sky
Subject(s): Ireland


LAMENT FOR THE MILESIANS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Proud were the chieftains of green inis-fail
Last Line: As truagh gan oidhir 'n-a bh-farradh!
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


LAMENT FOR THE TYRONIAN AND TYRCONNELLIAN PRINCES BURIED AT ROME, by OWEN ROE MAC AN BHAIRD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O woman of the piercing wail
Last Line: The blood of conn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Owen Roe Mac Ward
Subject(s): Escapes; Ireland; Lament; O'donnell, Rory (1575-1608); Fugitives; Irish


LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting on the stile, mary
Last Line: When first you were my bride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady
Variant Title(s): The Irish Immigrant
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Mourning; Dead, The; Irish; Bereavement


LAMENT OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH EXILE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I want to win me hame
Last Line: Ancient history began.
Subject(s): Exiles; Ireland; Lament; Irish


LAMENTATIONS OF PATRICK BRADY, OR, THE HEROES OF NINETY-EIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye true born heroes I hope you will now lend an ear
Last Line: You'll pray for pat brady, the hero of '98
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


LAST FRIENDS, by FRANCES BROWNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to my country, but not with the hope
Last Line: For the hills of my country remember it yet!
Subject(s): Friendship; Homecoming; Ireland


LAST GALWAY HOOKER, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the corrib river chops through the claddagh
Last Line: May I handle her well down tomorrow's sea-road
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Prostitution


LATE WINTER ON CAPE COD, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blackbirds this evening, %so many of them massing
Last Line: A thousandfold and black-leafed, %the red-wings pause
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


LAY OF THE [IRISH] FAMINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hush! Hear you how the night wind keens around the craggy rock?
Subject(s): Ireland


LEAPING FIRE; I.M. BRIGID MONTAGUE (1876-1966), by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old lady, I now celebrate
Last Line: A hollow note
Subject(s): Ireland; Women


LEINSTER, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I try to knead and spin, but my life is low the while
Last Line: The foolishness is on me, and the wild tears fall!
Variant Title(s): Irish Peasant Song
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


LEITRIM WOMAN, by JOHN LYLE DONAGHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: People of ireland- I am an old woman
Subject(s): Ireland


LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the long-faded glories they cover
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland – History


LIBERTY TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the year of '93
Last Line: Would be the cry of every nation
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


LIKE DOLMENS ROUND MY CHILDHOOD, THE OLD PEOPLE, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into that dark permanence of ancient forms
Subject(s): Ireland


LIMERICK IS BEAUTIFUL, by DION BOUCICAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner
Subject(s): Limerick, Ireland


LINES WRITTEN FOR THE ALBUM AT ROSANNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, lighty tread through these deep chestnut bowers
Last Line: A spell to raise, to chasten, and to melt!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Rosanna, Ireland


LISMORE, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A meeting of bright streams and valleys green
Last Line: Should set, dishonored, in a bloody sea!
Subject(s): Lismore, Ireland


LITERARY DUBLIN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Damn near where'er you look, a writer's ghost
Last Line: And daedalus's execration hung %above the city like a blind man's blessing
Subject(s): Behan, Brendan (1923-1964); Dramatists; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Plays And Playwrights; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)


LOCH INA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a lake where the cool waves break
Last Line: "ere I would leave thee, loved loch-ine"
Subject(s): "lough Ina [inagh] (lake), Ireland;


LOUD SHOUT THE FLAMING TONGUES OF WAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud shout the flaming tongues of war
Last Line: Shall we unite in servitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; War; Irish


LOUGH BRAY, by ROSE KAVANAGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: A little lonely moorland lake
Last Line: A true, sweet, solemn memory.
Subject(s): Bray, Ireland


LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD, by KATHY CALLAWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of family, ulster irish
Last Line: The old fishline unreeling again
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Ulster, Ireland


MAMMOGRAPHY: A WORD WITH GRANDMA'S GHOST, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They tell me I'm high-risk too
Last Line: The land raised like an irish fist
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses


MAN FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE, by FLORENCE WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into our townlan', on a night of snow
Last Line: Was the man from god-knows-where!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MARIE NANGLE; OR, THE SEVEN SISTERS OF NAVAN; A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, there were sisters, sisters seven
Last Line: "what aileth me, a novice nun?"
Subject(s): Navan, Ireland; Nuns


MAYO, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a wide sea flowing and a deep river going
Last Line: Over your shining plains, mayo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Mayo (county), Ireland; Sea; Travel; Irish; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


ME AND YOU, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were you in killala
Last Line: That was on croagh patrick
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns
Last Line: Consider most to magnify, or to bless, %but take our greatness with our bitterness?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): My House
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower
Last Line: To exalt a lonely mind, %befitting emblems of adversity
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): My Hous
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board
Last Line: Had waking wits; it seemed %juno's peacock screamed
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind
Last Line: These stones remain their monument and mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An affable irregular, / a heavily built falstaffian man
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An affable irregular, %a heavily built falstaffian man
Last Line: And turn towards my chamber, caught %in the cold snows of a dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bees build in the crevices
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bees build in the crevices
Last Line: Come build in the empty house of the stare
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions; Masonic Societies


MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone
Last Line: Suffice the ageing man as once the growing boy
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions


MEET ME AT THE ELEPHANT, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buffered by his cap and coat
Last Line: On the way to natural history
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MEMORY OF THE IRISH DEAD, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Who fears to speak of ninety-eight?
Last Line: Like those of ninety-eight!
Variant Title(s): The Men Of 'ninety-eight;the Memory Of The Dead
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions; Patriotism; Liberty; Irish


MEN OF NINETY-EIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hundred years have passed and gone since irishmen, they stood
Last Line: Those brave united irishmen who died in ninety-eight
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MESSAGE FROM BELFAST FOR JUSTICE AND GERRY ADAMS, by JUNE JORDAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Adams, Gerry (b. 1948); Belfast, Northern Ireland


MICHAEL BOYLAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you worthy members, your attention now I pray
Last Line: Michael boylan is my name, and all good christians pray for me
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MICHAEL DWYER (1), by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At length brave michael dwyer and his undaunted men
Last Line: For those, his gallant comrades, which died in wild immal
Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MICHAEL DWYER (2), by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soldiers searched the valley, and towards the dawn of day
Last Line: For these, his gallant comrades, which died in wild immal
Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MICHELANGELO, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father climbed ladders
Last Line: All he knew was a towel- %he could mend the skies
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MINUETTE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon shines
Last Line: Take carelessly, and carelessly.
Variant Title(s): On The Freedom Of Ireland
Subject(s): Nationalism - 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


MIRACLES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water for guinness
Last Line: You're walking on air
Subject(s): Kildare, Ireland; Miracles; Water


MITCHELSTOWN CAVERNS, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grimly it frowned when first with shuddering mind
Last Line: Rich with elysian wealth and splendor ever new.
Subject(s): Mitchelstown, Ireland


MO CRAOIBHIN CNO (MY CLUSTER OF NUTS - MY BROWN-HAIRED GIRL), by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sword of light hath pierced the dark, our eyes have seen the star
Last Line: Mo craoibhin cno!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


MOIRA'S KEENING, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mountains of erin
Last Line: O boy of mine! Dead.
Subject(s): Sons; World War I - Ireland


MOLLY ASTHORE, by SAMUEL FERGUSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mary dear! O mary fair!
Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland


MOLLY ASTHORE, by GEORGE OGLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As down by banna's banks I strayed, one evening in may
Last Line: Ah, gramachree, ma colleen oge, me molly asthore!
Variant Title(s): Maillign Mo Stoir
Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland


MOLLY ASTORE, by THOMAS FURLONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mary dear! Bright peerless flower
Last Line: My mary dear, with thee!
Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland


MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When morag of the glen was fey
Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MOTHER IRELAND, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


MOUNTAIN MEN, by WILLIAM ROONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did you mark e'er a smoke-drift go sailing
Last Line: We'll keep the old cause living still
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


MOVING: 1, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream up wan excuses like dumb fate
Last Line: I leave four walls, loud echoes, and my tub
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MOVING: 2, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To move to greener pastures by this shore
Last Line: What we just sold away: fat chance of that
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MUNSTER, by SLIABH CUILINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye who rather
Last Line: Then shines out young munster's morn.
Subject(s): Munster, Ireland


MUSTER OF THE NORTH, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy! Joy! The day is come at last, the day of hope and pride
Subject(s): Ireland


MY BLESSING ON WATERFORD, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessing be on waterford, the town of ships
Last Line: He'll take my two hands in his own and stoop to kiss my mouth.
Subject(s): Waterford, Ireland


MY LAST UNCLE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He appeared at union station
Last Line: With his suitcase and dreams
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MY NATIVE LAND, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It chanced to me upon a time to sail
Last Line: Is my poor land, the niobe of isles.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


NANCY CHURNING, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mute, homely, that was our
Last Line: Where she rubs herself with the soot
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


NATIONAL PRESAGE, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy erin, what a lot was thine!
Last Line: They know not what -- but surely something great.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


NATIONALITY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A nation's voice, a nation's voice
Last Line: With guardian grace, upon our isle.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


NATIVE IRISHMAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before I came across the sea
Subject(s): Ireland


NATIVE SWORDS; A VOLUNTEER SONG, JULY 1, 1792, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've bent too long to braggart wrong
Last Line: Has native swords to guard it.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


NECK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He has a neck like a jockey's bollocks,' she said
Last Line: And he goes to cheltenham in bed.'
Subject(s): Ireland; Jokes


NEMESIS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed. Great bells around me pealed!
Last Line: Was as a funeral chime to me.
Subject(s): Baltard, Ireland


NEUTRALITY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The neutral island facing the atlantic
Last Line: While to the west off your own shores the mackerel %are fat - on the flesh of your kin
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Ireland


NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anger flashing in the fist, the stick
Last Line: Go with the stranger, or go alone.
Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Violence; Youth


NEW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fear no more the noise of the boom
Last Line: The irish whiskey is eden bliss. %tigerpiss.
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fear; Ireland


NIGHT OFF THE MATERNITY WARD, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was always night's barter up on ilkley moor
Last Line: For the starbloom I carried to the basket dark in my room
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Hospitals; Nurses


NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In ireland now, why do so many
Last Line: Good night, sweet prince, good night'?
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Ireland; Poverty; Rivers; Sea; Suicide


O BRAZIL, THE ISLE OF THE BLEST, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the ocean that hollows the rocks where ye dwell
Last Line: And he died on the waters, away far away.
Variant Title(s): Hy-brasail - The Isle Of The Blest
Subject(s): Hy-brasail (island), Ireland


O'BRIEN OF ARRA, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall are the towers of o'kennedy [o'ceinneidigh]
Last Line: To give him the cead mile failte.
Subject(s): Arra, Ireland


O'CONNELL, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowned with a liberated people's love
Last Line: God crowned him victor for his work well done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; O'connell, Daniel (1775-1847)


O'CONNELL'S STATUE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chisel the likeness of the chief
Last Line: If to man you'd change the stone.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; O'connell, Daniel (1775-1847); Statues


O'CONNOR'S CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sleep of storms is dark upon the skies
Last Line: The tempest, and the desert, and the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


O'CONNOR'S CHILD; OR, THE FLOWER OF LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, once the harp of innisfail
Last Line: The morat in a golden cup.
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland


O'DONOHUE'S MISTRESS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the fair months that round the sun
Last Line: Dear love, I'll die for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland


O'SULLIVAN'S RETURN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O'suillebhain has come
Last Line: "is it thus, is it thus, that you return?"
Subject(s): Bantry Bay, Ireland; Disasters; Shipwrecks


O, BREATHE NOT HIS NAME!, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, breathe not his name! Let it sleep in the shade
Last Line: Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Oh! Breathe Not His Name
Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions; Nature


ODE TO J. S. BUCKINGHAM, M.P.; ON REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DRUNKEDNESS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mr. Buckingham, if I may take
Last Line: Are not so much more temperate than others.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Ireland; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Irish; Prohibition


ODE TO THE HILL OF HOWTH, by WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: How sweet from proud ben-edir's height
Last Line: Chief of the fenians' happy hill!
Subject(s): Howarth (hill), Ireland


ODE TO THE KING; ON HIS IRISH EXPEDITION, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure there's some wondrous joy in doing good
Last Line: Falls sick in the posteriors of the world
Subject(s): Ireland


OF MOIRA UP THE GLEN, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's little that I'd care for the glories of ireland
Last Line: The lovely unfolding of dream-purged desire.
Subject(s): Doves; Ireland; Irish


OF THE WARS IN IRELAND, by JOHN HARRINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I praise the speech, but cannot now abide it
Last Line: I shall forever love my home the better.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John
Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish


OF, OR FROM, by PAUL T. HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These sons %become me
Last Line: Become me they %become me
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons


OFF THE IRISH COAST, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gulls on the wind
Last Line: Ever for love that stung?
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Gulls; Ireland; Love; Seagulls; Irish


OH! FOR A STEED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! For a steed, a rushing steed, and a blazing scimitar
Last Line: To conquer if then to fall.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nationalism - Ireland


OLD CHURCH AT LISMORE, by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old church, thou still art catholic! -e'en dream they as they
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Of The Nation
Subject(s): Lismore, Ireland


OLD GALWAY, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far in a garden's wreckage
Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R.
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland


OLD IRELAND, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty
Last Line: Moves to-day in a new country.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


OLD IRISH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old irish word for kiss
Last Line: He knows how stupid it is to think
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Ireland; Kisses; Relationships


OLD WOMAN REMEMBERS, by ISABELLA AUGUSTA GREGORY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seven hundred and a half of years
Subject(s): Ireland


ON BAILE'S STRAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a clever man you are though you are blind!
Last Line: [they go out.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish


ON BEHALF OF SOME IRISHMEN NOT FOLLOWERS OF TRADITION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They call us aliens, we are told
Last Line: The golden heresy of truth.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Liberty; Irish


ON CUTTING DOWN THE OLD THORN AT MARKET HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At market hill, as well appears
Last Line: "then, bloody caitiff! Think on me."
Subject(s): Market Hill, Ireland


ON GREAT SUGARLOAF, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where sugarloaf with bare and ruinous wedge
Last Line: Between two glooms, a transitory glow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A.
Subject(s): Great Sugarloaf (mountain), Ireland


ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor
Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads!
Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish


ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD TOWNSMAN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young he left thee, poor he left thee
Last Line: His will haunt the liffey shore.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ON THE IRISH CLUB, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye paltry underlings of state
Last Line: To rail at men by nature fools %but ********** %*********
Subject(s): Ireland


ON THE VIKING RAIDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since tonight the wind is high
Last Line: Coursing the irish channel
Subject(s): Ireland; Vikings


ON TRIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hold our breath, the island is on trial
Last Line: The flesh becomes word: guilty.
Subject(s): Guilt; Ireland; Trials; Waiting


ON VISITING THE GREAT DUBLIN BREWERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brewing the best way hard money to win is
Last Line: Guinness makes porter, and porter makes guineas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Dublin, Ireland; Ale; Wine


ONCE ALIEN HERE, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once alien here my fathers built their house
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ONCE ALIEN HERE, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once alien here my fathers built their house
Last Line: Find easy voice to utter each aright
Subject(s): Ireland


ORANGE AND GREEN WILL CARRY THE DAY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland! Rejoice, and england! Deplore
Last Line: Orange and green shall carry the day.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


ORANGE LILLY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear orange brothers, have you heard of the news
Last Line: Those freebooters ere long with the dead shall be numberedy
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


ORANGE YEOMANRY OF '98, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am an humble orangeman
Last Line: Who fought in ninety-eight!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


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)


OULD KILKINNY, by JAMES B. DOLLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm sick o' new york city an' the roarin' o' the trains
Subject(s): Kilkenny, Ireland


OUR LADY OF KNOCK, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say our lady shone there once
Last Line: Dreams travel back to where I can't
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


OUR OWN AGAIN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the coward shrink aside
Last Line: We'll have our own again.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of him that I loved
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Irish


OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of him that I loved
Last Line: When the whole habit of the mind was changed, %the ocean breathed out morning in one breath
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


OURSELVES ALONE, by JOHN O'HAGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The work that should today be wrought
Last Line: Redeemed -- erect -- alone!
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


PADDY'S ODE TO THE PRINCE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mighty prince!
Last Line: Remimber poor ould erin.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


PARADISE LOST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She phoned from idaho, he was in glin
Last Line: Hell is the home of lost opportunity
Subject(s): Idaho; Ireland; Love; Past; Remorse


PARNELL, by DAVID CINTINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the queen's cellar at eltham
Last Line: You needed, what needed you
Subject(s): Ireland; Peasantry


PASSAGE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The town of passage is both large and spacious
Last Line: In sweet bot'ny bay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father
Variant Title(s): Attractions Of A Fashionable Irish Watering-place;the Town Of Passage
Subject(s): Passage, Ireland


PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blessing from the lord on high
Last Line: Over munster fall and lie!
Subject(s): "munster, Ireland;


PATRIOT MAID, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An irish girl in heart and soul
Last Line: And raise the true and brave
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


PATRIOT MOTHER, by EVA MARY KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, tell us the name of the rebelly crew
Last Line: As the heart of the martyr that hangs from it here
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


PEG OF LIMAVADDY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Riding from coleraine
Last Line: Peg of limavaddy!
Subject(s): Limavaddy, Ireland; Travel; Youth; Journeys; Trips


PHASES OF THE CELTIC REVIVAL, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erin aboo! Though the desolate ocean
Last Line: Tread, if you dare, on the tail of my coat!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


PICKING HIS WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: James joyce walks down a laneway
Last Line: Blind stylish man
Subject(s): Aging; Change; Cities; Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Walking


PICKING SHAMROCK IN IRELAND, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three leaves define the trinity
Last Line: Satan to wash away our sins
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


PILGRIMAGE, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the far south glittered
Subject(s): Clonmacnoise, Ireland


PILGRIMAGE, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the far south glittered
Last Line: Until our hollow ship was kneeling %over the longer waves
Subject(s): Clonmacnoise, Ireland


PLANTING SNOWDROPS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We cut through tangles in october
Last Line: The wish that still returns
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


POEM WRITTEN IN TIME OF TROUBLE BY AN IRISH PRIEST, by ISABELLA AUGUSTA GREGORY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My thoughts, my grief! Are without strength
Subject(s): Ireland


PORTRAIT WITH BACKGROUND, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Devorgilla's supremely lovely daughter
Subject(s): Ireland


POSTCARD FROM IRELAND, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm here with the last good weather
Last Line: From the underside, but the rafts of geese are already lost, %calling somewhere out in the bay
Subject(s): Birds; Ireland; Travel


PRAYERS I SAW ASCEND, by BERTHA L. GIBBONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never saw a prayer ascend to god
Last Line: But many a prayer I saw ascend to god.
Subject(s): Ireland; Prayer; Irish


PRIEST OF ADDERGOOL, by WILLIAM ROONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's someone at the window. Tap! Tap! Tap anew
Last Line: Of all that trod that pathway and showed the way to die!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


PRIESTS OF '98, by J. M. FURLONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The story of our native land, from weary age to age
Last Line: To feed it with their own heart's blood-the priests of ninety-eight
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND, by ALDFRITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found in innisfail the fair
Last Line: From the irish. Tr. James clarence mangan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ealdfrith; Eahfrith
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips


PROLOGUE INTENDED FOR 'VORTIGERN', by HENRY JAMES PYE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cause, with learn'd investigation fraught
Last Line: And give as they decide, your just decree.
Subject(s): Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835); Shakespeare - Forgeries


QUARANTINE, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the worst hour of the worst season
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine


QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To queenstown harbour come great ocean ships
Subject(s): Cobh, Ireland


QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He bullied her for years
Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused


RANDALL M'DONALD, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady of antrim rose with the morn
Last Line: Lorded both wife and land.
Variant Title(s): A Legend Of Antrim
Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland


RATHANGAN'S EDWARD MOLLOY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What use in delaying for vengeance to strike?
Last Line: For the failure and fate of brave edward molloy
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


REBEL MOTHER'S LULLABY, by SHANE LESLIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, rest to the morrow, for many the sorrow
Last Line: Lennavan mo.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


REBELLION OF 1798, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ruthless fitzgerald stepp'd forward to rule
Last Line: So down, down, the croppies fell down
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


RED HANRAHAN'S SONG ABOUT IRELAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over cummen strand
Last Line: Is cathleen, the daughter of houlihan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): The Song Of Red Hanrahan
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


REGINA MENDOSENA, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm regina mendosena, queen of all of shanty town
Last Line: For I lay aside me titles and me very ancient name.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ireland; Nationalism - Ireland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Irish


RESONANCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When protestants march down the catholic road
Last Line: When a housefly makes its last confession.
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Ireland; Marching And Marches; Protest, Social; Religion


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


RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon erin’s honor and erin’s pride!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Beauty


RIGHTS OF MAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I speak in candour, one night in slumber
Last Line: He prayed success for the rights of man
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


RISING MIST AT ARD NA SIDHE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I awake at dawn, at the alba
Last Line: Are you awake now, my lord?
Subject(s): Ireland


RISING OF THE MOON, by JOHN KEEGAN CASEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Then, tell me, sean o'farrell, tell me why you hurry so?
Last Line: Who would follow in their footsteps at the rising of the moon
Alternate Author Name(s): Leo
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


RIVERS OF IRELAND, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ne thence the irishe rivers absent were
Last Line: To doe their dueful service, as to them befell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Ireland; Rivers; Irish


ROADS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stonewalls, not knowing how to go
Last Line: And scarecrows line his field
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


RODY MCCORLEY, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! See the fleet-foot host of men
Last Line: On the bridge of toome to-day
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


RODY MCCORLEY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hero now I speak of, he was proper tall and straight
Last Line: Till michael sounds his trumpet loud, and says ye dead arise
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES'), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say that roger casement / did what he had to do
Last Line: That is in quick-lime laid
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Nationalism - Ireland; Treason And Traitors


ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES'), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say that roger casement %did what he had to do
Last Line: Here died the o'rahilly. %r.I.P.' writ in blood. %how goes the weather?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Nationalism - Ireland; Treason And Traitors


ROISIN DUBH; OR, THE BLEEDING HEART, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O who art thou with that queenly brow
Last Line: "through ghostly might."
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


ROUSE HIBERNIANS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rouse, hibernians, from your slumbers!
Last Line: That have come to set us free!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


RUNOFF, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watchful mildred, blind eye
Last Line: I was hunched against february
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SACRED HEART PROCESSION, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One corpus christi you recall
Last Line: And my heart, beating, beating %under all that lace
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me
Last Line: Sang bridget bride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


SAINT BRIGID'S DAY, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pintails rising in straight line
Last Line: Is alive again and drinking
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SAMUEL BECKETT'S DUBLIN, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it is cold it stinks, and not till then
Last Line: Who barely living therefore altogether %live till they die; and sweetly smell till then
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Dublin, Ireland


SCHOOL NURSE'S JOURNAL, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Must I open the paint-stuck windows
Last Line: I count fifty sprites in the dell
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SEAN-BHEAN BHOCHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea, says the sean-bhean bhocht
Last Line: Then hurrah for liberty! Says the sean-bhean bhocht
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


SEPTEMBER 1913, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What need you, being come to sense
Last Line: They're with o'leary in the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'leary, John (1830-1907); Patriotism


SEUMAS BEG, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man was sitting underneath a tree
Last Line: He was a real nice man! He liked me too!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SEVERED HEAD, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May, and the air is light
Last Line: Propped a yellow cartwheel %against the door
Subject(s): Ireland


SEWING LESSONS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can still feel the dig
Last Line: As he blessed us from the top %of the class
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SHAN VAN VOCHT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o, the french are on the say!"
Last Line: Then hurrah for liberty! / says the shan van vocht
Subject(s): "kildare, Ireland;


SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN), by DION BOUCICAULT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O! The french are on the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner
Subject(s): Kildare, Ireland


SHANE'S HEAD, by JOHN SAVAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it thus, o shane the haughty! Shane the valiant! That we meet
Last Line: In search of some o'neill, through whom to throb its hate again.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'neill, Shane (1530-1567)


SHANID CASTLE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On shannon side the day is closing fair
Last Line: And bless thee for the joys I yet remember well!
Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland


SHANNON WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's going blind. Wrote a poem once
Last Line: As the shannon flow
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rivers; Shannon (river), Ireland; Women


SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps
Last Line: From her own loved island of sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Curran, Sarah; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions; Love


SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean
Last Line: Advance! And be your watchword ever -- god for ireland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): France; Italy; Nationalism - Ireland; Russia; Italians; Soviet Union; Russians


SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, AND DUBLIN; A COMPARISON, by JOHN+(2) FORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two famous places I record
Last Line: But I prefer the coal, though some %declare that whisky's warmer
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Silkstone, England


SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is december in wicklow
Subject(s): Ireland; Winter; Irish


SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is december in wicklow
Last Line: The once-in-a-lifetime portent, %the comet's pulsing rose
Subject(s): Ireland; Winter


SIR TURLOUGH, OR THE CHURCHYARD BRIDE, by WILLIAM CARLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bride she bound her golden hair
Last Line: By the bonnie green woods of killeevy.
Variant Title(s): Killeevy
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Killeevy, Ireland; Graveyards


SIXTEEN DEAD MEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! In the still night. Who goes there?
Last Line: "guard her unconquered soul, strong in their death."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland - Rebellions; Heroes; Heroines


SIXTEEN DEAD MEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O but we talked at large before
Last Line: That converse bone to bone?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


SIXTEEN MINUTES, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There in the sky above lewisburg
Last Line: Through all the killing and hounding, we all but worshipped
Subject(s): Ireland; Jews; Lewisburg Penitentiary (pennsylvania)


SKIM-MILK, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A small part only of my grief I write
Last Line: In cormac uasail mac donagh of the golden hair!
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Irish


SLEEPING IN THE AUTUMN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps after so many years
Last Line: I'd hug your empty pillow like a back
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SMALL DEFEATS: IN A DUBLIN CATACOMB, IN A RETIREMENT CONDO, by GORDON WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dublin catacomb, I saw a nun's mummy
Last Line: And raise up all your fallen flesh!
Subject(s): Condominiums; Dublin, Ireland; Retirement


SO FAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah! Me jewel an' darlin' dublin, me capital star
Last Line: Only three murders this weekend, so far
Subject(s): Cynicism; Death; Dublin, Ireland; Murder


SOGGARTH AROON, by JOHN BANIM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the slave they say
Last Line: Soggarth aroon!
Subject(s): Ireland; Service; Irish


SOLILOQUY OF THE IRISH POET, by VICKI HEARNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My singing moves the wind, the seaking of swift horses
Last Line: Threads inside the seams, binding him, freeing me
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish Language; Poetry And Poets


SONG, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His war-horse beats a distant bourne
Last Line: It weeps, and so must thou!
Subject(s): Smerwick, Ireland


SONG, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She says: 'poor friend, you waste a treasure'
Last Line: Grow larger in her eyes.
Subject(s): Smerwick, Ireland


SONG, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Slanting both hands against her forehead
Last Line: Or lure jove's herald from above!
Subject(s): Smerwick, Ireland


SONG FOR JULY 12TH, 1843, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come! Pledge again thy heart and hand
Last Line: And we for one another.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


SONG OF A TURF-SOD, by WILLIAM A. BYRNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Draw in your stools, good folk, for heating
Last Line: In my antiquity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dara, William
Subject(s): Ireland


SONG OF BALLYSHANNON, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take me home to ballyshannon, for there's music in the word
Subject(s): Ireland


SONG OF INNISFAIL, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came from a land beyond the sea
Last Line: Our great forefathers trod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SONG OF PROSPEROUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the twenty-fourth of may, at the dawning of the day
Last Line: Long may they live and reign over bloody tyranny
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


SONG OF THE LITTLE VILLAGES, by JAMES B. DOLLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pleasant little villages that grace the irish glynns
Subject(s): Ireland


SONG OF THE NORTH, by BRIAN O'HIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sing a song of the northern land
Last Line: At northern firesides-in ireland free!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


SONG OF THE VOLUNTEERS OF 1782, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurrah! 'tis done - our freedom's won
Last Line: Hurrah for the volunteers!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


SONG OF TONE, by BRIAN O'HIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: No craven dirge of sorrow
Last Line: Of our own unconquered tone!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


SONGS OF OUR LAND, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Songs of our land, ye are with us for ever
Last Line: Shall glory and live in the songs of our land.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SONNET BY A SAXON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O blarney! Blarney, wonder-working
Last Line: How end my sonnet?—echo answers—blarney!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


SONNET: LAMENT OF THE LOYAL IRISH, 1869, by LUCY KNOX    Poem Source                    
First Line: England, that once with hard averted eyes
Last Line: A fool who dares not do the folly planned
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


SPECIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a special poison to be found
Last Line: Until all flesh %is dust.
Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Fear


SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered / a place as kind as it is green
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Irish


SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered %a place as kind as it is green
Last Line: I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm irish
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


SPENSER'S TOWER (IRISH PROSPECTS), by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing left. The monument's a ruin
Last Line: Turnings are to be seen that all is in doubt, %the way here & back again, a stair %that rises now in
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


SPINK MOUNTAIN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All I know is that a red lamp gleamed on the delft
Last Line: At last what was left of all I remember
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SPRING FLOWERS FROM IRELAND, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the letters rustling fold
Last Line: And think the violet eyes thine own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence
Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Irish


SPRING SONG: TO IRELAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep no more, heart of my heart, no more
Last Line: And the spring—the spring is here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; Irish


ST. MICHAN'S CHURCHYARD, by ROSE KAVANAGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Inside the city's throbbing heart
Last Line: The peace of heaven was everywhere.
Subject(s): Churchyards; Dublin, Ireland; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803)


ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seems to me st. Patrick's day
Last Line: And blossoms sleep beneath the snow.
Subject(s): Green (color); Ireland; March (month); St. Patrick's Day; Irish


ST. PATRICK'S DAY WARNING, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: St. Patrick drove from ireland
Last Line: And may the saints preserve you.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Saints; Irish


ST. PATRICK'S FIRST CONVERTS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn on the hills of innisfail!
Last Line: Was fulfilled in the land in an after day.
Subject(s): Lough Sheeling (lake), Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


STAG, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man said, 'I saw'
Last Line: A doe and a fawn, and before, %a stag with head held high!
Variant Title(s): The Deer Of Ireland; Reminiscence:
Subject(s): Ireland


START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea
Last Line: Making their mark against green gape-water, then gone
Subject(s): Absence; Connemara, Ireland; Separation; Isolation


START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea
Last Line: Making their mark an instant against green gape-water, then gone
Subject(s): Absence; Connemara, Ireland


STONE QUARRY: LATE CAPITALISM COMES TO THE REMOTE WEST COAST OF, by LINDA MCCARRISTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From here the stones were drawn
Last Line: To take it and eat it %digesting even its name?
Subject(s): History; Ireland; Stones


SUNSET ON THE LOWER SHANNON, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stilled are the winds, scarce heard far ocean's roar
Last Line: And now the last expiring beam has fled.
Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland


SWALLOWS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine the journey they make
Last Line: And rise like one over water
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SWEET CASTLE HYDE, by EDWARD KENEALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I roved out on a summer's morning
Subject(s): Ireland


SWEET COUNTY WEXFORD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As they from gorey set out that morning
Last Line: But on such cowards great slaughter made
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


SWEET GLENGARIFF'S WATER, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where wildfowl swim upon the lake
Last Line: By sweet glengariff's water.
Subject(s): Glengariff, Ireland


SWEET IMOKILLY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met, within the greenwood wild
Last Line: By thy green woods, sweet imokilly!
Subject(s): Imokilly, Ireland


SWEET INNISFALLEN, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet innisfallen, fare thee well
Last Line: Is lifeless to one gleam of thine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Innisfallen (island), Ireland


SWINISH MULTITUDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me the man whose dauntless soul
Last Line: For this we dare to die
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


TALES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often at sea, when fishing nets are down
Last Line: Still keep their fairies singing on the weirs.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ireland; Sailing & Sailors; Anglers; Irish; Seamen; Sails


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And not simply by the fact that this shading of
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: #name?
Last Line: And finds no horizon %will not be there
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THE ANCIENT RACE, by MICHAEL TORMEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What shall become of the ancient race
Last Line: They shall not go, the ancient race!'
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE ARREST (1881), by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither, terence mulligan, and sit upon the floor
Last Line: The government then will let him out from black kilmainham gaol!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Ireland; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Prisons & Prisoners; Irish; Convicts


THE BALLAD OF BALLYMOTE, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stopped at her hut
Last Line: “cabbage and bones,” she said.  “cabbage and bones.”
Subject(s): Social Problems; Ireland


THE BANKS OF ANNER, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In purple robes old sliavnamon
Last Line: Upon the banks of anner!
Subject(s): Anner River, Ireland; Rivers


THE BANKS OF THE LEE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the banks of the lee, the banks of the lee
Last Line: And 'tis little I'd sigh for the banks of the lee?
Subject(s): Lee (river), Ireland; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE BANKS OF THE LEE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the banks of the lee, the banks of the lee
Last Line: And 't is little I'd sigh for the banks of the lee!
Subject(s): Lee (river), Ireland


THE BANSHEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sat beside the haunted stream
Last Line: But mac caura's boast and mac caura's pride / is faded and lost forever
Subject(s): Banshees;ireland; Irish


THE BATTLE EVE OF THE BRIGADE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mess-tent is full, and the glasses are set
Last Line: Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the irish brigade.
Subject(s): Army - Ireland


THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye genii of the nation
Last Line: And ended the shaloo on the shannon shore.
Subject(s): Ireland; Limerick, Battle Of (1690); Irish


THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK (AUGUST 27, 1690), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, hurrah! For the men, who, when danger is nigh
Last Line: As the battle of luimneach linn-ghlas.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Limerick, Battle Of (1690)


THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (4), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "july the first, in oldbridge town"
Last Line: Of king william that crossed the boyne water
Subject(s): "boyne (river), Ireland;boyne, Battle Of The (1690);" Williamite Wars


THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE; FROM TWO OLD VERSIONS OF THE BALLAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: July the first of a morning fair
Last Line: As with blow and shout we put to rout / our enemies over the water
Subject(s): "boyne (river), Ireland;boyne, Battle Of The (1690);" Williamite Wars


THE BELLS OF SHANDON, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With deep affection and recollection
Last Line: Of the river lee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father
Variant Title(s): Shandon Bells
Subject(s): Bells; Lee (river), Ireland; Music & Musicians; Patriotism


THE BIRTH OF IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "with due condescension, I'd call your attention to what I shall mention of erin"
Last Line: "for drinking and beauty, for fighting and love"
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE BLACKSMITH OF LIMERICK, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He grasped his ponderous hammer; he could not stand it more
Last Line: "foreign gore!"
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Limerick, Ireland


THE BLARNEY, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, did you ne'er hear of 'the blarney'
Last Line: You may kiss whom you please with your blarney.
Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland


THE BLARNEY STONE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In blarney castle, on a crumbling tower
Last Line: Has kissed, -- not calvary, -- but the blarney stone!
Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE BOATMAN OF KINSALE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His kiss is sweet, his word is kind
Last Line: The boatman of kinsale.
Subject(s): Kinsale, Ireland


THE BOG OF CLONDALLAGH, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are the orchards of scurragh
Last Line: From dear jane of clondallagh!
Subject(s): Clondallagh, Ireland


THE BROADSTONE; NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath
Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland


THE BROTHERS: HENRY AND JOHN SHEARS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight; falls the lamp-light dull and sickly
Last Line: Or die, if we can but live as slaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


THE BURIAL, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why rings the knell of the funeral bell from a hundred village shrines?
Last Line: The oath they swore on the martyr's clay.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Tyrrell, Rev. P. J.


THE BURIAL OF KING CORMAC, by SAMUEL FERGUSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Crom cruach and his sub-gods twelve
Last Line: For still 'tis only dawning day.
Subject(s): Cormac, King Of Ireland (3d Century)


THE CALL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The unforgotten voices call at twilight
Last Line: They will not give me peace at dawn and twilight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ireland; Loss; Memory; Voices; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish


THE CELTIC CROSS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through storm and fire and gloom
Last Line: When erin's self is drown'd.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE CHOICE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This consul casement - he who heard the cry
Last Line: And banshee cries upon far irish hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Ireland; Irish


THE CHRISTENIN', by PRIAM [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on the plains of tooraneedin, where the rabbits keep on breedin'"
Last Line: He's the one and only christian pig in all the countryside
Alternate Author Name(s): Priam
Subject(s): Baptism;christianity;ireland;pigs; Christenings;irish;boars;hogs


THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the connaught rangers when they were passing by
Last Line: And the green flags on their bayonets will flutter in the wind.
Subject(s): World War I - Ireland


THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can have made the grey hen flutter so?
Last Line: The darkness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE COUNTY MAYO, by ANTHONY RAFTERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, with the coming in of the spring, the days will stretch a bit
Last Line: For age itself would leave me there, and I'd be young again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Raftery; Raifteiri, Antoine; O Reachtabhra, Antaine
Subject(s): Home; Mayo (county), Ireland


THE COUNTY OF MAYO, by THOMAS LAVELLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: On the deck of patrick lynch's boat I sat in woeful plight
Last Line: And I sailing, sailing swiftly from the county of mayo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Flavell, Thomas; Lavell, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE CROPPY BOY: (A BALLAD OF '98), by WILLIAM B. MCBURNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good men and true! In this house who dwell
Last Line: Breathe a prayer and a tear for the croppy boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, Carroll
Subject(s): Deception; Ireland - Rebellions


THE DARK PALACE (THE PALACE OF AILEACH, SEAT OF THE O'NEILL), by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There beams no light from thy hall to-night
Last Line: Out of aileach neid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE DARK ROSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though all my loves of old have passed away
Last Line: The wind from over your mountains troubles me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Love; Nature; Irish


THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the harp, old minstrel, you have sung of / vanished things
Last Line: For ireland at the dawning of the day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Fables; Ireland; Allegories; Irish


THE DEAD AT CLONMACNOIS, by ANGUS O'GILLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a quiet water'd land, a land of roses
Last Line: Many a swan-white breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'gillan, Enoch
Variant Title(s): Clonmacnois
Subject(s): Clonmacnoise, Ireland


THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All the dead kings came to me
Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War


THE DEATH OF LEAG, CUCHULAIN'S CHARIOTEER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I only heard the loud ebb on the sand
Last Line: "they come to you with sleep."
Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland; Mythology; Heroes; Heroines; Irish


THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ireland's cities, one by one, beneath the orange brand
Last Line: Is doomed to perish by our love and sorrow unredeemed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan; Irish


THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD; A CHAUNT OF THE BRIGADE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sarsfield has sailed from limerick town
Last Line: When we chase the foe from our native land!
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan


THE DEATH OF SUALTEM, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields
Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse.
Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The


THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain
Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky.
Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology


THE DESMOND, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the feal's wave benighted
Last Line: Ranks next to divine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Desmond's Song
Subject(s): Feal (river), Ireland


THE DEVIL'S WALK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, early in the morning
Last Line: Bloodless as his coward soul.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE DIRGE OF ATHUNREE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Athunree! Athunree! / erin's heart, it broke on thee!
Last Line: Athunree!
Subject(s): Athenry, Ireland; Athunree, Ireland


THE DIRGE OF DESMOND, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Rush, dark dirge, o'er hills of erin! Woe for desmond's name and race!
Last Line: The man shall live who fought for god; the man who for his country died.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Lament


THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys


THE DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth
Last Line: Fate across all them rolls
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish


THE DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world
Last Line: Depressed. Down on my knees
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Work; Workers


THE DUNGANNON CONVENTION (1782), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The church of dungannon is full to the floor
Last Line: She surrender the guns of her brave volunteers!
Subject(s): Dungannon, Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions


THE DUNOLLY EAGLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew
Last Line: That clings to slavery for its own sad sake.
Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish


THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, by LUKE AYLMER CONOLLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: To rathlin's isle I chanced to sail
Last Line: The fairy isle is seen no more!
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Rathlin (island), Ireland


THE ENIGMA, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale victims, where is your fatherland?
Last Line: And save or avenge your fatherland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


THE EXODUS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million a decade!' calmly and coldly
Last Line: Ye're judged and doomed by the statist's pen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE FAIR HILLS OF EIRE; O!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take a blessing from my heart to the land of my birth
Last Line: "and the sunlight that shone long ago on the shields / of the gaels, on the fair hills of eire, o!"
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A plenteous place is ireland for hospitable cheer
Last Line: On the holy hills of holy ireland
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! Dead! Ye are dead while ye live
Last Line: You've a name that ye live -- but are dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE FAMINE YEAR, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger
Last Line: And arraign ye as our murderers, the spoilers of our land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Vengeance; Liberty


THE FATE OF KING DATHI (A.D. 428), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkly their glibs o'erhang
Last Line: Lieth king dathi!
Subject(s): Dathi, King Of Ireland


THE FATE OF THE O'SULLIVAN'S, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A baby in the mountain gap
Last Line: They never saw berehaven!
Subject(s): Bantry Bay, Ireland; Ireland; Irish


THE FIGHTING RACE [FEBRUARY 16, 1898], by JOSEPH IGNATIUS CONSTANTINE CLARKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Read out the names!' and burke sat back
Last Line: 1'98
Subject(s): Ireland; Maine (ship); Patriotism; Irish


THE FLOWER OF FINAE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright red is the sun on the waves of lough sheelin
Last Line: This nun is poor eily, the flower of finae.
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Death; Finae, Ireland; Nuns; Dead, The


THE FOUR MASTERS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many altars are in banba
Last Line: Faithful, grateful, just, to be!
Subject(s): Tyrconnell Abbey, Ireland


THE GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish


THE GLEN OF GLANGOOLE, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hills are all around me, - in a dell
Last Line: Wait me with welcome kind and friendly smiles.
Subject(s): Glangoole, Ireland


THE GOBHAN SAER, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stept a man out of the ways of men
Last Line: His name and towers for centuries shall stand.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Ireland; Irish


THE GOLDEN ISLAND: ARRAN FROM AYR, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep set in distant seas it lies
Last Line: That vision of the golden isle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Arran (island), Ireland


THE GOLDEN TONGUE OF IRELAND, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tongue of spice and salt and wine and honey
Last Line: Calling doom on chieftains dying. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE GRAVE OF A POETESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood beside thy lowly grave
Last Line: And joy the poet's eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Woodstock, Ireland


THE GRAVE OF RURY, by THOMAS WILLIAM ROLLESTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear as air, the western waters
Last Line: River-voices of the western vale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rolleston, T. W.
Subject(s): O'connor, Roderic, King Of Ireland


THE GREAT HUNGER: 1, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Variant Title(s): The Great Hunger
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine


THE GREEN ABOVE THE RED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full often, when our fathers saw the red above the green
Last Line: Once and for ever more to raise the green above the red!
Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty


THE GREEN GRASS OF OLD IRELAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green grass av owld ireland!
Last Line: By reason av the green grass av owld ireland.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grass; Green (color); Ireland; Irish


THE GREENHORN YANK, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the morning I stood in the fair of dunleer
Last Line: Concerning the rope and the nose-ring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis
Subject(s): Americans; Bristol, England; Ireland; Irish


THE GROVES OF BLARNEY, by RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves of blarney they look so charming
Last Line: From the blarney stone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Milliken, Richard Alfred
Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland


THE HARP, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The harp that once through tara's halls
Last Line: To show that still she lives.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Tara;freedom Sleeps
Subject(s): Freedom; Tara, Ireland; Liberty


THE HARP, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This harp was all my father gave
Last Line: "their strength could not restore."
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland - History; Heroes; Heroines


THE HARPER, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the green banks of shannon, when sheelah was nigh
Last Line: I can nevermore return with my poor dog tray.
Variant Title(s): The Irish Harper And His Dog;poor Dog Tray
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Shannon (river), Ireland


THE HILL OF KILLENARDEN, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though time effaces memory
Last Line: That day on killenarden.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): Killenarden, Ireland


THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the hills and far away
Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish


THE HILLS OF SWEET TIPPERARY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mary dear, 'tis long ago
Last Line: The hills of sweet tipperary.
Subject(s): Tipperary, Ireland


THE HOUSE OF USNA; A DRAMA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it who is near me
Last Line: Seers and the will of the g
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Conchobhar Macnessa, King Of Ulster; Ireland; Irish


THE INVASION: SONG. CEAD MILE FAILTE, ELIM!, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Cead mile failte! Child of the ithian!
Last Line: Cead mile failte, elim!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE IRISH AVATAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere the daughter of brunswick is cold in her grave
Last Line: T is the glory of grattan, and genius of moore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Ireland; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Irish


THE IRISH DANCER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am of ireland
Last Line: Come and dance with me / in ireland
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;ireland; Irish


THE IRISH HURRAH, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you hearkened the eagle scream over the sea!
Last Line: Of the saxon reserve at the irish hurrah.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE IRISH NEW POLICEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "your pardon, gents and ladies all"
Last Line: For don't myself get half the booty?
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;ireland;police;streets; Irish;avenues


THE IRISH PIPES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the piper playing
Last Line: The things you let me know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Pipers; Wisdom; Irish


THE IRISH RAPPAREES; A PEASANT BALLAD OF 1691, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Righ shemus he has gone to france, and left his crown behind
Last Line: The men that rode at sarsfield's side, the roving rapparees!
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty


THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER, by JAMES A. SIDEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come here, my boy, hould up your head
Last Line: "of bally blarney college."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidney, James A.
Subject(s): Ireland; Teaching & Teachers; Irish


THE IRISHMAN, by JAMES ORR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The savage loves his native shore
Last Line: The home of every irishman.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Ballycarry
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


THE IRISHMAN'D DREAM, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gloria! Gloria! With thee here this very pit
Last Line: (she embraces, then kisses him.)
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands
Last Line: She was our lady's dower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology


THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree
Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness


THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish


THE LAND BETRAYED, 1881-3, by STEPHEN EDWARD DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Near to the grave's mysterious brink
Last Line: To penitence and suffering.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE LAND OF FAL, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If poesy have truth at all
Last Line: To great o neill!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE LAND WE LIVE IN AND THE LAND WE LEFT, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The children of the western gael
Last Line: We're irish yet! We're irish yet!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE LAPFUL OF NUTS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whene'er I see soft hazel eyes
Last Line: That sat with thy white lap full of nuts / beneath the hazel-tree
Subject(s): "limerick, Ireland;


THE LEGENDS, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They fought ere sunrise at tor conainn
Last Line: "to the ""giant stepping-stones"" round the north."
Subject(s): Tor Conainn, Ireland


THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country
Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S CALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is this? They say the irish fighting spirit
Last Line: Strings—it's the little people calling, calling you to war!
Subject(s): Ireland; War; World War I; Irish; First World War


THE LOST LAND, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have two daughters
Subject(s): Daughters; Ireland; Absence; Irish; Separation; Isolation


THE LOST PATH, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet thoughts, bright dreams, my comfort be
Last Line: Power, country, fame, and bride.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE MAIDEN CITY, by CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH TONNA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where foyle his swelling waters
Last Line: Yet the maiden on her throne, boys, shall be a maiden still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Charlotte Elizabeth
Subject(s): Londonderry, Northern Ireland; War


THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood among a crowd at drumahair
Last Line: The man has found no comfort in the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE MEETING OF THE WATERS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet
Last Line: And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): The Vale Of Avoca
Subject(s): Avoca (river), Ireland; Avoca (vale), Ireland; Friendship; Rivers


THE MEN OF 'EIGHTY-TWO, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To rend a cruel chain
Last Line: Our freedom! In a cruisgin lan!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


THE MONKS OF KILCREA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three monks sat by a bogwood fire
Last Line: As of old a sennachie taught the lay to me
Subject(s): "kilcrea Abbey, Ireland;monks;


THE MORE A MAN HAS THE MORE A MAN WANTS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At four in the morning he wakes
Subject(s): Ireland; Crime & Criminals; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Irish


THE MOURNER'S SOLILOQUY IN THE RUINED ABBEY OF TIMOLEAGUE, by JOHN O'CULLANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Abroad one night in loneliness I strolled
Last Line: O death, when wilt thou come and lend a wretch relief?
Subject(s): Timoleague, Ireland


THE MUNSTER WAR-SONG; 1190, by RICHARD DALTON WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can the depths of the ocean afford you not graves
Last Line: To gorge the young eagles of dark eatharlach!
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE MUSIC OF ST. PATRICK'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again! Oh! Send that anthem-peal again
Last Line: Our nature's limit in its proudest hour?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin


THE NEW PATH, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We stand in the light of a dawning day
Last Line: To build up a noble nation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE OAKS OF GLENEIGH, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, think of the days when the crag's hoary masses
Last Line: To breast the rude blasts, like the oaks of gleneigh!
Subject(s): Gleneigh, Ireland


THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road
Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails


THE OLD LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I came back to ireland the leaves on the tree
Last Line: For don't you remember? And could you forget?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Ireland; Memory; Dead, The; Irish


THE OLD MAN'S BLESSING, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine eye is dull, my hair is white
Last Line: By hearts like thine is freedom won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Old Age; Youth


THE OLD OLD CHURCH (FOR IRISH CHURCHMEN), by J. DE B. SAUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old old church of the old old faith!
Last Line: Bespeak our ancestry.
Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Irish


THE OLD SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a young lad of happy sixteen
Last Line: "and my last breath shall whisper, 'god bless grannia wael.' "
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Youth; Dead, The; Irish


THE PIPES OF THE NORTH, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do ye hear 'em sternly soundin' through the noises of the street
Last Line: Ye're sure the wings of gaelic souls as far as blood is true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E.
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Ireland; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Scotland; War; Irish


THE PRETTY GIRL OF LOCH DAN, by SAMUEL FERGUSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shades of eve had crossed the glen
Last Line: And walk to luggelaw again!
Subject(s): Lough Dan (lake), Ireland; Youth


THE PROPHECY OF ST. ORAN, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm had ceased to rave: subsiding slow
Last Line: "that his blaspheming tongue may blab no more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Ireland; Missionaries & Missions; Oran, Saint; Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Irish


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 RATTLING BOY FROM DUBLIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a rattling boy from dublin town
Last Line: Chorus.
Subject(s): Courtship; Dublin, Ireland


THE RED MAN'S WIFE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After great fire
Last Line: They fell by deirdre!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE RETURN TO ULSTER, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again - but how changed since my wanderings began
Last Line: "and restore me the dream of my spring-tide again."
Subject(s): Ulster, Ireland


THE REVOLUTION AT MARKET HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From distant regions, fortune sends
Last Line: Dispatch the rogues by whom they rise.
Subject(s): Market Hill, Ireland


THE RIGHT ROAD, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the feeble-hearted pine
Last Line: Greece and rome.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE RIVER BOYNE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of loch ramor, gently seaward stealing
Last Line: Thomas d'arcy mcgee.
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690); Williamite Wars


THE RIVER MULLA, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old father mole, (mole hight that mountain gray
Last Line: Did lose his name: so deare his love he bought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Mulla [awbeg] (river), Ireland


THE RIVERS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a far-famed blackwater that runs to loch neagh
Last Line: Our strength and delight.
Subject(s): Blackwater (river), Ireland


THE ROCK OF CASHEL, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Royal and saintly cashel! I would gaze
Last Line: Or thebes half buried in the desert sand.
Subject(s): Cashel, Ireland; Castles


THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road
Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


THE SACK OF BALTIMORE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer sun is falling softly on carbery's hundred isles
Last Line: More.
Subject(s): Baltimore, Ireland; Kidnapping; Pirates; Tragedy; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE SEA-CLIFFS OF KILKEE, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awfully beautiful art thou, o sea!
Last Line: The precipice, the ocean, and the sky.
Subject(s): Kilkee, Ireland


THE SHADOWY WATERS: INTRODUCTORY LINES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked among the seven woods of coole
Last Line: September 1900
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Coole, Ireland


THE SHAMROCK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long may the shamrock
Last Line: Still may they fondly grow together
Subject(s): Ireland;shamrock; Irish


THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea
Last Line: Then hurra for liberty! / says the shan van vocht
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy


THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh boney's on the sea
Last Line: Says the shan van vocht
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy


THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN); 1176, by MICHAEL DOHENY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sainted isle of old
Last Line: Says the shan van vocht.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE SHANNON, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: River of billows, to whose mighty hear
Last Line: My lips with limerick's wrong, with aughrim's woes?
Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland


THE SIEGE OF LIMERICK, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By william led, the english sped
Last Line: And blood and ruin round us!
Subject(s): Limerick, Ireland


THE SIGHTSEERS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and mother, my brother and sister
Subject(s): Oppression; Ireland; Irish


THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet
Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy."
Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation


THE SIX ROAD ENDS, by WILL CAREW    Poem Text                    
First Line: When folks hae got the meetin' an' sabbath dinner ower
Last Line: "courtin' on the sabbath near the ""six road ends."
Subject(s): Ireland; Country Life


THE SONG OF FIONNUALA, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent, o moyle, be the roar of thy water
Last Line: Call my spirit to the fields above?
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Moyle (river), Ireland


THE SONG OF O'RUARK, PRINCE OF BREFFNI, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The valley lay smiling before me
Last Line: On theirs is the saxon and guilt.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Breffni, Ireland


THE SPRING IN IRELAND: 1916, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not forget my charge I beg of you
Last Line: We sail away -- be with us mananan!
Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; World War I; Irish; First World War


THE STORY WITHOUT END, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my time my kindred were
Last Line: The story without end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Patriotism


THE STREAMS, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your murmurs bring the pleasant breath
Last Line: Amid the rush of streams!
Subject(s): Streams; Ireland; Homesickness; Irish


THE SUPRISE OF CREMONA (1702), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From milan to cremona duke villeroy rode
Last Line: "macdonnell and mahony fighting for me."
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Cremona, Battle Of (1702)


THE TALE OF MAD BRIGID, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then / there rung a bell
Last Line: Of some late-flying wren.
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); God; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint


THE THREE GIVERS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England gave me sun and storm
Last Line: That gave the richest gift to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; England; Ireland; United States; English; Irish; America


THE THREE WOES, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That angel whose charge is eire sang thus, o'er the dark isle winging
Last Line: Let god do that which he wills. Let his servants endure and adore!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE TRUE IRISH KING, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The caesar of rome has a wider demesne
Last Line: And saints make the bed of the true irish king!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE UNION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three in one, but one in three
Last Line: The royal commonweal!
Subject(s): God; Ireland; Nations; Sea; Irish; Ocean


THE VOW OF TIPPERARY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From carrick streets to shannon shore
Last Line: And that's the vow of tipperary!
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE WAKE OF WILLIAM ORR, by WILLIAM DRENNAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here our murdered brother lies
Last Line: The day is come -- arise! -- arise!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


THE WAR SHIP OF PEACE, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet land of song, thy harp doth hang
Last Line: Columbia's glorious name.
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Jamestown (ship); Navy - United States; American Navy


THE WAVES OF BREFFNY, by EVA GORE-BOOTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grand road from the mountain goes shining to the sea
Last Line: And the little waves of breffny go stumbling through my soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Selina
Variant Title(s): The Little Waves Of Breffny
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THE WEARER OF THE GREEN; TO MY FRIEND JOHN JAMES DONOGHUE, M.D., by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis now just a year since, come saint patrick's day
Last Line: Unfortunate divil—he laughed at the green!
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Irish


THE WEARIN' O' THE GREEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?"
Last Line: "and where, please god, I'll stick to wearin' o' the green"
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;patriotism;st. Patrick's Day; Liberty;irish


THE WEARING OF THE GREEN, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, patrick dear, and did you hear
Last Line: And wear the living green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Ireland; St. Patrick's Day; Irish


THE WEST'S ASLEEP, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all beside a vigil keep
Last Line: "we'll watch till death for erin's sake!"
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE WILD GEESE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked by esknahinny at the waning of the moon
Last Line: The wild geese, the wild geese, they have come home once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Geese; Ireland; Irish


THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty
Last Line: To find they have flown away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy


THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat within the valley green
Last Line: The wind that shakes the barley!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE; OR, THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO HIS BIRTHPLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu to ballyshannon [belashanny]! Where I was bred and born
Last Line: And I must quit my native shore, and the winding banks of erne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Variant Title(s): The Emigrant's Farewell To Ballyshannon
Subject(s): Ballyshannon, Ireland; Erne (river), Ireland; Farewell; Parting


THE YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift up your pale faces, ye children of sorrow
Last Line: Then patriots, heroes, strike! God for our land!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Europe; Ireland - Rebellions; Revolutions


THE YOUNG PATRIOT LEADER, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! He stands beneath the sun, that glorious fated one
Last Line: So we follow but that young chief's guiding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


THE YOUNG SUICIDES IN IRELAND, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is lined
Last Line: Ticking, tipping them forward.
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Suicide; Youth


THELMA, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She walks with me in search of bargains
Last Line: The summer still racing ahead of us, frisky
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


THIS NATIVE LAND, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is a rich and rare land
Last Line: This native land of mine.
Variant Title(s): My Land
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


THREAT OF FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody spoke of the second war
Last Line: Was the toll of the angelus
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


THREE FLOWERS, by NORMAN G. REDDIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One time when walking down a lane
Last Line: Though all the world should fall
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


THREE GRAINS OF CORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother
Last Line: Mother! Dear mother! Ere I die, %give me three grains of corn
Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland


THREE GRAINS OF CORN; THE IRISH FAMINE, by AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother
Last Line: Give me three grains of corn.
Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland; Irish


TIGER LILY, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray are the gardens of our celtic lands
Last Line: Spring after spring.
Subject(s): Ireland; Tiger Lilies; Irish


TINKER WOMAN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking in the january light
Last Line: She carried the bottle home
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


TIPPERARY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let britain boast her british hosts
Last Line: Thomas davis.
Subject(s): Patriotism; Tipperary, Ireland


TIPPERARY, by MARY EVA KELLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Were you ever in sweet tipperary
Last Line: On the plains of tipperary the stranger is like a king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eva; O'doherty, Kevin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Tipperary, Ireland


TIPPERARY: 1. BY OUR OWN JAMES OPPENHEIM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far, / the lineally-measured distance from east
Last Line: But my sky-soaring soul, my myriad-hearted heart is there.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Geography; Oppenheim, James (1882-1932); Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 2. AS THE TRANSLATORS WOULD HAVE INTERLINED IT . . ., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou torquatus, the space to tipperarium
Last Line: My heart at that location is present.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 3. AS THE INTERLINEARS MIGHT TAKE IT FROM XENOPHON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He spoke as follows: (that) it is ten parasangs
Last Line: Exist the vitals of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 4. BY OUR OWN A. E. HOUSMAN, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alass in tipperary / is miles and miles away
Last Line: Above my beating heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Tipperary, Ireland


TIPPERARY: 5. BY OUR OWN EUGENE FIELD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been on many a lengthy trip since that I was
Last Line: There.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Field, Eugene (1850-1895); Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there
Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements


TO A DESPONDENT NATIONALIST, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore wail you for the harp? Is it broken?
Last Line: Freedom, knowledge, independence, truth, and light!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


TO A SHADE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you have revisited the town, thin shade
Last Line: Away, away! You are safer in the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Ireland - Rebellions; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Supernatural


TO AUSTIN CLARKE, by EUGENE J. MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: William butler yeats is dead
Last Line: Crying before they are hurt, but brave'
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, the poet william yeats
Last Line: When all is ruin once again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish


TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, the poet william yeats
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish


TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, the poet william yeats
Last Line: From fashion or an empty mind, %what referty built and stone designed
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


TO GOD AND IRELAND TRUE, by ELLEN O'LEARY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit beside my darling's grave
Last Line: To god, to ireland, and to you!
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


TO IRELAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear witness, erin! When thine injured isle
Last Line: When thou wert not, which shall be when thou perishest.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TO IRELAND, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My country, wounded to the heart
Last Line: Loved ireland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know, that I would accounted be
Last Line: After the red-rose-bordered hem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Apologia Addressed To Ireland In The Coming Days
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TO KILBARRON CASTLE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Broad, blue, and deep, the bay of donegal
Last Line: The churlish thistles thrive, and the dull graveyard grass.
Subject(s): Kilbarron Castle, Ireland


TO LADIES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sign in a pub in mullingar
Last Line: Ladies must not have children in the bar
Subject(s): Children; Drinks And Drinking; Ireland; Mothers


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


TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days!
Last Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Legends, Irish; Roses; Irish


TO-DAY, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has the line of the patriots ended
Last Line: With the passionate splendours of youth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


TOMORROW, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her, that yer honor was spakin' to? Whin, yet honor? Last year
Last Line: Yer honor 'ill give me a thrifle to dhrink yer health in potheen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


TONE'S GRAVE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave
Last Line: Tili irelani, a nation, can euild him a tomb.
Subject(s): Graves; Ireland - Rebellions; Nationalism - Ireland; Tone, Theobald Wolfe (1763-1798); Tombs; Tombstones


TOWN OF PASSAGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, passage town is of great renown
Subject(s): Passage, Ireland


TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They sailed from cobh with a skeletal crew
Last Line: Another qe2
Subject(s): Cobh, Ireland; Immigrants; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping; Travel


TREE OF LIBERTY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sons of hibernia, attend to my song
Last Line: Derry down, down, traitors bow down
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 1. THE SAILING OF THE SWALLOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the middle music of the spring
Last Line: And their four lips became one burning mouth.
Subject(s): God; Ireland; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Spring; Storms; Irish


TULIP FIELDS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It could be the netherlands here
Last Line: That follow the tractor-plough, %like odd white tulips %in seas of red
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


TURLOUGH MACSWEENEY, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A health to you, piper
Last Line: A health to you, piper!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Irish


TWENTY MEN FROM DUBLIN TOWN, by ARTHUR GRIFFITH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Eire slainte geal go brath!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


TWO PAINTINGS BY SIDNEY NOLAN: 1. AFTER GLENROWAN SIEGE, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ned wounded kelly in his tin hat
Last Line: A wooden stake through the heart of the world
Subject(s): Ireland; Paintings And Painters


TWO TRIPS TO IRELAND, by DAVID POLLOCK YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well-eye, gazing at daytime stars
Last Line: By a man so trapped in time
Subject(s): Hotels; Ireland; Roads; Travel


ULF IN IRELAND, by CHARLES DE KAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What then, what if my lips do burn
Last Line: Horror, horror!
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


UNA BAWN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Una bawn, the days are long,
Last Line: Una bawn, and I must bide.
Subject(s): Ireland; Irish


UNDER THE EYES, by TOM PAULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its retributions work like clockwork
Last Line: A rain of turds; a pair of eyes; the sky and tears
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland


UNION, by SLIABH CUILINN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did they pass the union?
Last Line: Alone our hearts shall blind!
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How should the world be luckier if this house
Last Line: Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Upon A Threatened House
Subject(s): Ireland – Rebellions


VERNAL EQUINOX, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While all the while I anguish
Last Line: Birth was like that, a blue beginning
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


VIKING DUBLIN: TRIAL PIECES, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It could be a jaw-bone %or a rib or a portion cut
Last Line: Lightly as pampooties %over the skull-capped ground
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Vikings


VOICES FROM THE OLD WORLD: THE FAMINE OF 1847, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice from out the highlands
Last Line: When perish erin's daughters?
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Famine; Ireland - Famine; Scotland


VORTIGREN: EPILOGUE, by ROBERT MERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye solemn critics! Wheresoe'er you're seated
Last Line: A kind protector and a gen'rous friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca
Subject(s): Dramatists; Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


WANDERER OF CONNAUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Norah, when wandering afar from the shade
Last Line: With my sires who have gone to the mansions of peace?
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Connaught, Ireland; Wandering & Wanderers


WAR SONG. REMEMBER THE GLORIES OF BRIEN THE BRAVE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember the glories of brien the brave
Last Line: To find that they fell there in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Brian Boru, King Of Ireland (941-1014); Munster, Ireland


WARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dublin is gridlocked, cork crippled
Last Line: There's a loose cow on the road.
Subject(s): Cows; Dublin, Ireland; Traffic


WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin
Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel


WAYCONNELL TOWER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tangling wealth by june amassed
Last Line: To-morrow's sun arises new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Wayconnell, Ireland


WE MUST NOT FAIL, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We must not fail, we must not fail
Last Line: We shall not fail -- we shall not fail!
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


WE TAKE OUR CHILDREN TO IRELAND, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What will they remember best? The barbed wire
Last Line: Gorgeous, they replied. And meant it
Subject(s): Ireland


WEARING OF THE GREEN, by DION BOUCICAULT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh then paddy dear, and did you hear the news that's goin' around?
Last Line: My native land, I cannot stand, for wearing of the green
Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


WEEP! GALLIA WEEP!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weep! Gallia weep! In sorrow droop thy head
Last Line: And make thy monument each patriot's heart
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


WELL O' THE WORLD'S END, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who go ye seeking, seeking, seeking
Last Line: That nigh it I may rest awhile, and after fall asleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Ireland


WEST OF BLUE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone said you just got tired
Last Line: Full of all your empty things
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


WHEN GRANDA LEFT, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had never seen him like that before
Last Line: As if granda himself had come back
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would give fine weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Irish Catholic Church; Nationalism - Ireland


WHEN SOUTH WINDS BLOW, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why sits the gentle maiden there
Last Line: "he'll come when south -- when south winds blow!"
Subject(s): Skellig, Ireland


WHO WILL SHOW US ANY GOOD?, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful ireland! Who will preach to thee?
Last Line: And ireland springs on the path of the free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


WILLIAM CARLETON; DIED JANUARY 30TH, 1869, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our land has lost a glory! Never more
Last Line: As through triumphal arches, to the tomb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Carleton, William (1794-1869); Ireland; Irish


WILLIAM O KELLY, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not since the gael was sold
Last Line: The topmost blackberry!
Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish


WINTER IN IRELAND, by CHARLES BEWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In winter twilights
Last Line: Christ walks again.
Subject(s): Ireland; Oxford University; Irish


WOLFE TONE, by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first storm of winter blew high, blew high
Last Line: This grave is forgotten by irishmen
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother
Last Line: Quiet women and their heavy gods
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents


WORK WHILE IT IS CALLED TO-DAY, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No man hath hired us' - strong hands drooping
Last Line: Lies hid in the great sealed book of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland


WREN HUNTING, by THOMAS RABBITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up here, the tumbled ancestral house proves the irish are mad
Last Line: Nor does she care that she be worth the penny paid tomorrow
Subject(s): Ireland


WRITTEN AFTER VISITING A TOMB NEAR WOODSTOCK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood where the lip of song lay low
Last Line: Round the dark chamber where genius lies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Graves; Woodstock, Ireland; Tombs; Tombstones


WRITTEN BY THE BARROW SIDE, WHERE SHE WAS SENT TO WASH LINEN, by ELLEN TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy banks, o barrow, sure must be
Last Line: Yes, then I'd hope for peace.
Subject(s): Barrow, River, Ireland


WRITTEN IN IRELAND, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest would be ierne's isle
Last Line: Wert thou as good as great.
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips


WRITTEN ON THE SENSE OF ISOLATION IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND, by ROBERT GREACEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The irish faults are not so very new
Subject(s): Ireland


YEAR OF SORROW: 1849, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, through god's high will, and grace
Variant Title(s): Sprin
Subject(s): Ireland


YOUNG MATRON DANCES FREE OF THE ISLAND, by MARY O'MALLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One tuesday in november she finished the wash-up
Last Line: And she waltzed over the cliff, haloing beautifully down
Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland; Suicide


YOUNG WOLFE TONE, by FELIMY FIDILEIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where on the skyline mucklish lies
Last Line: That honour young wolfe tone
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions


YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you want to find your way through dublin
Last Line: The manic street will part for you
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Explorers; Sky; Streets