James Clarence Mangan His Selected Poems

seeing mood ever upon you, may you read it gently Editors Note MANY th anks are due the Reverend J. H. Gavin of S. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, for the loan of books, prints, and manuscripts, while this edition of Mangan was in progress. For other favors, and much general furtherance, warm acknowledgments are tendered to the Reverend William Hayes Ward, D. D. to Mr. Theodore Koc, Esq., of Cornell University Library Mr. Theodor Guelich of Burlington, Iowa Messrs. Robert Waters of Linden, and Francis Nugent of Peabody, Massachusetts Dr. J. J. Mangan of Lynn Mr. D. J. ODonoghue and Miss Dora Sigerson, now Mrs. Clement Shorter, who, besides, drew the portrait used as frontispiece. Owing to the courteous permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin Co., the Editor is able to reprint the Study, contributed some five years ago to The Atlantic Montbb, and since greatly revised and enlarged. Auburndale, Massachusetts, January, I897. Table of Contents Page James Clarence Mangan a Study 3 My Dark Rosaleen . . Prince Aldfrids Itinerary through Ireland . Kinkora . . St. Patricks Hymn before Tara . 0 Dalys Keen for 0 Neill . The Fair Hills of Eir6, 0 . The Geraldine S Daughter . A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald Ellen Bawn . . O7Husseys Ode to The Maguire . A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell . A Love Song . A Lullaby . The Expedition and Death of King Dathy g The Woman of Three Cows . . A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield, Lord Lucan ix X TABLE OF CONTENTS The Ruins of Donegal Castle . Sancta Opera Domini . . . Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan . . Welcome to the Prince . . The Song of Gladness . . The Dream of John Mac Donnell . The Sorrows of Innisfail . Leather Away with the Wattle, O Lament for Banba . . The Dawning of the Day . Dirge for The 0 Sullivan Beare . The Maid of Orleans . The Fisherman . Mignons Song . Nature More than Science . The Dying Flower . . Gone in the Wind . . The Glaive Song . Alexander the Great and the Tree Strew the Way with Flowers . The Erl-King s Daughter . . The Grave, the Grave . A Song . . . To Ludwig Uhland . . The Poets Consolation . . The Love-Adieu . . TABLE OF CONTENTS xi A Drinking-Song Swabian Popular Song . Holiness to the Lord . The Ride around the Parapet My Home . . The Fairies Passage . The Last Words of Al-Hassan And Then no More . . Mother and Son . Two Sonnets from Filicaja . The Mariners Bride To Don Rodrigo . Dies Irae . . Page . 222 . 223 . 225 . 226 234 235 . 238 . 241 . 242 244 245 247 . 248 I. Those purporting to be Tranrlations from the Oriental Languager The Karamanian Exile The Wail and Warning of the Three Khalandeers Relic of Prince Bayazeed . . . Advice against Travel . Adams Oath . Night is Nearing . To Mihri . . . . The City of Truth . . An Epitaph . . . D Good Counsel . . . a A Ghazel . . . . xii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page The Time of the Roses . . 270 The Time Ere the Roses were Blowing . . 273 To Amine, on seeing her About to veil her Mirror 275 The Howling Song of A1 Mohara . . 275 Sayings and Proverbs . . . 278 Lament from the Farewell-book of Ahi . 281 Love . . . . 282 Trust not the World, nor Time . . . 283 Relic of Servi . . . . 286 Jealousy . . . . . . . 286 The World a Ghazel . 288 The Time of the Barmecides . . 289 11...