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Celebrated for their unique poetic sensibility and wondrous way with words, the Irish have produced a rich heritage of great poetry. This volume attests to the Irish love of language, spanning fourteen centuries of literary history and featuring works by more than 60 of the Emerald Isles most distinguished poets.
This comprehensive selection of well-known poems by distinguished writers includes Verses for Women Who Cry Apples, etc. by Jonathan Swift; J. Sheridan LeFanus A Drunkards Address to a Bottle of Whiskey; William Allinghams Four Ducks on a Pond; Requiescat by Oscar Wilde; W. B. Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus and Easter 1916; Forgiveness by A. E.; The Hills of Cualann by Joseph Campbell; An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum; In the Poppy Field by James Stephens; and many others.
Also included is a generous sampling of memorable works by lesser known poets: Lament for Thomas Davis by Samuel Ferguson; Dion Boucicaults The Wearing of the Green; The Wee Lassies First Luve by G. F. Savage-Armstrong; Francis A. Fahys Little Mary Cassidy; Sidney Royse Lysaghts The Penalty of Love; and many more, including the anonymous A Confession of Forgiveness, Pearl of the White Breast, and Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye.
Students, teachers, and all poetry lovers will cherish this fine collection and its diverse cross-section of Irish poetry, from the seventh century to modern times.
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Padraic Colum: An Old Woman of the Roads from The Dublin Book of Irish Verse, 17281909 (edited by John Cooke), Dublin and London, 1909. Reprinted with the kind permission of Maire Colum OSullivan.
Francis A. Fahy: Little Mary Cassidy from The Book of Irish Poetry (edited by Alfred Perceval Graves), Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1915. Reprinted with the kind permission of the Francis Fahy Society (www.kinvara.com/francisfahy).
Alfred Perceval Graves: The Song of the Ghost from Anthology of Irish Verse (edited by Padraic Colum), Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922; The Irish Spinning-Wheel from The Dublin Book of Irish Verse, 17281909 (edited by John Cooke), Dublin and London, 1909. Both poems are reprinted with the kind permission of Richard Perceval Graves.
James Stephens: In the Poppy Field from Irish Poets of To-Day, An Anthology (compiled by L. DO. Walters), T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., London, 1921; The Whisperer and The Shell from The Dublin Book of Irish Verse, 17281909 (edited by John Cooke), Dublin and London, 1909. All are reprinted with the kind permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of James Stephens.
William Butler Yeats: Down by the Salley Gardens from Yeats Crossways (1889) as published in Poems by Unwin, London, 1895; The Ballad of Father Gilligan and To Ireland in the Coming Times from Yeats Rose (1893) as published in Poems by Unwin, London, 1895; The Host of the Air and The Song of Wandering Aengus from Yeats The Wind Among the Reeds (second edition) as published by Elkin Mathews, London, 1899; September 1913 from Yeats Responsibilities: Poems and a Play as published by The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1914; In Memory of Major Robert Gregory and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death from Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) as published in Later Poems by Macmillan and Co., London, 1922; Easter 1916 and The Second Coming from Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) as published in Later Poems by Macmillan and Co., London, 1922. All are reprinted with the kind permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.
THRIFT EDITIONSA SHROPSHIRE LAD, A. E. Housman. 64pp. 26468-8 $1.00
LYRIC POEMS, John Keats. 80pp. 26871-3 $1.00
GUNGA DIN AND OTHER FAVORITE POEMS, Rudyard Kipling. 80pp. 26471-8 $1.00
THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS, Vachel Lindsay. 96pp. 27272-9 $1.50
EVANGELINE AND OTHER POEMS, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 64pp. 28255-4 $1.00
FAVORITE POEMS, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 96pp. 27273-7 $1.00
TO HIS COY MISTRESS AND OTHER POEMS, Andrew Marvell. 64pp. 29544-3 $1.00
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, Edgar Lee Masters. 144pp. 27275-3 $1.50
RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS, Edna St. Vincent Millay 64pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 26873-X $1.00
SELECTED POEMS, John Milton. 128pp. 27554-X $1.50
CIVIL WAR POETRY: An Anthology, Paul Negri (ed.). 128pp. 29883-3 $1.50
ENGLISH VICTORIAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, Paul Negri (ed.). 256pp. 40425-0 $2.00
GREAT SONNETS, Paul Negri (ed.). 96pp. 28052-7 $1.00
THE RAVEN AND OTHER FAVORITE POEMS, Edgar Allan Poe. 64pp. 26685-0 $1.00
ESSAY ON MAN AND OTHER POEMS, Alexander Pope. 128pp. 28053-5 $1.50
EARLY POEMS, Ezra Pound. 80pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 28745-9 $1.00
GREAT POEMS BY AMERICAN WOMEN: An Anthology, Susan L. Rattiner (ed.). 224pp. (Available in U.S. only) 40164-2 $2.00
LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE AND OTHER POEMS, James Whitcomb Riley. 80pp. 28260-0 $1.00
GOBLIN MARKET AND OTHER POEMS, Christina Rossetti. 64pp. 28055-1 $1.00
CHICAGO POEMS, Carl Sandburg. 80pp. 28057-8 $1.00
THE SHOOTING OF DAN MCGREW AND OTHER POEMS, Robert Service. 96pp. (Available in U.S. only) 27556-6 $1.50
COMPLETE SONNETS, William Shakespeare. 80pp. 26686-9 $1.00
SELECTED POEMS, Percy Bysshe Shelley. 128pp. 27558-2 $1.50
AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY: An Anthology, 17731930, Joan R. Sherman (ed.). 96pp. 29604-0 $1.00
100 BEST-LOVED POEMS, Philip Smith (ed.). 96pp. 28553-7 $1.00
NATIVE AMERICAN SONGS AND POEMS: An Anthology, Brian Swann (ed.). 64pp. 29450-1 $1.00
SELECTED POEMS, Alfred Lord Tennyson. 112pp. 27282-6 $1.50
AENEID, Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro). 256pp. 28749-1 $2.00
CHRISTMAS CAROLS: COMPLETE VERSES, Shane Weller (ed.). 64pp. 27397-0 $1.00
GREAT LOVE POEMS, Shane Weller (ed.). 128pp. 27284-2 $1.00
CIVIL WAR POETRY AND PROSE, Walt Whitman. 96pp. 28507-3 $1.00
SELECTED POEMS, Walt Whitman. 128pp. 26878-0 $1.00
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL AND OTHER POEMS, Oscar Wilde. 64pp. 27072-6 $1.00
EARLY POEMS, William Carlos Williams. 64pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 29294-0 $1.00
FAVORITE POEMS, William Wordsworth. 80pp. 27073-4 $1.00
WORLD WAR ONE BRITISH POETS: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and Others, Candace Ward (ed.). (Available in U.S. only.) 29568-0 $1.00
EARLY POEMS, William Butler Yeats. 128pp. 27808-5 $1.50
EASTER, 1916 AND OTHER POEMS, William Butler Yeats. 80pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 29771-3 $1.00
FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS, Edwin A. Abbott. 96pp. 27263-X $1.00
SHORT STORIES, Louisa May Alcott. 64pp. 29063-8 $1.00
WINESBURG, OHIO, Sherwood Anderson. 160pp. 28269-4 $2.00
PERSUASION, Jane Austen. 224pp. 29555-9 $2.00
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen. 272pp. 28473-5 $2.00
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen. 272pp. 29049-2 $2.00
LOOKING BACKWARD, Edward Bellamy. 160pp. 29038-7 $2.00
BEOWULF, Beowulf (trans. by R. K. Gordon). 64pp. 27264-8 $1.00
CIVIL WAR STORIES, Ambrose Bierce. 128pp. 28038-1 $1.00
THE MOONLIT ROAD AND OTHER GHOST AND HORROR STORIES, Ambrose Bierce (John Grafton, ed.) 96pp. 40056-5 $1.00
WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Bront. 256pp. 29256-8 $2.00
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, John Buchan. 96pp. 28201-5 $1.50
TARZAN OF THE APES, Edgar Rice Burroughs. 224pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 29570-2 $2.00
ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, Lewis Carroll. 96pp. 27543-4 $1.00
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, Lewis Carroll. 128pp. 40878-7 $1.50
MY ANTONIA, Willa Cather. 176pp. 28240-6 $2.00
O PIONEERS!, Willa Cather. 128pp. 27785-2 $1.00
PAULS CASE AND OTHER STORIES, Willa Cather. 64pp. 29057-3 $1.00
FIVE GREAT SHORT STORIES, Anton Chekhov. 96pp. 26463-7 $1.00
TALES OF CONJURE AND THE COLOR LINE, Charles Waddell Chesnutt. 128pp. 40426-9 $1.50
FAVORITE FATHER BROWN STORIES, G. K. Chesterton. 96pp. 27545-0 $1.00
THE AWAKENING, Kate Chopin. 128pp. 27786-0 $1.00
A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS AND OTHER STORIES, Kate Chopin. 64pp. 29264-9 $1.00
HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad. 80pp. 26464-5 $1.00
LORD JIM, Joseph Conrad. 256pp. 40650-4 $2.00
THE SECRET SHARER AND OTHER STORIES, Joseph Conrad. 128pp. 27546-9 $1.00
THE LITTLE REGIMENT AND OTHER CIVIL WAR STORIES, Stephen Crane. 80pp. 29557-5 $1.00
THE OPEN BOAT AND OTHER STORIES, Stephen Crane. 128pp. 27547-7 $1.50
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, Stephen Crane. 112pp. 26465-3 $1.00
MOLL FLANDERS, Daniel Defoe. 256pp. 29093-X $2.00
ROBINSON CRUSOE, Daniel Defoe. 288pp. 40427-7 $2.00
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens. 80pp. 26865-9 $1.00
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH AND OTHER CHRISTMAS STORIES, Charles Dickens. 128pp. 28039-X $1.00
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