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Lyra Celtica : an Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry m^ 0^. 3)0T gaaggg^g'g'g^g'g'g^^^gg'^^^ gggjggggg^g^^gsgg^gggs ^^ oooooooo ^^ — THE COLLECTED WORKS OF "FIONA MACLEOD" (WILLIAM SHARP) I. Pharais ; The Mountain Lovers. II. The Sin-Eater ; The Washer of the Ford, Etc. III. The Dominion of Dreams ; Under the Dark Star. IV. The Divine Adventure ; lona ; Studies in Spiritual History. V. The Winged Destiny ; Studies in the Spiritual History of the Gael. VI. The Silence of Amor; Where the Forest Murmurs. VII. Poems and Dramas. The Immortal Hour In paper covers. SELECTED WRITINGS OF WILLIAM SHARP I. Poems. II. Studies and Appreciations. III. Papers, Critical and Reminiscent. IV. Literary, Geography, and Travel Sketches. V. Vistas : The Gipsy Christ and other Prose Imaginings. Uniform with above, in two volumes A MEMOIR OF WILLIAM SHARP (FIONA MACLEOD) Compiled by Mrs William Sharp LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "The Celtic Library LYRA CELTICA First Edition ..... 1896 Second Edition (ReHsed and EnloTged) . 1924 LYRA CELTICA AN ANTHOLOGY OF REPRE- SENTATIVE CELTIC POETRY EDITED BY E. A. SHARP AND J. MATTHAY WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES By WILLIAM SHARP ANCIENT IRISH, ALBAN, GAELIC, BRETON, CYMRIC, AND MODERN SCOTTISH AND IRISH CELTIC POETRY EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT 31 GEORGE IV. BRIDGE 1924 4 Ap^ :oT\^ PRINTED IN ORgAT BRITAIH BY OLIVER AND BOTD BDINBUROH CONTENTS a troubled EdeHy rich In throb of heart GEORGE MEREDITH CONTENTS PAGB INTRODUCTION .... xvii ANCIENT IRISH AND SCOTTISH The Mystery of Amergin The Song of Fionn .... Credhe's Lament .... Cuchullin in his Chariot . Deirdrc's Lament for the Sons of Usnach The Lament of Queen Maev The March of the Faerie Host . Vision of a Fair Woman . The Fian Banners .... The Rune of St Patrick . Coiumcille cecenit .... Columcilie fecit .... The Song of Murdoch the Monk Domhnull Mac Fhionnlaidh -. "The Aged Bard's Wish" .... Ossian Sang Fingal and Ros-crana The Night-Song of the Bards . The Death-Song of Ossian ANCIENT CORNISH The Pool of Pilate Merlin the Diviner ...... The Vision of Seth EARLY ARMORICAN The Dance of the Sword The Lord Nana and the Fairy .... Alain the Fox Bran vii viii LYRA CELTICA EARLY CYMRIC AND MEDIEVAL WELSH t-AGB The Soul 67 Llywarc'h Hen The Gorwynion ..... 68 The Tercets of Llywarc'h .... 72 Taliesin Song to the Wind 73 Aneurin Odes of the Months 75 Dafydd ap Gwilym The Summei 78 To the Lark 81 Rhys Goch (of Eryri) To the Fox 82 Rhys Goch ap Rhiccart The Song of the Thrush .... 83 IRISH (MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY) « A.E." Sacrifice . 87 The Great Breath 88 Mystery ....... 89 By the Margin of the Great Deep . 90 The Breath of Light 91 William Allingham ^oiian Harp ...... 92 The Fairies 93 Thomas Boyd To the Lianhaun Shee .... 95 Emily Bronte Remembrance 97 Stopford a. Brooke The Earth and Man 98 Song 99 CONTENTS ix IRISH (MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY)— Continued John K. Casey pack Maire, my Girl ..... loi Gracie Og Machree 103 George Darlev Dirge 104 Aubrey De Vere The Little Black Rose .... 105 Epitaph ....... 106 Francis Fahy Killiney Far Away . • . 107 Sir Samuel Ferguson Cean Dubh Deelish ..... 109 Molly Asthore no The Fair Hills of Ireland . 112 Alfred Percival Graves Herring is King . 113 The Rose of Kenmare . 115 The Song of the Pratee . • 118 Irish Lullaby 120 Gerald Griffin Eileen Aroon i2i Nora Hopper The Dark Man 123 April in Ireland 124 The Wind among the Reeds . , 125 Douglas Hyde My Grief on the Sea .... 126 The Cooleen . 127 The Breedyeen 128 Nelly of the Top-Knots . 130 I shall not Die tor Thee .... 132 Lionel Johnson The Red Wind 133 ToMorfydd 134 ! X LYRA CELTICA IRISH (MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY)— Continued Denis Florence Maccarthy 'agk A Lament 135 James Clarence Mangan The Fair Hills of Eire, O . 137 Dark Rosaleen . 139 The One Mystery 142 Rosa Mulholland The Wild Geese 144 RoDEN NoEl Lament for a Little Child . 146 The Swimmer 148 The Dance 151 From "The Water-Nymph and the Boy" . 152 A Casual Song 154 The Pity of it 155 The Old 157 Charles P. O'Conor Maura Du of Ballyshannon . 158 John Francis O'Donnell A Spinning Song 160 John Boyle O'Reilly A White Rose 161 Arthur O'Shaughnessy The Fountain of Tears . , . , 162 Fanny Parnell After Death 165 T, W. ROLLESTON The Dead at Clonmacnois , . 166 Dora Sigerson Unknown Ideal 167 George Sigerson Mo Cailin Donn 168 CONTENTS xi IRISH (MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY)— Continued John Todhunter PAGB An Irish Love Sons 170 The Sunburst . , . 171 Song 173 Katherine Tynan Winter Sunset 174. Shamrock Song 176 Wild Geese 178 Charles Weekes Dreams . , , 179 Poppies 180 W. B. Yeats They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell 181 The White Birds 183 The Lake of Innisfree . , 184. SCOTO-CELTIC (MIDDLE PERIOD) Prologue to " Gaul" 187 In Hebrid Seas ...... 189 Cumha Ghriogair Mhic Griogair . 191 Drowned 194. Alexander Macdonald The Manning of the Birlinn . , . 195 Angus Mackenzie The Lament of the Deer .... 201 Duncan Ban MacIntyre Ben Dorain 203 The Hill-Water 208 Mary Macleod Song for Macleod of Macleod . aio xii LYRA CELTICA MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SCOTO-CELTIC PAGE Monaltri . 217 An Coineachan—A Highland Lullaby . 218 A Boat Song 219 John Stuart Blackie The Old Soldier of the Gareloch Head . 222 Robert Buchanan Flower of the World .... 224. The Strange Country .... 225 The Dream of the World without Death . 228 The Faery Foster-Mother . 235 Lord Byron When we Two Parted .... 238 Stanzas for Music 239 Colin's Cattle 240 MacCrimmon's Lament ..... 241 Ian Cameron Song ....... 242 John Davidson A Loafer 243 In Romney Marsh ..... 245 Jean Glover O'er the Muir amang the Heather . 246 George Macdonald Song 247 Ronald Campbell Macfie Song 249 William Macdonald A Spring Trouble 250 Amice Macdonell Culloden Moor 251 Alice C. Macdonell The Weaving of the Tartan . 252 CONTENTS xiii MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SCOTO- xlv LYRA CELTICA CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-CELTIC POETS (WALES) George Meredith page Dirge in Woods 283 Outer and Inner ..... 284. Night of Frost in May . 286 Hymn to Colour 289 Sebastian Evans Shadows ....... 292 Ebenezer Jones When the World is Burning . 293 The Hand ...... 294. Emily Davis A Song of Winter 296 Ernest Rhys The Night Ride 297 The House of Hendra .... 298 CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-CELTIC POETS (MANX) T. E. Brown The Childhood of Kitty of the Sherragh Vane 307 Hall Caine Graih my Chree 309 CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-CELTIC POETS (CORNISH) A. T. QuiLLER Couch The Splendid Spur 317 The White Moth 318 Stephen Hawker Featherstone's Doom . 319 Trebarrow . , . 320 RiccARDO Stephens Witch Margaret . • . 321 A Ballad 323 Hell's Piper 325 CONTENTS XV MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY BRETON PAGB The Poor Clerk 331 The Cross by the Way 333 The Secrets of the Clerk 335 Love Song 336 Herv6-NoEl le Breton Hymn to Sleep 338 The Burden of Lost Souls . 340 ViLLIERS DE L'IsLE-AdaM Confession 342 Discouragement ..... 343 Leconte de Lisle The Black Panther 344 The Spring 346 Leo-Kermorvan The Return of Taliesen .... 348 Louis Tiercelin By Menec'hi Shore 351 THE CELTIC FRINGE Bliss Carman Song . 355 The War-Song of Gamelbar . 356 Golden Rowan . 359 A Sea Child 360 Ellen Mackay Hutchinson The Quest ...... 361 Moth Song 362 June 363 Hugh M'Culloch Scent o' Pines 364 Duncan Campbell Scott The Reed-Player 365 Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee The Celtic Cross 366 xvi CONTENTS THE CELTIC FRINGE— Continued. Mary C. G. Byron pack The Tryst of the Night .... 368 Alice E. Gillington The Doom-Bar ..... 369 The Seven Whistlers . 371 Shane Leslie Requiem ....... 373 Padraic Colum An Old Woman of the Roads . 374 A Cradle Song 375 James Stephens The Coolun 376 The Clouds 377 Eleanor Hull The Old Woman of Beare . 378 Thomas Macdonagh " " From a Litany of Beauty . 381 Seosamh Maccathmhaoil I will go with my Father a-ploughing . 383 A Northern Love Song .... 384 Patrick MacGill Fairy Workers 385 Francis Ledwidge The Shadow People 386 My Mother 387 Gordon Bottomley " Lyric from " The Crier by Night . 388 James H. Cousins The Quest 389 Padraic H. Pearse The Fool 390 Lord Dunsany The Return of Song . , . 392 CONTENTS xvii THE CELTIC FRINGE— Continued. Kenneth Macleod fAOB Dance to your Shadow .... 393 Sea Longing 39+ The Reiving Ship 395 Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Land of Heart's Desire .... 396 Ossian's Midsummer Day-Dream . 397 Kishmul's Galley 398 Agnes Mure Mackenzie Aignish on the Machair .... 399 Neil Munro Fingal's Weeping ..... 400 NOTES 403-450 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION IN this foreword I must deal cursorily with a great and fascinating subject, for "Lyra Celtica" has extended beyond its original limits, and Text and Notes have absorbed much of the space which had been allotted for a preliminary dissertation on the distinguishing qualities and characteristics of Celtic literature. For most readers, the interest of an anthology is independent of any introductory remarks : the appeal is in the wares, not in the running commentary of the hawker. For those, however, who have looked for a detailed synthesis, as well as for the Celticists who may have expected an ample, or, at least, a more adequately representative selection from the older Celtic literatures, I have a brief word to say before passing on to the matter in hand. In the first place, this volume is no more than an early, and, in a sense, merely arbitrary, gleaning from an abundant harvest. For "Lyra Celtica" is not so much the introduction to a much larger, more organic, and more adequately representative work, to be called "Anthologia Celtica," but is rather the outcome of the latter, itself culled from a vast mass of material, ancient, mediaeval, and modern.
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