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Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry

by Kuno Meyer

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  1. 1Dedication — Introduction
  2. 2Myth and Saga
  3. 3The Sea-god’s Address to Bran
  4. 4The Tryst After Death
  5. 5Deirdre’s Farewell to Scotland
  6. 6Deirdre’s Lament
  7. 7The Hosts of Faery
  8. 8From the Vision of Mac Conglinne
  9. 9Religious Poetry
  10. 10An Even-Song
  11. 11Patrick’s Blessing on Munster
  12. 12The Hermit’s Song
  13. 13A Prayer to the Virgin
  14. 14Eve’s Lament
  15. 15On the Flightiness of Thought
  16. 16To Crinog
  17. 17The Devil’s Tribute to Moling
  18. 18Maelisu’s Hymn to the Archangel Michael
  19. 19The Mothers’ Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocents
  20. 20Songs of Nature
  21. 21Song of the Sea
  22. 22Summer Has Come
  23. 23Song of Summer
  24. 24Summer Is Gone
  25. 25A Song of Winter
  26. 26Arran
  27. 27Love Poetry
  28. 28Liadin and Curithir
  29. 29Bardic Poetry
  30. 30The Song of Carroll’s Sword (a.d. 909)
  31. 31Eochaid on the Death of King Aed Mac Domnaill Ua Neill
  32. 32Erard Mac Coisse on the Death of King Malachy II
  33. 33Miscellaneous
  34. 34Colum Cille’s Greeting to Ireland
  35. 35On Angus the Culdee (+ Ca. 830)
  36. 36Colum Cille the Scribe
  37. 37The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare
  38. 38The Deserted Home
  39. 39Cormac Mac Culennain Sang This
  40. 40Alexander the Great
  41. 41Quatrains
  42. 42On a Dead Scholar — The Crucifixion
  43. 43The Pilgrim at Rome — Hospitality
  44. 44The Blackbird · Moling Sang This — The Church Bell in the Night
  45. 45The Viking Terror — From the Triads of Ireland
  46. 46From the Instructions of King Cormac

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