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Dánta na hÉireann
(poems composed in Irish)

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       A Brigid’s Girdle

      A Call

      A Child in Prison    (Under Sorrow's Sign)

      A Christmas Childhood

      A Churchman Speaks

      A Coat

      A Complete Account of the Various Colonizations of Ireland as Delivered by the Sage Fintan

      A Cradle Song

      A Dream

      A Drinking Song

      A Faery Song

      A Farewell to English

      Affairs of State

      A First Time

      A Grafted Tongue

      A Hedge Schoolmaster

      A Lamentation for the death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald

      A Little Boy in the Morning

      A Lover's Quarrel among the Fairies

      A Man Young And Old

      A Nest In A Wall

      A Nun Takes The Veil

      A Prayer for my Daughter

      A Terrible Beauty

     A View of God & The Devil    [extract]

      A Warning To Conquerers                                                                                                                                             above

      A White Rose

      Achill

      Aftermath

      All Legendary Obstacles

      All You Need To Put On The Poster Nowadays

      Amhrán na mBréag    [The Song of Lies]

      An Irish Childhood in England: 1951

      An Old Woman Of The Roads

      An Ulster Prophesy

      Anna Liffey

     Another September

      Atlantic Ocean, The

      Avenue, The

     Awakening Of Dermuid, The
 

 above

     Babel

     Ballad of Wandering Aengus, The

      Battle of Aughrim, The    [extract]

      Before The World Was Made

      Begin

      Between the Jigs and the Reels

      Bewley's Oriental Cafe, Westmoreland Street

      Black Peadar

      Blessing

      Bogland

      Bog Royal

      Bonny Portmore

      Broken Silence

      Brazen Image

      Brewer's Man, The

      Brídín Vesey

      Bright After Dark

      Brigid’s Girdle, A

      Bubble, The

      Butcher's Dozen
 

 above

      Canadian Pacific

      Cave

      Carrigskeewaun

      Carrying the Songs

      Casualty

      Cat

      Céili

      Celts, The

      Child

      Child Burial

      Child in Prison, A    (Under Sorrow's Sign)

      Child Of Our Time

     Chinese Restaurant in Portrush, The

     Christmas Childhood, A

     Churchman Speaks, A

      Cider

     Coat, A

      Cois na Teineadh

      Colmcille

      Columcille's Greeting to Ireland    [translation]

      Coole Park And Ballylee

      Coolun, The

      Country Matters

      Crossing

     Cradle Song, A

      Cure At Troy, The     [extract]

      Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop

      Cuba

      Cusheen Loo
 

 above

      Danny

      Daphne With Her Thighs In Bark

      Dark Rosaleen     [Sr Anne Therese Dillen]

      Dark Rosaleen     [James Clarence Mangan]

      Day Kerry Became Dublin, The

      Dead

      Dead at Clonmacnoise, The

      Death of a Naturalist

      Death Of An Irishwoman

      Death of a Queen

      Death Will Come

      Deirdre's Lament for the Sons of Usnagh

      Detour

      Dharmakaya (for Thom McGinty)

      Difficulty That Is Marriage, The

      Digging

      Doubletake

      Dream, A

      Dreams     [Cecil Frances Alexander]

      Dreams     [Michael Longley]

      Drinking Song, A

      Dublin

      Dublin Made Me
 

 above

       Early Purges, The

      Earth and Man, The

      Easter 1916

      Elegy for Minor Poets

      Emigrant Irish, The

      Emily Dickinson

      Epic
 

 above

       Faeries, The

      Faerie's Child, The

      Faery Ride, The

      Faery Song,  A

      Fairy Child, The

      Fairies’ Passage, The

      Fairy Host, The

      Fairy Lover, The

      Fairy Nurse, The

      Fairy Thorn, The

      Fairy Well Of Lagnanay, The

      Fairy Workers

      Fall, The

      Famine Year, The    (The Stricken Land)

      Farewell to English, A

      Fisherman, The

      Father And Son

      Fever

      Fields of Athenry, The

      First Invasion of Ireland, The

      First Time, A

      Folk Tale

      Forge, The

      For Rita With Love

      For the Hill Mother
 

 above

       Gaeltacht

      Geranium, The

      Ghost Town

      Ghosts of Omagh, The

      Girl in The Lending Library, The

      Give Me Three Grains Of Corn, Mother

      Glanmore Sonnets (for Ann Saddlemeyer) - X.

      Go A Little Sane

      Going Home To Mayo, Winter, 1949

      Gombeen Man, The

      Good, The

      Grafted Tongue, A

      Grandmother, Gesture
 

 above

      Half Door, The   (Dark eyes, wonderful, strange and dear)

      Harp of Aengus, The

      Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls, The

      Harvest-Home    (The Joy of Childhood)      [excerpt]

      Headstone, The

     Heavenly Banquet, The      [Ascribed to Saint Brigid]

     Hedge Schoolmaster, A

      Henry Street Mar Shompla

      Here My Books Go

      Here's To The Maiden Of Bashful Fifteen

      He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

      Hilda

      Hosting of the Sidhe, The

      Homecoming

      Host Of The Air, The

      Housewife's Testament, The

      Hunt, The

      Hussa Tha Measg Na Realtan More
 

 above

       I Am the Mountainy Singer

      I Declare To God

      If We Forget the Fairies  (To Margaret)

      I Just Wondered

      Impressions I. Les Silhouettes

      In Carradore Churchyard

      Infinite, The

      In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge

      In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984

      In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz

      In Memory of My Mother

      In Memory: The Miami Showband - Massacred 31 July 1975

      Innocence

      Inscription for a Headstone

      Insomnia

      Into The Twilight

      I’r Hen Iaith A’i Chaneuon

      Irish

      Irish Compliment

      Irish Street Scene, With Lovers

      I Shall Not Die   (O'Connor)      [translation]

      I Shall Not Die for Thee   (Colum)      [translation]

      I Shall Not Die for Thee   (Hyde)      [translation]

      Island, The

      Islandman

      Island Musician Going Home

      I Think This Is The Very Best Thing That It Does

      Itinerant Singing Girl, The

      Itinerary

      It Is A Month

      I whispered my great sorrow...

      I Will Not Die For You   (Kinsella)      [translation]

 

 above

       Janice

      Joy of Childhood, The     (From: Harvest-Home)      [excerpt]
 

 above

      Kerry Christmas Carol, The

     Knocklong
 

 above

     Laburnum

      L’Adieu

      Lake Isle of Innisfree, The

     Lament for Arthur O'Leary, The

      Lamentation for the death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald

      Lament for Thomas MacDonagh

      Lark In The Clear Air, The

      Leannan Si

      Lent

      Lepracaun,  Or Fairy Shoemaker, The

      Leprehaun, The

      Liadan Laments Cuirithir

      Libertine, The

      Life Class

      Lightenings VIII

      Limericks

      Lines Of Leaving

      Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin, 'Erected to the Memory of Mrs Dermot O'Brian'

      Linen Industry, The

      Listen, This Is The Noise Of Myth

      Little Boy in the Morning, A

      Little Good Folk, The

      Little Lad of the Tricks

      Lost Heifer, The

      Lost Ones, The

      Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart, The

      Lover's Quarrel among the Fairies, A
 

 above

      Magic Lake, The

      Maids Of Elfin-Mere, The

      Making Love Outside Áras An Uachtaráin

      Man Sleeping

      Man Whose Name Was Tom-and-Ann, The

      Man Who Went Absent From The Native Literature, The

      Man Young And Old, A

      Marban, A Hermit, Speaks

      Margaret Thatcher Joins IRA

      Master And Servant

      Memory of my Father

      Mermaid, The

      Mid-Term Break

      Mise Éire

      Mockingbird At Winter Solstice

      Mor Of Cloyne

      Mossbawn - 1.  Sunlight

      Mossbawn - 2.  The Seed Cutters

      Mother of the Groom

      Mrs Sweeney

      My Lagan Love

      My Son, Forsake Your Art

      my way is in the sand flowing

      Mysteries of the Home:  1. Well

      Mysteries of the Home:  2. Queen

      Mysteries of the Home:  3. Hermit

     Mysteries of the Home:  4. King

      Mysteries of the Home:  5. Seed
 

 above

     Nest In A Wall, A

      Neutrality

      Niamh

      Night

      Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

      No Mean City

      No Second Troy

     Nora Críona

     Nun Takes The Veil, A
 

 above

      O Bonny Portmore

      Ode

      Old Woman Of The Roads, An

      One of the Boys

      On Holiday

      Open Rose

      Others, The

      Otter, The

      Our Lady of Ardboe

      Outlaw of Loch Lene, The

      O You Among Women
 

 above

      Parnell to Queenie - 2. Paris    [translation]

      Passing of the Shee, The

      Pattern, The

      Peace     [Patrick Kavanagh]

      Peace    [Michael Longley]

      Peacetime

      Penal Law

      Peninsula, The

      Personal Helicon

      Pillow Talk

     Pleasant Joys of Brotherhood, The

     Plougher, The

      Ploughman, The

      Poem for Frances Harvey

      Pomegranate, The                                                                                                                                    above

      Poplar Memory

      Postscript

      Pot Burial

      Prayer Before Birth

     Prayer for my Daughter, A

      Preface to a Love Poem

      Prelude

      Punishment

 

 above

      Quest, The

 

 above

      Raglan Road

      Rain Stick, The

      Ram's Horn, The

      Rebel, The

      Remembering Malibu

      Renewal By Her Element

      Retro Creation

      Return

      Rosroe, 1955

      Roundelay

      Rune

 

 above

      Sailing To Byzantium

      Same Gesture, The

      Sea Dawn

      Second Coming, The

      Secret Of Thereness, The

      Sedges, The    (I whispered my great sorrow)

      Seed Cutters, The  [Mossbawn - 2.]

      September 1913

      Shadow People, The

      She Walked Unaware

      Shell, The

      Skellig Michael                                                                                                                                    above

      Skunk, The

      Sleep Song Of Grainne Over Dermuid, The       [translation]

      Snow

      Snowbird

      Song    [Seamus Heaney]

      Song    (O Mighty, Melancholy Wind)

      Song Of Fionnuala, The

     Song of the Ghost, The

     Song of the Old Mother, The

      Sonnet to Liberty

     Spell-Struck, The

     Spoonbait, The

      Spring Song

      Spraying the Potatoes

      Stargazing for Feminists

     Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks, The

     Stolen Child, The

     Stone of the Tourist, The

      Stormpetrel

      Stricken Land, The    (The Famine Year )

     Subjection of Women, The

      Summer

      Sunlight    [Mossbawn - 1.]

      Supernatural Songs

      Surplus Population 1

      Surplus Population 2

      Swans Mating

      Sweeney's Last Poem

 

 above

     Terrible Beauty, A

     Tea on the 5th of July

      10:30 Mass, June 16, 1985

      Terms of Endearment

      That The Science Of Cartography Is Limited

      The Atlantic Ocean

      The Avenue

      The Awakening Of Dermuid

      The Ballad of Wandering Aengus

      The Battle of Aughrim     [excerpt]

      The Brewer's Man

      The Bubble

      The Cabinet Table 

     The Cave

      The Celts

      The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush

      The Coolun

      The Cure At Troy         [extract]

      The Day Kerry Became Dublin

     The Dead at Clonmacnoise

      The Difficulty That Is Marriage

      The Early Purges

      The Earth and Man                                                                                                                                          above

      The Emigrant Irish

      The Faeries

      The Faerie's Child

      The Fairies’ Passage

      The Fairy Child

      The Fairy Host

      The Fairy Lover

      The Faery Ride

      The Fairy Nurse

      The Fairy Thorn

      The Fairy Well Of Lagnanay

      The Fall

      The Famine Year    (The Stricken Land)

      The Fields of Athenry

      The First Invasion of Ireland

      The Fisherman

      The Flower Master

      The Folly of Being Comforted

      The Forge                                                                                                                                                        above

      The Geranium

      The Ghosts of Omagh

      The Girl in The Lending Library

      The Gombeen Man

      The Good

      The Half Door   (Dark eyes, wonderful, strange and dear)

      The Harp of Aengus

      The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls

      The Headstone

      The Heavenly Banquet      [Ascribed to Saint Brigid]

      The Hosting of the Sidhe

      The Host Of The Air

      The Housewife's Testament

      The Hunt

      The Infinite

      The Island

      The Itinerant Singing Girl

      The Joy of Childhood     (From: Harvest-Home)      [excerpt]

      The Kerry Christmas Carol

      The Kilfenora Teaboy

      The Lake Isle of Innisfree

      The Lament for Arthur O'Leary

      The Lark In The Clear Air                                          ;                                                                               above

      The Lepracaun,  Or Fairy Shoemaker

      The Leprehaun

      The Libertine

      The Linen Industry

      The Little Good Folk

      The Lost Heifer

      The Lost Ones

      The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart

      The Magic Lake

      The Maids Of Elfin-Mere

      The Man Whose Name Was Tom-and-Ann

      The Man Who Went Absent From The Native Literature

      The Mermaid

      The Others

      The Otter

      The Outlaw of Loch Lene

      The Passing of the Shee

      The Pattern

      The Peninsula

     The Pleasant Joys of Brotherhood

      The Plougher

      The Ploughman

      The Pomegranate                                                                                                                                           above

      The Quest

      The Rain Stick

      The Ram's Horn

      The Rebel

      The Same Gesture

      The Second Coming

      The Secret Of Thereness

      The Sedges   (I whispered my great sorrow)

      The Seed Cutters    [Mossbawn - 2.]

      The Shadow People

      The Shell

      The Skunk

      The Sleep Song Of Grainne Over Dermuid       [translation]

      The Song Of Fionnuala

      The Song of the Ghost

      The Spoonbait

     The Song of the Old Mother                                                                                                         above

      The Spell-Struck

      The Standing Army

      The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks

      The Stolen Child

      The Stone of the Tourist

      The Stricken Land    (The Famine Year )

      The Subjection of Women

      The Tollund Man

      The Underground

      The Watcher

      The Well-Beloved

      The West's Asleep

      The Wild Old Wicked Man                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             above

      The Wild Swans at Coole

      The Woman Of Beare

      They Say the Butterfly is the Hardest Stroke

      Tinker's Wife

      To A Blackbird

      To A Hedgehog

      To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no

      To A Wealthy Man

      To Grasp The Nettle

      To Margaret    (If we forget the Fairies)

      To the Lianhaun Shee

     Tollund Man, The

      Traditions

      Turf
 

 above

     Ulster Prophesy, An

     Under Ben Bulben

      Under Sorrow's Sign    (A Child in Prison)

      Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation

 

 above

     View of God & The Devil,  A    [extract]

       Verses

      Vertigo

 

 above

      Warning To Conquerers, A

     Watcher, The

      Weile Weile Waile (Down By The River Saile)

     Welcome

      Well-Beloved, The

      West's Asleep, The

      Western Landscape

      What Tomas An Buile Said In a Pub

      When You Are Old

      'When you left the city you carried...'

      Where Else Would You Get It

     White Rose, A

      Wife to Husband

      Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail

      Wild Affair

      Wild Swans at Coole, The

      Woman Of Beare, The

      Wonderful Poppies of Flanders

      Words Of Love

      Wouldn’t I?

      Wounds
 

 above

      Yeats in Civil War

      Ylang-Ylang

      Your Own Place
 

 above

      Zugswang

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