BALLADS, POEMS, AND LYRICS,

Original and Translated.

BY

DENIS FLORENCE M'CARTHY.

PUES PARA CANTAR NACI,
HE DE CANTAR, VIVE DIOS!
                                          CALDERON.

DUBLIN:

JAMES McGLASHAN, 21 D'OLIER-STREET.

1850.

DUBLIN:
Printed at the University Press
BY M. H. GILL.

Dedication.

ETHNA, TO CULL SWEET FLOWERS DIVINELY FAIR,
TO SEEK FOR GEMS OF SUCH TRANSPARENT LIGHT
AS WOULD NOT BE UNWORTHY TO UNITE
ROUND THY FAIR BROW, AND THROUGH THY DARK-BROWN HAIR,
I WOULD THAT I HAD WINGS TO CLEAVE THE AIR,
IN SEARCH OF SOME FAR REGION OF DELIGHT,
THAT BACK TO THEE FROM THAT ADVENTUROUS FLIGHT,
A GLORIOUS WREATH MY HAPPY HANDS MIGHT BEAR;
SOON WOULD THE SWEETEST PERSIAN ROSE BE THINE--
SOON WOULD THE GLORY OF GOLCONDA'S MINE
FLASH ON THY FOREHEAD, LIKE A STAR--AH!  ME,
IN PLACE OF THESE, I BRING, WITH TREMBLING HAND,
THESE FADING WILD FLOWERS FROM OUR NATIVE LAND--
THESE SIMPLE PEBBLES FROM THE IRISH SEA!

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CONTENTS.

  • THE BELL-FOUNDER
    • Part I.--Labour and Hope
    • Part II.--Triumph and Reward
    • Part III.--Vicissitude and Rest
  • ALICE AND UNA
  • THE FORAY OF CON O'DONNELL
  • THE VOYAGE OF ST. BRENDAN
    • Part I.--The Vocation
    • Part II.--Ara of the Saints
    • Part III.--The Voyage
    • Part IV.--The Buried City
    • Part V.--The Paradise of Birds
    • Part VI.--The Promised Land

BALLADS AND LYRICS.

  • The Bridal of the Year
  • The Pilgrims
  • A Lament
  • Summer Longings
  • The Seasons of the Heart
  • Kate of Kenmare
  • Devotion
  • The Vale of Shangánah
  • The Pillar Towers of Ireland
  • Over the Sea
  • Oh!  had I the Wings of a Bird
  • Love's Language
  • The Fireside
  • The Banished Spirit's Song
  • Remembrance
  • The Clan of MacCaura
  • The Window
  • Autumn Fears
  • Fatal Gifts
  • Sweet May

NATIONAL POEMS AND SONGS.

  • Advance!
  • Remonstrance
  • Invocation
  • A Dream
  • The Price of Freedom
  • The Voice and Pen
  • Cease to do Evil--Learn to do Well
  • A New Year'sSong
  • The Living Land
  • The Dead Tribune
  • A Mystery
  • God Bless the Turk
  • The Voice in the Desert

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

  • Afghanistan
  • To Ethna
  • The Lay Missioner
  • A Walk by the Bay of Dublin
  • Sonnet, with a Copy of "The Spirit of the Nation"
  • Sonnet, with a Copy of Campbell's Poems

TRANSLATIONS.

FRENCH.

ITALIAN.

  • To Doris
  • Contentment
  • Anacreontic
  • To Philis
  • The Voyage of Love
  • Autumn
  • The Isle of Love
  • Canzone Amorosa
  • A Cloudy Day in England
  • The Pilgrim, the Cavalier, and the Troubadour

SPANISH.

  • Romance of Maleca
  • Romance of Zaide
  • The Bee
  • The Shade of the Leaves
  • To-day and To-morrow
  • Romance of Abenamar
  • The Double Pain
  • The Sound of Streams
  • Romance of Gazul
  • By the Shores of the Sea

GERMAN.

  • The Pleiades
  • The Elf-king O'Donoghue
  • The Elfin Bride
  • Death and the Doctor
  • Rodolph's Ride to the Emperor's Grave
  • The Water-Sprite
  • The Richest Prince
  • The Faithful Steed
  • Saint Luke
  • Saint George's Knight
  • The Christmas of the Foreign Child
  • Love Eternal
  • Happy Love
  • Chidher
  • The Bold Mariner
  • The Laughing Death's Head
  • The Reconciliation
  • Zobir

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MacCarthy, Denis Florence (1817-1882).  Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics, Original and Translated.  Dublin:  James McGlashan, 1850.

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