The Poem-Book of the Gael. Various

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       THE SALTAIR NA RANN, OR PSALTER OF THE VERSES

       I. THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

       II. THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM

       III. THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT. (vii.)

       IV. THE FALL AND EXPULSION FROM PARADISE. (viii.)

       V. THE PENANCE OF ADAM AND EVE. (xi.)

       VI. THE DEATH OF ADAM. (xii.)

       THE SOURCE OF POETIC INSPIRATION

       AMORGEN'S SONG

       THE SONG OF CHILDBIRTH

       GREETING TO THE NEW-BORN BABE

       WHAT IS LOVE?

       SUMMONS TO CUCHULAIN

       LAEGH'S DESCRIPTION OF FAIRY-LAND

       THE LAMENTATION OF FAND WHEN SHE IS ABOUT TO LEAVE CUCHULAIN

       MIDER'S CALL TO FAIRY-LAND

       THE SONG OF THE FAIRIES

       THE GREAT LAMENTATION OF DEIRDRE FOR THE SONS OF USNA

       FIRST WINTER-SONG

       SECOND WINTER-SONG

       IN PRAISE OF MAY

       THE ISLE OF ARRAN

       THE PARTING OF GOLL FROM HIS WIFE

       YOUTH AND AGE

       CHILL WINTER

       THE SLEEP-SONG OF GRAINNE OVER DERMUID

       THE SLAYING OF CONBEG

       THE FAIRIES' LULLABY

       SONG OF THE FOREST TREES

       ST. PATRICK'S BREASTPLATE

       PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER

       COLUMCILLE'S FAREWELL TO ARAN OF THE SAINTS

       ST. COLUMBA IN IONA

       HYMN TO THE DAWN

       THE SONG OF MANCHAN THE HERMIT

       A PRAYER

       THE LOVES OF LIADAN AND CURITHIR

       THE LAY OF PRINCE MARVAN

       THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE

       THE STUDENT AND HIS CAT

       THE SONG OF THE SEVEN ARCHANGELS

       THE FÉILIRE OF ADAMNAN

       THE FEATHERED HERMIT

       AN APHORISM

       THE BLACKBIRD

       DEUS MEUS

       THE SOUL'S DESIRE

       TEMPEST ON THE SEA

       THE OLD WOMAN OF BEARE

       GORMLIATH'S LAMENT FOR NIAL BLACK-KNEE

       THE MOTHER'S LAMENT AT