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Poems of James Clarence Mangan

(Many hitherto uncollected): Centenary edition: Edited, with preface and notes by D. J. O'Donoghue: Introduction by John Mitchel

Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849)

PART I VERSIONS (MORE OR LESS FREE) FROM THE IRISH

DARK ROSALEEN.

THE DREAM OF JOHN MAC DONNELL.

O'HUSSEY'S ODE TO THE MAGUIRE.

A LAMENTATION

THE WOMAN OF THREE COWS.

KATHALEEN NY-HOULAHAN.

LAMENT FOR THE PRINCES OF TYRONE AND TYRCONNELL (BURIED IN ROME).

LAMENT OVER THE RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF TEACH MOLAGA.

THE DAWNING OF THE DAY.

THE TESTAMENT OF CATHAEIR MOR.

THE EXPEDITION AND DEATH OF KING DATHY.

PRINCE ALFRID'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND.

LAMENT FOR BANBA.

ELLEN BAWN.

ST. PATRICK'S HYMN BEFORE TARA.

CEAN-SALLA.

LAMENTATION OF MAC LIAG FOR KINCORA.

THE CAPTIVITY OF THE GAELS.

THE SORROWS OF INNISFAIL

RURY AND DARVORGILLA.

THE IRISH LANGUAGE.

WELCOME TO THE PRINCE OF OSSORY.

LOVE BALLAD

OWEN REILLY: A KEEN.

LAMENT FOR OWEN ROE O'NEILL.

THE FAIR HILLS OF EIRÈ, O!

THE GERALDINE'S DAUGHTER.

A LULLABY.

THE RUINS OF DONEGAL CASTLE.

A FAREWELL TO PATRICK SARSFIELD, EARL OF LUCAN.

THE SONG OF GLADNESS.

ROISIN DUBH.

KATHLEEN NI HOULAHAN.

II.

PART II ORIGINAL POEMS RELATING TO IRELAND

SOUL AND COUNTRY.

THE LOVELY LAND.

A VISION OF CONNAUGHT IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

THE WARNING VOICE.

A VOICE OF ENCOURAGEMENT—A NEW YEAR'S LAY.

A HIGHWAY FOR FREEDOM.

IRISH NATIONAL HYMN.

TO MY NATIVE LAND.

THE PEAL OF ANOTHER TRUMPET.

HYMN FOR PENTECOST.

III.

PART III ORIGINAL POEMS-PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

TO JOSEPH BRENAN.

THE DYING ENTHUSIAST.

THE NAMELESS ONE.

THE ONE MYSTERY.

A BROKEN-HEARTED LAY.

THE GROANS OF DESPAIR.

DISASTER.

POMPEII.

TO LAURA.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED FRIEND.

LIFE AND ITS ILLUSIONS.

LIFE IS THE DESERT AND THE SOLITUDE.

ENTHUSIASM.

TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO.

VERY INTERESTING SONNETS.

II.

COUNSEL TO THE WORLDLY-WISE.

COUNSEL OF A COSMOPOLITAN.

LINES WRITTEN IN A NUNNERY CHAPEL.

THE NIGHT IS FALLING.

WISDOM AND FOLLY.

REST ONLY IN THE GRAVE.

LIFE.

LOVE.

LAMENTATION OF JEREMIAS OVER JERUSALEM.

IV.

PART IV ORIENTAL VERSIONS AND PERVERSIONS

THE TIME OF THE BARMECIDES.

THE KARAMANIAN EXILE.

THE TIME OF THE ROSES.

THE TIME ERE THE ROSES WERE BLOWING.

NIGHT IS NEARING.

THE HOWLING SONG OF AL-MOHARA.

THE WAIL AND WARNING OF THE THREE KHALENDEERS.

THE WORST LOSS.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SULTAN SULEÍMAUN THE MAGNIFICENT.

THE SOFFEES' DITTY.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

THE LAST WORDS OF AL-HASSAN.

THE HUNDRED-LEAFÈD ROSE.

LAMENT.

A TRIPLET ON THE REIGN OF THE GREAT SULTAN.

TO MIRIAM, ON HER HAIR.

HEAVEN FIRST OF ALL WITHIN OURSELVES.

LEARNING.

GOOD COUNSEL.

AN EPITAPH.

RELIC OF SULTAN AMURATH II.

LINES ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE BASHTARDAH.

GHAZEL.

VOLTO SCIOLTO E PENSIERI STRETTI.

WHAT IS LOVE?

JEALOUSY.

TRANSORANIAN PHILOSOPHY.

A NEW MOON.

LAMII'S APOLOGY FOR HIS NONSENSE.

TO SULTAN MURAD II.

TO AMINE, ON SEEING HER ABOUT TO VEIL HER MIRROR.

SAYING OF NEDSCHATI.

FOUR PROVERBS.

SAYINGS OF DJELIM.

RELIC OF PRINCE BAYAZEED SHAHI.

DOUBLE TROUBLE.

ARCHERS AND ARCHES.

RELIC OF YUSUF SHEICKI.

A NONDESCRIPT.

EFFECTS OF LAZINESS.

JUSTICE ALONE IS ETERNAL.

RELIC OF SERVI.

PART V. OVERSETTINGS FROM THE GERMAN.

ALEXANDER AND THE TREE.

NOON-DAY DREAMING.

TO THE BELOVED ONE.

THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER.

BREADTH AND DEPTH.

THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET.

NATURE MORE THAN SCIENCE.

THE FAIRIES' PASSAGE.

GRABBE.

MY THEMES.

ICHABOD! THY GLORY HAS DEPARTED.

HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

SONG.

A SONG FROM THE COPTIC.

ANOTHER SONG FROM THE SAME COPTIC.

SONG.

LIGHT AND SHADOW.

LOVE AND LIGHT.

LIFE IS THE DESERT AND THE SOLITUDE.

O MARIA, REGINA MISERICORDIÆ!

THE LOVER'S FAREWELL.

TO THE SPIRIT-SEERESS OF PREVORST.

TO THE GHOST-SEERESS OF PREVORST, AFTER HER DECEASE.

MY ADIEU TO THE MUSE.

HOME-SICKNESS.

MY HOME.

WHEN THE ROSES BLOW.

VI.

PART VI MISCELLANEOUS VERSIONS

LIFE, DEATH, ETERNITY.

THE MARINER'S BRIDE.

THE MASS OF THE BIRDS.

VII.

PART VII EXTRAVAGANZAS

TO THE INGLEEZE KHAFIR CALLING HIMSELF DJAUN BOOL DJENKINZUN.

THE DOMICILIARY VISIT.

THE KING OF THE FRANKS.

THE DEVIL AND THE WIND.

PATHETIC HYPATHETICS.

A COUPLET.

HAROUN AL-RASHID AND THE DUST.

LOVE AND MADNESS.

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SAYINGS OF DJELIM.

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(From the Fazel-Nameh of Schinasi, or the Knowing One. ob. 1627.) (From the Ottoman.)

I, too, was reared in Djelim's house; and thus his precepts run and are:
When Folly sells thee Wisdom's crown, 'tis idly gained and dearly bought:
O! foremost man of all his race, born under some diviner star,
Who, early trained, self-reined, self-chained, can practise all that Lokman taught,
The joys and cares of Earth are snares: Heed lest thy soul too late deplore
The power of Sin to wile and win her vision from the Eight and Four.
Lock up thyself within thyself; distrust the Stranger and the Fair;
The fool is blown from whim to whim by every gust of Passion's gales;

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Bide where the lute and song are mute; and—as thy soul would shun despair—
Avert thine eyes from Woman's face when Twilight falls and she unveils.
Be circumspect; be watchmanlike; put pebbles in thy mouth each day;
Pause long ere thou panegyrise; pause doubly long ere thou condemn.
Thy thoughts are Tartars, vagabonds; imprison all thou canst not slay.
Of many million drops of rain perchance but one turns out a gem.