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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)

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I.

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

THE DREAM OF JOHN MAC DONNELL.

O'HUSSEY'S ODE TO THE MAGUIRE.

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.

ST. PATRICK'S HYMN BEFORE TARA.

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.

OWEN REILLY: A KEEN.

LAMENT FOR OWEN ROE O'NEILL.

THE FAIR HILLS OF EIRÈ, O!

THE GERALDINE'S DAUGHTER.

THE RUINS OF DONEGAL CASTLE.

A FAREWELL TO PATRICK SARSFIELD, EARL OF LUCAN.

THE SONG OF GLADNESS.

KATHLEEN NI HOULAHAN.

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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.

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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.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED FRIEND.

LIFE AND ITS ILLUSIONS.

LIFE IS THE DESERT AND THE SOLITUDE.

TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO.

THE COMING EVENT.

GASPARÓ BANDOLLO.

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VERY INTERESTING SONNETS.

1.

2.

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.

LAMENTATION OF JEREMIAS OVER JERUSALEM.

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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.

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THE SOFFEES' DITTY.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

THE LAST WORDS OF AL-HASSAN.

THE HUNDRED-LEAFÈD ROSE.

A TRIPLET ON THE REIGN OF THE GREAT SULTAN.

TO MIRIAM, ON HER HAIR.

FRONTI NULLA FIDES.

THE ANGEL OF DEATH.

THE WORLD—A GHAZEL.

HEAVEN FIRST OF ALL WITHIN OURSELVES.

RELIC OF SULTAN AMURATH II.

LINES ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE BASHTARDAH.

VOLTO SCIOLTO E PENSIERI STRETTI.

TRANSORANIAN PHILOSOPHY.

LAMII'S APOLOGY FOR HIS NONSENSE.

TO SULTAN MURAD II.

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

SAYING OF NEDSCHATI.

SAYINGS OF DJELIM.

RELIC OF PRINCE BAYAZEED SHAHI.

DOUBLE TROUBLE.

ARCHERS AND ARCHES.

RELIC OF YUSUF SHEICKI.

EFFECTS OF LAZINESS.

JUSTICE ALONE IS ETERNAL.

RELIC OF SERVI.

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V.

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.

AND THEN NO MORE.

GONE IN THE WIND.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

THE FAIRIES' PASSAGE.

ICHABOD! THY GLORY HAS DEPARTED.

HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

A SONG FROM THE COPTIC.

ANOTHER SONG FROM THE SAME COPTIC.

LIGHT AND SHADOW.

LOVE AND LIGHT.

LIFE IS THE DESERT AND THE SOLITUDE.

BE MERRY AND WISE.

MY THREE TORMENTORS.

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.

WHEN THE ROSES BLOW.

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VI.

PART VI MISCELLANEOUS VERSIONS

LIFE, DEATH, ETERNITY.

THE MARINER'S BRIDE.

THE MASS OF THE BIRDS.

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VII.

PART VII EXTRAVAGANZAS

TO THE INGLEEZE KHAFIR CALLING HIMSELF DJAUN BOOL DJENKINZUN.

THE DOMICILIARY VISIT.

THE WAYFARING TREE.

GENUINE ETHEREALITY.

THE DYING FATHER.

WHERE'S MY MONEY?

THE METEMPSYCHOSIS.

THE KING OF THE FRANKS.

THE DEVIL AND THE WIND.

PATHETIC HYPATHETICS.

HAROUN AL-RASHID AND THE DUST.

LOVE AND MADNESS.

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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

James Clarence Mangan

1803-1849

O'Donoghue & Co. M. H. Gill & Son A. H. Bullen

Dublin London

1903