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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

II.

PART II ORIGINAL POEMS RELATING TO IRELAND

III.

PART III ORIGINAL POEMS-PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

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.

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.

VI.

PART VI MISCELLANEOUS VERSIONS

VII.

PART VII EXTRAVAGANZAS

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A NEW MOON.

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(From the Ottoman.)

Darksome through the Night of Separation
Unto two fond hearts must ever prove,
Those twin sorcerers, Hope—Imagination—
Raise a moon up from the Well of Love.