EBOOK POETS AND DREAMERS ***
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POETS AND DREAMERS:
STUDIES & TRANSLATIONS FROM
THE IRISH, BY LADY GREGORY.
DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO., LTD.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
1903.
TO SOME UNDERGRADUATES OF TRINITY COLLEGE
'Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best;
In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest;
Happiness, knowledge not in another place, but this place--not for
another hour but this hour.'
WALT WHITMAN.
CONTENTS
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RAFTERY 1
WEST IRISH BALLADS 47
JACOBITE BALLADS 66
AN CRAOIBHIN'S POEMS 76
BOER BALLADS IN IRELAND 89
A SORROWFUL LAMENT FOR IRELAND 98
MOUNTAIN THEOLOGY 104
HERB-HEALING 111
THE WANDERING TRIBE 121
WORKHOUSE DREAMS 128
ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 193
AN CRAOIBHIN'S PLAYS:-- 196
THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE 200
THE MARRIAGE 216
THE LOST SAINT 236
THE NATIVITY 244
POETS AND DREAMERS
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