The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish

by Lady Gregory

Contents

• [The Grief of a Girl’s Heart]
• [A Lament for Fair-Haired Donough that Was Hanged in Galway]
• [Raftery’s Praise of Mary Hynes]
• [His Lament for O’Daly]
• [His Praise of the Little Hill and the Plains of Mayo]
• [His Lament for O’Kelly]
• [His Vision of Death]
• [His Repentance]
• [His Answer when Some Stranger Aske Who He Was]
• [A Blessing on Patrick Sarsfield]
• [An Aran Maid’s Wedding]
• [A Poem Written in Time of Trouble by an Irish Priest Who Had Taken Orders in France]
• [The Heart of the Wood]
• [An Croaibhin Complain Because He Is a Poet]
• [He Cries Out Against Love]
• [He Meditates on the Life of a Rich Man]
• [Forgaill’s Praise of Columcille]
• [The Deer’s Cry]
• [The Hymn of Molling’s Guest, the Man Full of Trouble]
• [The Hag of Beare]
• [The Seven Heavens]
• [The Journey of the Sun]
• [The Nature of the Stars]
• [The Call to Bran]
• [The Army of the Sidhe]
• [Credhe’s Complaint at the Battle of the White Strand]
• [A Sleepy Song that Grania Used to Be Singing Over Diarmuid the Time They Were Wandering and Hiding From Finn]
• [Her Song to Rouse Him from Sleep]
• [Her Lament for His Death]
• [The Parting of Goll and His Wife]
• [The Death of Osgar]
• [Oisin’s Vision]
• [His Praise of Finn]
• [Oisin after the Fenians]
• [The Foretelling of Cathbad the Druid at Deidre’s Birth]
• [Deirdre’s Lament for the Sons of Usnach]
• [Emer’s Lament for Cuchulain]