Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish

by Lady Gregory

POETS AND DREAMERS:
STUDIES & TRANSLATIONS FROM
THE IRISH, BY LADY GREGORY.

DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO., LTD.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
1903.

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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.

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CONTENTS

	PAGE
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]

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