"A Prayer." Original and literal translation by Miss Mary E. Byrne in Ériu, ii., Part i. p. 89.
"The Loves of Liadan and Curithir." This touching poem illustrates the tyrannical use sometimes made of their authority by the monks of the ancient Irish Church. St. Cummine, who was the confessor or "soul-friend" of the lovers, seems to have been a hard and censorious man. He lived in the first half of the seventh century. The poem, as we have it, is of the ninth century. Edited with translation by Dr. Kuno Meyer (D. Nutt, 1902). The love song has been reprinted in his Ancient Irish Poetry.
"The Lay of Prince Marvan." This song takes the form of a colloquy between Marvan, who had left his royal station to adopt a hermit life, and his brother King Guaire of Connaught (d. 662). Guaire, visiting him in his retirement, inquires why he prefers to sleep in a hut rather than in the comfort of a kingly palace; in reply Marvan bursts forth into a song in praise of his retired woodland life. Original in King and Hermit, edited by Dr. Kuno Meyer (D. Nutt, 1901); translation reprinted in Ancient Irish Poetry, p. 47.
"The Song of Crede." Text and translation in Ériu, ii. p. 15; its editor, Dr. Kuno Meyer, ascribes it to the tenth century. I have to thank Mr. A. P. Graves for most kindly giving me permission to use his unpublished poem.
"The Student and his Cat," eighth or ninth century. Written on the margin of a codex of St. Paul's Epistles, in the monastery of Carinthia. Original and translation in Stokes' and Strachan's Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, ii. p. 293.
"Song of the Seven Archangels." Original in Ériu, ii., Part i. pp. 92-4, with literal translation by Thomas P. O'Nowlan. Mr. Ernest Rhys' poetical version, kindly contributed by him to this book, has not hitherto been published.
"Saints of Four Seasons." Original in Ériu, i., Part ii. pp. 226-7, with translation by Miss Mary E. Byrne. Mr. P. J. McCall's poetical version is printed in his Irish Fireside Songs (M. H. Gill, Dublin, 1911).
"The Feathered Hermit." Original printed by Dr. K. Meyer in Gaelic Journal, iv., No. 40, February 1892, from a marginal note on Harl. MS. 5280 (Brit. Mus.).
"An Aphorism." Ibid.; also from a marginal note.
"The Blackbird." Marginal note from a copy of Priscian in the monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland. Original in Stokes' and Strachan's Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, p. 290.