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Excerpt from The Poems of Thomas D'arcy McGee: With Copious Notes; Also an Introduction and Biographical Sketch The Gathering of the Nations The Heart's Resting-place The Living and the Dead The Parting from Ireland The Pilgrims of Liberty The Reaper's Song. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... Now this is precisely what he did, and it makes the chief charm of his poetry. It was because he, more thdh any poet of our time, " turn'd" his verses " true to the Gaelic ear," that, whether grave or gay, tender or pathetic, or martial, or religious, they ever reach the Gaelic heart, and mirror all its many-hued aspects. The noblest of his poems are undoubtedly the historical. Indeed, it was one of the dreams of his life to complete, in some season of rest (which never came!) a ballad-history of Ireland: some broken links of that golden chain will delight many a reader of this volume, as they have delighted thousands in days gone by. " Amergin's Hymn on Seeing Innisfail," " Milesius, the Spaniard," " Ossian's Celts," " Ireland of the Druids," " The Coming of St. Patrick," and other poems on the life and death of that apostle; " The Voyage of Em an Oge," " The Gobhan Saer," "St. Cormac, the Navigator," " St. Brendan and the Strife-Sower," " St. Columba to his Irish Dove," ' St. Columbanus to St. Comgall," " The Testament of St. Arbogast," " The Pilgrimage of Sir Ulgarg," the two noble poems on "Margaret O'Carroll, of Offaly;" " Lady Gormley," " Flan Synan's Game of Chess," " Sir John De Courcy's Pilgrimage," " Good Friday, 1014," " Shawn na Gow's Guest," and other poeins on King Brian Boromhe; the fine, but unfinished poem on " The Death of Donnell More," " Cathal's Farewell to the Rye," " The Wisdom-Sellers before Charlemagne," " The Lament of the Irish Children in the Tower," "Earl Desmond's Apology," "Rory Dall's Lamentation," " Feagh McHugh," " Sir Cahir O'Dogherty's Message," " The Rapparees," " The Midnight Mass," " The Death of Art McMurrogh," "The River Boyne," "The Execution of Archbishop Plunket," " The Death of O'Carolan," the...
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