The book A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue; was written by author Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832-1916, Ed Here you can read free online of A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue; a good or bad book?
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In the golden vale she shall feed full fast. With her mild gold horn and her slow, dark eye. The wounded wood-dove lies dead at last ! The pine long-bleeding, it shall not die ! This song is secret. Mine ear it passed In a wind o'er the plains at Athenry. ' Mystical names of Ireland, frequently occurring in Gaelic poetry. 330 BOOK V GEORGE SIGERSON Dr. Sigerson in the Ireland of to-day stands forward a potent personality, to link in an embrace of amity the spirits of the Gall and of the Gael. G...all of the Gall himself, he is yet, as were also his ancestors, more Gaelic than the Gael ; and how thoroughly his ancestors had become one in soul and spirit with their new country the lament of the eighteenth-century poet for Francis Sigerson shows, for he describes the Suir as overflowing in its grief, the hills of Ireland as opening, and the Skellings as shrieking aloud 'A man has died' — all three bewailing. The handsome Hawk who towered the country o'er, Top-spray of all who sprang from Sigerson Mor.
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