POETS AND DREAMERS:
STUDIES & TRANSLATIONS FROM
THE IRISH, BY LADY GREGORY.
DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO., LTD.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
1903.
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.'
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.
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 |
POETS AND DREAMERS
RAFTERY
I.
One winter afternoon as I sat by the fire in a ward of Gort Workhouse, Ilistened to two old women arguing about the merits of two rival poetsthey had seen and heard in their childhood.
One old wo
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