The Keen of the South of Ireland: As Illustrative of Irish Political and Domestic History, Manners, Music, and SuperstitionsThomas Crofton Croker |
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... light blue , the change to a rusty kind of black , was effected by steeping them in bog water for some days . My attention was first attracted to the keen in 1813 , by the following circumstance . - In the sum- mer of that year I ...
... light blue , the change to a rusty kind of black , was effected by steeping them in bog water for some days . My attention was first attracted to the keen in 1813 , by the following circumstance . - In the sum- mer of that year I ...
Page xli
... lights to his poor mother's soul , are closed and sunk in darkness for ever ! -The Ban- shee will come on the morrow , when ye are keening the last keen of sorrow over his head , -its cry will drown your death - song , for Oweneen was ...
... lights to his poor mother's soul , are closed and sunk in darkness for ever ! -The Ban- shee will come on the morrow , when ye are keening the last keen of sorrow over his head , -its cry will drown your death - song , for Oweneen was ...
Page xlii
... lights seen dancing on Cairn Thierna , and moving quickly across the wet bog , and let ye not follow , for the evil spirit is the guide , and will lead you to darkness . - Come to my grave when the yellow leaves off the trees are upon ...
... lights seen dancing on Cairn Thierna , and moving quickly across the wet bog , and let ye not follow , for the evil spirit is the guide , and will lead you to darkness . - Come to my grave when the yellow leaves off the trees are upon ...
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... light morning breeze , but so indistinct and so faint from distance , that it was repeated more than once before I could be quite certain it was more than mere imagination . However , I heard it again and again at intervals of a few ...
... light morning breeze , but so indistinct and so faint from distance , that it was repeated more than once before I could be quite certain it was more than mere imagination . However , I heard it again and again at intervals of a few ...
Page lv
... light and darkness , playing upon the surface of a sullen stream ; or like those blazes intermittingly shot forth by the Persian fire - flies on the meinham tree , which , glittering in their confusion , shed their most beautiful lights ...
... light and darkness , playing upon the surface of a sullen stream ; or like those blazes intermittingly shot forth by the Persian fire - flies on the meinham tree , which , glittering in their confusion , shed their most beautiful lights ...
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Page 47 - Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that peace begets; Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he sets? Rest you then, rest, sad eyes ! Melt not in weeping, While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping.
Page 41 - Mirth can do with her enticing parts. Sorrow was there made fair, And Passion wise; Tears a delightful thing; Silence beyond all speech, a wisdom rare; She made her sighs to sing, And all things with so sweet a sadness move As made my heart at once both grieve and love. O fairer than aught else The world can show, leave off in time to grieve. Enough, enough; your joyful look excels: Tears kill the heart, believe. O strive not to be excellent in woe, Which only breeds your beauty's overthrow.
Page 99 - HOW hard is my fortune. And vain my repining ! The strong rope of fate For this young neck is twining. My strength is departed, My cheek sunk and sallow, While I languish in chains In the gaol of Clonmala.' No boy in the village Was ever yet milder. I'd play with a child, And my sport would be wilder ; I'd dance without tiring From morning till even, And the goal-ball I'd strike To the lightning of heaven. At my bed-foot decaying, My hurlbat is lying ; Thro...
Page 59 - Through ocean to trail him, Like a fish after slaughter— 'Tis therefore I wail him. Long may the curse Of his people pursue them : Scully that sold him, And soldier that slew him ! One glimpse of heaven's light May they see never ! May the hearthstone of hell Be their best bed...
Page 34 - Where honour Cupid's rival is, There miracles are seen of his. If Cynthia crave her ring of me, I blot her name out of the tree. If doubt do darken things held dear, Then well fare nothing once a year ! For many run, but one must win ; Fools, only, hedge the cuckoo in.
Page iii - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...
Page 33 - Cynthia's praise, I wear her rings on holidays, In every tree I write her name, And every day I read the same. Where honour Cupid's rival is There miracles are seen of his. If Cynthia crave her ring of me, I blot her name out of the tree ; If doubt do darken things held dear, Then well-fare nothing once a year ; For many run but one must win, Fools only hedge the cuckoo in.
Page 57 - Scully ! thou false one You basely betrayed him ; In his strong hour of need When thy right hand should aid him ; He fed thee ; — he clad thee ; You had all could delight thee ; You left him ; — you sold him ; — May heaven requite thee...
Page 31 - Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love* are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; And lovers...
Page 4 - For the stranger now rules in the land of the Gael. Where, where are the woods that oft rung to your cheer, Where you waked the wild chase of the wolf and the deer? Can those dark heights, with ramparts all frowning and riven, Be the hills where your forests wav'd brightly in heaven? O bondsmen of Egypt, no Moses appears To light your dark steps thro