In this delightful collection, some of Irelands most celebrated writers capture the joy and pain of romantic love.
Featuring Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, George AE Russell and Ethna Carbery, Thomas Moore and Lady Gregory, Jonathan Swift, J.M. Synge and many more.
Let their inspiring and stirring words guide you through the longing of love unanswered, the joy of love won, and the grief of love that is no more.
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Best-Loved Irish Love Poems has just arrived in bookshops, making it the ideal gift for the day of love. In this delightful collection, some of Ireland's most celebrated writers capture the joy and pain of romantic love -- The Echo the ideal gift for Valentines Day -- Sunday World Magazine
Far the Way That I Must Go: The poet searches for love
Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty by William Butler Yeats
A Love Song by Eva Gore-Booth
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name by Thomas Moore
My Love, Oh, She Is My Love translated by Douglas Hyde
My Dove, My Beautiful One by James Joyce
A Mayo Love Song by Alice Milligan
The Burning-Glass by AE (George William Russell)
The Cap and Bells by William Butler Yeats
Silentium Amoris by Oscar Wilde
The Lark in the Clear Air by Sir Samuel Ferguson
The Fisherman by Speranza (Lady Jane Wilde)
Turn othe Year by Katharine Tynan
If Thoult Be Mine by Thomas Moore
A White Rose by John Boyle OReilly
The Lone of Soul by Dora Sigerson
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
Rafterys Praise of Mary Hynes by Antoine Ó Raifteirí, translated by Lady
Augusta Gregory
What Is Love? translated by Alfred Perceval Graves
She translated by Eleanor Hull
If I Have You, Then I Have Everything: The poet in love
New Love by Joseph Mary Plunkett
This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart by James Joyce
The Heart of the Wood translated by Lady Augusta Gregory
Is It a Month by John Millington Synge
The Daisies by James Stephens
Our Road by Ethna Carbery
On Stellas Birthday by Jonathan Swift
The Little Black Rose Shall Be Red at Last by Joseph Mary Plunkett
Dear Dark Head translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson
O, It Was Out by Donnycarney by James Joyce
Pulse of My Heart translated by Charlotte Brooke
Song by Francis Ledwidge
My Lagan Love by Joseph Campbell
Nocturne by Frances Wynne
Your Songs by Joseph Mary Plunkett
The Heart of the Woman by William Butler Yeats
Dark Rosaleen by James Clarence Mangan
The Cooleen translated by Douglas Hyde
Echo by Thomas Moore
And Then No More: The end of love
Dónal Óg (The Grief of a Girls Heart) translated by Lady Augusta Gregory
No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
Maire My Girl by John Keegan Casey
The Stars Stand Up in the Air translated by Thomas MacDonagh
A Song by Francis Ledwidge
Tutto è sciolto by James Joyce
In Tír-na-nÓg by Ethna Carbery
Destiny by Speranza (Lady Jane Wilde)
The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
Do You Remember That Night? translated by Eugene OCurry
Inamorata by Francis Ledwidge
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
The Rose of Mooncoin by Watt Murphy
The Lowlands of Flanders by Katharine Tynan
Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore
And Then No More by James Clarence Mangan
The Little Yellow Road by Joseph Campbell, taken down from Mícheál Mac
Ruaidhrí
On Inisheer by Ethna Carbery
The Vision of Love by AE (George William Russell)
Her Voice by Oscar Wilde
My Voice by Oscar Wilde
Index of first lines
Index of authors
NICOLA REDDY has worked in publishing for many years. By day, she edits books for readers of all ages, and by night, she loves to share her favourites with her two young kids. Originally from Waterford, she now lives in Dublin with her family and two very fluffy cats. This is her first book.
