EIRE

And other Poems By ROBIN FLOWER LONDON: LOCKE ELLIS, 18 Whitcomb Street, Leicester Square 1910.

Certain of these Poems have appeared in “Country Life” and the “Academy,” and are reprinted here by the courtesy of the Editors.

I.M.S. Has primitias.

CONTENTS.

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EIRE.

EIRE’S ANSWER.

TÍR NA N-ÓG.

MUIRNÍN NA GRUAIGE BÁINE.

(From the Irish).

THE LITTLE WEE LAD.

THE CHARM.

THE SIDHE.

THE EXILE.

(18th Century).

SEA-CHILDREN.

OLD SONGS.

(To E. J.)

MORNING IN GLENAIR.

THE HEDGE-SCHOOLMASTER TO HIS LOVE.

THE LAKE OF LONGING.

TO H.I.B.

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LYRICS.

ON IVINGHOE BEACON.

THE SORROW OF SENCHAN THE LONELY.

“CHEVAUCHONS.”

(To a tune of Provence.)

THE NIGHTINGALE.

JOY’S IMMORTALITY.

AT GOLDER’S HILL.

THE APPLE TREE.

DESIDERIA.

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THE BACCHANTE.

[Scene: The Eastward slopes of Cithaeron. A Bacchante with wine cup and thyrsus comes running up the hill. A youth follows her, and, as the first streaks of dawn line the sky, she turns and speaks.]

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SONNETS.

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HYMENAEA.

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VIII.

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