The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan Poems V2 Poems: 1838-1844

by Chuto, Jacques; Holzapfel, Rudolf Patrick; MacMahon, Peter; Snodaigh, Patrick O; Shannon-Mangan, Ellen; Dushlane, Tadhg O; Kamp, Peter Van De; Mangan, James Clarence

ISBN13: 9780716525752

ISBN10: 0716525755

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 1996-01-30

Publisher(s): Irish Academic Press

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Summary

Publications by and about Mangan include James Clarence Mangan, His Selected Poems with a Study by the Editor Louise Imgogen Guiney (Boston, Lamson, Wolffe & Co., 1897); James Clarence Mangan, by John Desmond Sheridan (Dublin/London,The Talbot Press/G. Duckworth & Co, 1937); Selected poems of James Clarence Mangan, edited by Jacque Chuto, with a foreword by Terence Brown (Dublin/Portland, OR., Irish Academic Press, 2003); The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan, Poems: 1845-1847, edited by Jacques Chuto (Blackrock, Co Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1997); Selected prose of James Clarence Mangan: bicentenary edition, editors Jacques Chuto, Peter Van De Kamp, and Ellen Shannon-Mangan, with a foreword by A. Norman Jeffares (Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2004); and James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writing, edited with an introduction by Sean Ryder University College Press, 2004).

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

(2)

NOTE ON THE POETRY VOLUMES

xvii

(4)

INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME

xix

1838

(78)

Ghazel and Song

(1)

Ghazel: The World

(1)

Passage from Hudayi II

(2)

Ghazel ('Tis the goblet of Djim)

(1)

The City of Truth

(3)

To Mihri

(1)

Cast not Pearls before Swine

(1)

Dark Aspect and Prospect

(1)

An Incongruity

(1)

My Eyes!

(1)

Ex Nihilo Aliquid Fit

(1)

Genuine Ethereality

(1)

Double Trouble

(1)

Archers and Arches

(1)

Relic of Yusuf Scheiki

(1)

My heart is a monk

(1)

Cause and Effect

(1)

Treacherous Black Guards

(1)

A Nondescript

(1)

Song for Coffee-Drinkers

(2)

Saying of Saadi

(1)

Lament (My drooping heart)

(1)

Relic of Prince Bayazeed

(1)

Relic of Servi

(1)

I sang thee this

(1)

Passage from the Mulhimet

(1)

Invocation

(1)

Panegyric of Sultan Suleiman

(2)

Glory be to God

(1)

The Hostage

(5)

The Glove

(4)

The Words of Reality

(1)

The Words of Delusion

(1)

The Course of Time

(1)

Breadth and Depth

(1)

The Game of Life

(1)

Enigmas

(1)

I Of the fiercer snakes

(1)

II We form a strange groupe

(1)

III A Fabric was raised

(1)

Philosophy and Philosophers

(2)

Take thy Choice

(1)

The Real Arcanum

(1)

Why Time Flies

(1)

Life, Soul and Spirit

(1)

Startling Advice

(1)

The Desideratum

(1)

Common Pride and Uncommon Pride

(1)

Consolation for Authors

(1)

To the Astronomers

(1)

The Art of Style

(1)

Very Peculiar Prerogative of Genius

(1)

A Shrewd Discovery

(1)

Woman's Judgment

(1)

On Seeing an Aesthetical Sculptured Emblem of Death

(1)

Rather Queer

(1)

The Age We Live In

(1)

To a Self-Conceited Pamphleteer

(1)

To the Bachelor

(1)

The Use of an Enemy

(1)

To the Poet

(1)

To Poesy

(1)

A Twig for the Drowning

(1)

Modus Operandi of Genius

(1)

Light and Colors

(1)

A Contrast

(1)

To Wranglers for Systems

(1)

The Secret of Immortality

(1)

The Physical World

(1)

Speech v. Spirit

(1)

A Song concerning Rhenish

(1)

The Grave, the Grave

(1)

Tempus Fugit

(1)

Dessaulx is my name

(1)

A Cosmopolite

(1)

An Original Family-Picture

(1)

Mynheer Van Woodenblock

(5)

Pathetic Hypothetics

(2)

Andreas Hofer

(1)

My Heart

(1)

The Days of Childhood

(1)

Love and Wine

(1)

The Child of Care: An Apologue

(1)

Light and Warmth

(1)

Guide to Virtue

(1)

More Rhenish

(1)

Oh!--pierced with wounds

(1)

The Hundred-Leafed Rose

(2)

What is Love?

(1)

Epigram (Get silver ice)

(1)

Volto Sciolto e Pensieri Stretti

(1)

Haroun Al-Rashid and the Dust

(1)

A-Trophy Taken from Love

(1)

The Panegyric of Amrapolas, near Brusa

(1)

Orthodoxy, or the Doxy?

(1)

Opinions No Pinions

(1)

To Zureida

(1)

To Rayab Ana Sherehemiz, the Female Traveller

(1)

To Mailuka

(1)

Description of Morning

(1)

A Well-Delivered Speech

(1)

To Amine

(1)

To Amine Dead

(1)

Most Melancholic

(1)

Effects of Laziness

(1)

Epigram (My friend sat sad)

(1)

To Zelica

(1)

A New Moon

(1)

Lamii's Apology for his Nonsense

(1)

To Bakki

(1)

Relic of Sultan Amurath II

(1)

It is All One in the Turkish

(1)

Lines on the Launching of the Bashtardah

(1)

Wine Ghazel

(1)

Justice Alone is Eternal

(1)

Egypt

(1)

Opium and Wine

(3)

I In Praise of Wine

(1)

II The Drinker is Rebuked by Wine for Praising Opium

(1)

III Brandy Tells Wine not to Worry

(1)

IV Opium Panegyrizes Himself

(1)

V A Wordy Skirmish before the Battle

(1)

VI Opium's Defeat

(1)

1839

(79)

Make the Lion the Painter

(1)

The Hidden Treasure

(1)

The Last Resource

(2)

The Ghost and the Poet

(2)

Have I not called thee angel-like and fair?

(1)

For, once I dreamed

(1)

'Twixt Whacker and Thwacker

(1)

The Mayor and Clerk

(1)

"I'll cut this coat"

(1)

The Affectionate Wife

(1)

The Dying Father

(1)

The Bold Dragoon

(1)

The Happy Husband

(1)

The Charitable Widow

(1)

The Felon

(1)

The Casket

(2)

The Bottle Conjuror

(1)

Knight of the Kitchen

(1)

Epigram (Quoth Prince Pultrowski)

(1)

Fair child of Northern climes

(1)

Stanza from the Italian

(1)

Transoxanian Philosophy

(1)

Elegy on the Death of Tchao-king

(2)

Epigram (A costly pearl tea-urn)

(1)

To Zeneebah

(1)

"George! I'm thrown out of Berks"

(1)

In Vhy-no Veritas

(1)

To the Sun

(1)

The Nymph of Tea-ers

100

(1)

An Adder in the Grass

100

(1)

A Fall Arrested

100

(1)

Singular Duplicity

100

(1)

He Must Bite

100

(1)

All Fools' Dey

101

(1)

Mighty Odd

101

(1)

Hostile Engines

101

(1)

A Blowing East-Windian

101

(1)

Catching a Tartar

102

(1)

Tim Sullivan's Plea

102

(1)

Though Laughter seems

102

(1)

The Rule of Three In-Verse

102

(2)

Lines on the Death of **** **** ****

104

(2)

O! the fire is quenched

106

(1)

I knew him!

107

(1)

Mark ye well those crumbling castle-walls

108

(1)

All night and day

108

(2)

My Mausoleum

110

(2)

On the Occasion of the Truce

112

(1)

To Laura

113

(2)

The Lover's Farewell

115

(1)

Stanzas which ought not to have been written in Midsummer

116

(2)

Bamberg: A Drop-Scene

118

(2)

My Home

120

(1)

Live

121

(1)

The Three Dead Men of Harlkoll

122

(2)

Stanzas to ***** (Oh, no! no!)

124

(1)

Song (When the roses blow)

125

(1)

O, my Heart

126

(1)

The Best Blessing

127

(1)

Love in Death

128

(2)

Resolve

130

(1)

The Mighty Dead

130

(1)

Germany

131

(9)

Good Night, Good Night, my Lyre

140

(1)

The Meteor of Kasan

140

(18)

1840

158

(60)

The Days of Nourooz'iz

158

(1)

The Kiosk of Moostanzar-Billah

159

(2)

The Howling Song of Al-Mohara

161

(2)

Ghazzel by the Durweesh Fakrideed, of Klish

163

(1)

Stammering or Tipsy Ghazzel

164

(1)

There's not a bower in Eden

165

(1)

I will groan

165

(1)

Night is Nearing

165

(1)

The Daunishmend's Lamentation

166

(2)

The Time of the Barmecides

168

(2)

Kasseedeh (The dark red wine of Morn)

170

(1)

Love

171

(1)

Adam's Oath

171

(1)

Fronti Nulla Fides

172

(1)

Memory

172

(1)

A Fowl Spec.

172

(1)

On the Imam Ebusund

173

(1)

To a Turkish Author

173

(1)

To Sultan Murad II

173

(1)

To a Groaner

174

(1)

To Amine, on seeing her about to veil her mirror

174

(1)

Where art thou, Soul of Per-Version?

174

(1)

To Trash Gregg, on his Projected Pedestrian Crusade

175

(1)

Polycrates and his Ring, a Ballad

175

(3)

Thecla: A Voice from the World of Spirits

178

(1)

To a Mountain Cataract

178

(2)

Song of the Stars

180

(1)

The Revenge of Duke Swerting

181

(1)

Freedom

182

(1)

The Erl-King's Daughter, a Danish Ballad

183

(3)

Virtue's Triumph

186

(1)

Twenty Golden Years Ago

186

(2)

The World's Changes

188

(2)

"Among the Church's champions"

190

(1)

Go Ahead Straight

190

(1)

Alexander and the Tree

191

(2)

Asses

193

(2)

Let England's Old Womanhood tremble no more

195

(1)

When Arthur, Duke of Wellington

195

(1)

Thirteen Verse Epigrams

196

(3)

1 Cried the Bell

196

(1)

2 "Look up, In-Cog!"

196

(1)

3 Sing, hey diddle, diddle

197

(1)

4 Come, wise folks, now

197

(1)

5 "My tail is out of joint"

197

(1)

6 "Hard to get tenants now"

197

(1)

7 'Tis wonderful to think

197

(1)

8 The music of the Herald

198

(1)

9 Will the Bank Charter be renewed?

198

(1)

10 "Ned Bulwer," said Shaw

198

(1)

11 "Peel, what d'ye really think of Melbourne?"

198

(1)

12 As Larry Gough, the vintner

198

(1)

13 "Whan is the Hoose prorogued?"

198

(1)

Life and its Illusions

199

(2)

The Woman of Three Cows

201

(1)

Sighs of an Unloved One

202

(1)

The Divorced

203

(3)

An Elegy on the Tironian and Tirconnellian Princes buried at Rome

206

(5)

Sonnet--The Departure of Love

211

(1)

The Eagle and the Dove

212

(2)

The Field of Kunnersdorf

214

(2)

The Old Man and the Youths

216

(2)

1841

218

(44)

The Romance of the Count Alarcos

218

(5)

Lament for Alhama, and Death of the Moor Alfaquee

223

(5)

Life, Death, Eternity

228

(8)

Slighted Love

236

(2)

Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora

238

(1)

Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan

239

(1)

Spring Roses

240

(2)

The Jeweller's Daughter

242

(2)

The Golden Apple

244

(1)

Spirits Everywhere

245

(1)

Epigram ('Tis quite a pain to think)

246

(1)

Vale and Highway

246

(1)

A Sigh

247

(1)

Early Graves

248

(1)

The Sentimental Gardener

248

(2)

The Little Hut

250

(1)

The Fox-Chorus

250

(4)

Home-Sickness

254

(1)

To the Spirit-Seeress of Prevorst

255

(1)

Noon-Day Dreaming

256

(1)

The Bereaved One

256

(3)

About Schnax

259

(1)

Boerhaave

259

(1)

May

259

(1)

Hats V. Heads

259

(1)

The Cat and the Looking-Glass

260

(1)

The German Rhine

261

(1)

1842

262

(51)

To my Life-Ring

262

(1)

The Spectre-Caravan

263

(1)

The Lily-Maidens

264

(1)

The Ride round the Parapet

265

(5)

The Dying Flower

270

(2)

The Abduction of the Lady Gertrude von Hochburg

272

(9)

The Fair and Faithless One of Grailov

281

(4)

O, Maria, Regina Misericordiae!

285

(2)

Gone in the Wind

287

(1)

The Castle over the Sea

288

(1)

The Grave-Digger's Chant

289

(1)

Love-Ditty

290

(1)

To the Ghost-Seeress of Prevorst, after her Decease

291

(1)

The Sunken City

291

(1)

Sonnet: Lessing's Words

292

(1)

My River

293

(1)

The Secret

294

(1)

Charlemagne and the Bridge of Moonbeams

295

(1)

The Lion's Ride

296

(3)

The Brother and the Sister

299

(2)

Our First Number

301

(1)

Epigram ("Well, Pat, my boy")

302

(1)

Rayther Inconsistent

303

(1)

On Hearing that the Present Emperor of China is of a Tartar Family

303

(1)

Touching the Tariff and Income Tax

303

(1)

Pleasant Prospects for the Land-Eaters

303

(1)

The Three Half-Crowns

304

(9)

The poet bewaileth his ill luck in having contracted the debt of the Tre Giulii

304

(1)

He is of opinion that his Creditor would pursue him unto the isle of Sky

304

(1)

He proposes a plan of mutual accommodation to his Creditor

304

(1)

He wishes that the Jewish Jubilee could be re-promulgated in his time, that so he might get shut of his debt

305

(1)

He compares his debt to a small pimple, which by degrees grows to the magnitude of a cabbage-tumour

305

(1)

He assigns a philosophical reason why his Creditor should be harder-hearted than one living any where else

306

(1)

He comes down with his petty penny-hammer on the armour of the cabalistic giants

306

(1)

His opinion is that he attracts his Creditor towards him by a species of animal magnetism

307

(1)

He floors his Creditor in an argument on the immortality of the soul

307

(1)

He professes to know nothing about any thing except the fact that he owes Three Giulii

307

(1)

He accuses his Creditor of being more inhuman than even Hippocrates would permit a physician to be

308

(1)

He breaks out into the following shocking abuse of his Creditor

308

(1)

He compares his case with that of Juvenal's "Viator vacuus, qui coram latrone cantat"

309

(1)

He says that if the transmutation of metals were possible, he would content himself with coining Three Giulii

309

(1)

His Creditor is compared to a cat, which first plays with its victim and then slits its windpipe

310

(1)

He wishes he could have the eloquence of Cicero

310

(1)

He thinks his Creditor ought to admire even a refusal, if given in proper Spartan fashion

310

(1)

He narrates how Father Tyber takes the subject of his ditties in dudgeon

311

(1)

He anticipates in fancy the occurrence of one of the actual experiences of Baron Munchausen

311

(1)

He says that his Creditor is a more terrible sight than a Comet, because his movements cannot be calculated on before-hand

312

(1)

He tells his Creditor that the more he's dunned, the more he won't pay one stiver!

312

(1)

He threatens finally to escape into some desert, turn jackass, and live on thistles

313

(1)

1843

313

(15)

Iceland-Moss Tea

313

(2)

The Sheik of Mount Sinai

315

(2)

To a Skating Negro

317

(1)

The Alexandrine Metre

318

(1)

The King of Congo and his Hundred Wives

319

(1)

Sand-Songs

320

(3)

I Sing of Sand!

320

(1)

II Weapon-like, this ever-wounding Wind

321

(1)

III 'Twere worth much lore

321

(1)

IV Would I were the stream

321

(1)

V Gulls are flying

322

(1)

VI Mist robes the moss-grown castle-walls

322

(1)

Grabbe

323

(3)

My Themes

326

(2)

1844

328

(35)

Holiness to the Lord

328

(1)

The Bride of the Dead

328

(1)

Hope

329

(1)

Nature More Than Science

329

(1)

Forward!

330

(1)

Where Are They?

331

(2)

The Minstrel's Motherland

333

(1)

Durand of Blonden

334

(1)

Schnapps

335

(1)

The Coming Event

336

(1)

Lola

337

(1)

Von Blue-Beard

338

(6)

Stanza (See how those worlds)

344

(1)

Good Counsel

345

(1)

The Caramanian Exile

345

(3)

The Wail and the Warning of the Three Khalenders

348

(2)

Love and Madness

350

(1)

Heaven First of All within Ourselves

351

(1)

A Kasseedeh (I sought for the Prayerful Man)

352

(1)

The Thugs' Ditty

353

(1)

The Soffees' Ditty

353

(2)

The Fight of Ul-Walladj

355

(5)

A Lane for Freedom

360

(2)

Our Fatherland

362

(1)

NOTES

363