CONTENTS
TRANSLATIONS
SEA SPRAY
MARCH WINDS
MIDIR THE PROUD INVITES QUEEN ETAIN TO FAIRYLAND [1]
THE SPELL-STRUCK
COIS NA TEINEADH
WILLIAM MORRIS
TO JOHN O'LEARY
THE GRAVE OF RURY
SONG OF MAELDUIN
THE SHANNON AT FOYNES
SONNET
A RAILWAY JOURNEY
CYCLING SONG
BALLADE OF THE "CHESHIRE CHEESE" IN FLEET STREET [3]
DORA
A RING'S SECRET
MOONRISE IN THE ELSTER TANNEN-WALD
AFTER ALL
EVENSONG
IN MEMORIAM: J. T. C. H.
THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS
THE DEAD AT CLONMACNOIS
SONG OF FINN IN PRAISE OF MAY [5]
WENN ICH AN DEINEM HAUSE
EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM
ZWEI KAMMERN HAT DAS HERZ
LADY ISLAND, ON THE CHIEMSEE, BAVARIA
THE THREE RINGS: A FABLE
SEA SPRAY: VERSES
AND TRANSLATIONS
BY T. W. ROLLESTON
MAUNSEL AND CO., LIMITED,
96, MID. ABBEY ST., DUBLIN
1909
All rights reserved
TO
THE LADY OF THE RING
Thanks are due to Messrs. Harrap & Co., London, for permission to include in this volume three poems which are introduced into the writer’s forthcoming prose book, “The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland.” The poems in question are Cois na Teineadh, Midir the Proud, and the Song of Finn. Some others have appeared in the Spectator, the Irish Homestead, and the Westminster Gazette, to the editors of which acknowledgments are due.