Chapter I: Front Matter

DEIRDRE WED

AND OTHER POEMS

WILT THOU ADVENTURE ON THE GULFS OF MORNING?
COME, THEN, AND SUFFER THESE
SELF-MUTTERING CITIES THAT HAVE LOST HORIZONS
TO SINK BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS AND THE TREES.

DEIRDRE WED
AND OTHER POEMS

BY

HERBERT TRENCH

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METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET, STRAND
LONDON
1901

_Copyrighted in the United States of America_

CONTENTS

DEIRDRE WED— PAGE 1. _The Chanters_ 3 2. _Fintan_ 5 3. _Cir_ 16 4. _Urmael_ 31 5. _Fintan_ 53 Ode on a Silver Birch 59 A Charge 64 Song for the Funeral of a Boy 66 Come, let us make love deathless 69 Claviers at Night 70 The Man Digging 75 Schiehallion 76 The Shell 78 The Rock of Cloud 79 She comes not when Noon is on the roses 85 The Night 86 Maurya’s Song 88 Tired with the day’s monotony 90 You were stay’d in heart on heaven 91 The Bloom 92 In the Roman Amphitheatre, Verona 94 A Winter Song 95 The Nutter 97 Shakespeare 101

Notes 104

DEIRDRE WED

I
THE CHANTERS