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John Millington Synge's Poetry, by title

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  • A Translation From Petrarch
    (He is Jealous of the Heavens and the Earth)
    What a grudge I am bearing the earth that has its arms about her, and is holding that f
    6 lines
  • Beg-Innish
    Bring Kateen-beug and Maurya Jude
    To dance in Beg-Innish,
    25 lines
  • Danny
    One night a score of Erris men,
    A score I'm told and nine,
    41 lines
  • Dread
                Beside a chapel I'd a room looked down,
                Where all
    9 lines
  • I've Thirty Months
    I've thirty months, and that's my pride,
    Before my age's a double score,
    8 lines
  • In Glencullen
    Thrush, linnet, stare and wren,
    Brown lark beside the sun,
    8 lines
  • In Kerry

    We heard the thrushes by the shore and sea,
    12 lines
  • On An Anniversary
    [After reading the dates in a book of Lyrics.]
    With Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen
    9 lines
  • Prelude
    Still south I went and west and south again,
    Through Wicklow from the morning till the night,
    8 lines
  • Queens
    Seven dog-days we let pass
    Naming Queens in Glenmacnass,
    26 lines
  • The Curse
    [To a sister of an enemy of the author's who disapproved of `The Playboy']
        Lord, confound this surly sister,
    10 lines
  • The Passing Of The Shee
    [After looking at one of A.E.'s pictures.]
    Adieu, sweet Angus, Maeve and Fand,
    9 lines
  • To The Oaks Of Glencree
    MY arms are round you, and I lean
    Against you, while the lark
    8 lines
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