Published sources attributed in notes and collations—

LHS (1879) Lyra Hibernica Sacra (2nd edn.). Ed. W. MacIlwaine. Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, 1879.

Hibernia (June 1882) Hibernia (Dublin). June 1882 (the second of four issues in all).

PPNC (1891) The Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Alfred H. Miles (1891; rev. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1906).

P1914Edward Dowden. Poems. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent, 1914.

AT THE OAR

1. I dare not lift a glance to you, yet stay

2. Ye Gracious Ones, still save me, hovering near;

3. If music live upon mine inward ear,

4. I know ye lean bright brow to brow, and say

5. Your secret things; if rippling breezes play

6. Cool on my cheeks, it is those robes ye wear

7. Th at wave, and shadowy fragrance of your hair

8. Drifted, the fierce noon fervour to allay,

9. Fierce fervour, ceaseless stroke, small speed, and I

10. Find grim contentment in the servile mood;

11. But should I gaze in yon untrammeled sky

12. Once, or behold your dewy eyes, my blood

13. Would madden, and I should fling with one free cry

14. My body headlong in the whelming flood.

THE DIVINING ROD

1. Here some time flowed my springs and sent a cry

2. Of joy before them up the shining air,

3. While morn was new, and heaven all blue and bare;

4. Here dipped the swallow to a tenderer sky,

5. And o'er my flowers lean'd some pure mystery

6. Of liquid eyes and golden-glimmering hair;

7. For which now, drouth and death, a bright despair,

8. Shardes, choking slag, the world's dust small and dry.

9. Yet turn not hence thy faithful foot, O thou,

10. Diviner of my buried life; pace round,

11. Poising the hazel-wand; believe and wait,

12. Listen and lean; ah, listen! even now

13. Stirrings and mumurings of the underground

14. Prelude the flash and outbreak of my fate.

SALOME

(BY HENRI REGNAULT)

1. Fair sword of doom, and bright with martyr blood,

2. Thee Regnault saw not as mine eyes have seen…