THE TRANSLATIONS

To a Wine Jar

Prayer

The Digging Skeleton

Ugolino

`The small bird'

`Look far. Cast'

The Names of the Hare

Song of the soul that delights in knowing God by faith

Fountains in the sea

Angle

The tear

Old people in the shade

The first words

Proper names

Miraculous Grass

Mo Mhile Stor

Will Travel

Exile's Return

The Clay Pipes

Lament

After Liberation

Inferno: Canto I

Inferno: Canto II

Inferno: Canto III

Do you remember the beach

The country we come from

Sometimes I dream

Maybe there's somebody dreaming me

It's snowing hostility

The morning after I die

Inhabited by a song

Loneliness

Hunt

As if

Lament for Timoleague

The Yellow Bittern

Raftery's Killeadan

I am Raftery

A School of Poetry Closes

Poet to Blacksmith

Colmcille the Scribe

The Glamoured

Jesus and the Sparrows

Saint Brigid's Wish

Elegy: The God in the Sea Greets Bran in the Land of the Waves

Arion

The Civil Power

`Imagine striking a match that night in the cave'

Flight into Egypt

Eclogue IX

Anything Can Happen

Summer

Moling's Gloss

Colmcille's Derry

The Monk's Tryst

Grainne's Words about Diarmait

Pangur Ban

Hallaig

`I sing of a maiden'

Caedmon's Hymn

The Light of Heaven

Testimony: What Passed at Colonus

Testimony: The Ajax Incident

To the Poets of St Andrews

The Apple Orchard

After the Fire

Roman Campagna

The First Step

Dionysos in Procession

The Satrapy

Sculptor of Tyana

The Displeasure of Selefkides

`The rest I'll speak of to the ones below in Hades'

Deor

Charles IX to Ronsard

Actaeon

A Herbal

The Kite

August X

The Owl

The Fallen Oak

The Foxglove

The Dapple-Grey Mare

Du Bellay in Rome

`Wind fierce to-night'

`Pent under high tree canopy'

`Towards Ireland a grey eye'

`Birdsong from a willow tree'

Brothers

The Drowned Blackbird

The Fisherman

Sweeney Astray

The Cure at Troy

The Midnight Verdict

Laments

Beowulf

Diary of One Who Vanished

The Burial at Thebes

The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

The Last Walk

Aeneid Book VI

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