
A happy New Year, and other verses
by Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
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Chapters (57)
- A Happy New Year AND OTHER VERSES
- A Happy New Year.
- Cradle Song. (Imitated from the Russian.)
- Queen Tamara’s Castle. (Translated from Lermontof.)
- Ulster’s Prayer.
- Dark Donegal.
- Hy-Brasail.
- Bálor of the Great Blows.
- The Garden.
- A Song of Spring.
- The Miráge on Kizil Koom.
- A Dream of Samarkánd.
- At Santa Sophia, Constantinople. (A Fragment.)
- The Hill Cities.
- Florence from San Miniato.
- The Thames.
- In Te, Domine, spero.
- To Miss X. de C. on her Birthday.
- Londonderry City Election, 1885.
- Londonderry City Election, 1913.
- To M. S. (A Fragment.)
- The Song of Timùr the Lame. (Imitated from the Persian)
- Catullus, Carmina xxxi., l. 12 to end.
- Catullus, Carmina lxxvi. (Si qua recordanti).
- The Fisherman’s Dream.
- The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Pieters’, February, 1900.
- Senlac.
- Christmas-tide.
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