An Origin Like Water · Collected Poems 1957-1987 by Boland, Eavan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Contents Preface From New Territory 1967

Athene’s Song From the Painting Back from Market by Chardin New Territory After the Irish of Aodghan O’Rathaille The Flight of the Earls A Cynic at Kilmainham Jail Belfast vs. Dublin Yeats in Civil War The Poets Mirages The Pilgrim Migration Three Songs for a Legend

1. A Lullaby for Lir’s Son 2. The Malediction 3. Elegy for a Youth Changed to a Swan

The King and the Troubadour Requiem for a Personal Friend The Winning of Etain

I From The War Horse 1975

Dedication: The Other Woman and the Novelist The War Horse The Famine Road Child of Our Time The Hanging Judge A Soldier’s Son The Greek Experience The Laws of Love Sisters

O Fons Bandusiae Chorus of the Shadows From the Irish of Pangur Ban The Atlantic Ocean Conversation with an Inspector of Taxes about Poetry

III

Ode to Suburbia Naoise at Four Cyclist with Cut Branches Song The Botanic Gardens Prisoners Ready for Flight Anon Suburban Woman

From In Her Own Image 1980

Tirade for the Mimic Muse In Her Own Image In His Own Image Anorexic Mastectomy Solitary Menses Witching Exhibitionist Making Up

From Night Feed 1982

Degas’s Laundresses Woman in Kitchen A Ballad of Beauty and Time It’s a Woman’s World Daphne with Her Thighs in Bark The New Pastoral The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish The Woman Changes Her Skin Pose Patchwork Lights Domestic Interior

1. Night Feed 2. Monotony 3. Hymn 4. Partings 5. Energies 6. The Muse Mother 7. Endings 8. In the Garden 9. After a Childhood Away from Ireland 10. Fruit on a Straight-Sided Tray 11. Domestic Interior

From The Journey 1987

I Remember Mise Eire Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening The Oral Tradition Fever The Unlived Life Lace The Bottle Garden Suburban Woman: A Detail The Briar Rose The Women Nocturne The Fire in Our Neighborhood On Holiday Growing Up There and Back The Wild Spray The Journey Envoi Listen. This Is the Noise of Myth An Irish Childhood in England: 1951 Fond Memory Canaletto in the National Gallery of Ireland The Emigrant Irish Tirade for the Lyric Muse The Woman Takes Her Revenge on the Moon The Glass King

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