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Poems MacCarthy, Florence Denis

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4. The following are the titles and dates of publication: In 1853,<br />

"The Constant Prince," "The Secret in Words," "The Physician of his own<br />

Honour," "Love after Death," "The Purgatory of St. Patrick," "The Scarf<br />

and the Flower." In 1861, "The Greatest Enchantment," "The Sorceries of<br />

Sin," "Devotion of the Cross." In 1867, "Belshazzar's Feast," "The<br />

Divine Philothea" (with Essays from the German of Lorinser, and the<br />

Spanish of Gonzales Pedroso). In 1870, "Chrysanthus and Daria, the Two<br />

Lovers of Heaven." In 1873, "The Wonder-working Magician," "Life is a<br />

Dream," "The Purgatory of St. Patrick" (a new translation entirely in<br />

the assonant metre). Introductions and notes are added to all these<br />

plays. Another, "Daybreak in Copacabana," was finished a few months<br />

before his death, and has not been published.<br />

5. When the author of "Evangeline" visited Europe for the last time in<br />

1869, they met in Italy. The sonnets at p. 174 [To Henry Wadsworth<br />

Longfellow] refer to this occasion.<br />

6. The "Campo de Estio," described in the lines "Not Known."<br />

7. A fortnight after that of Longfellow. His attached friend and early<br />

associate, Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee, perished by assassination at Ottawa on<br />

the same day and month fourteen years ago.<br />

8. Edited by his friend Br. W. K. Sullivan, President of Queen's<br />

College, Cork, who, I may add, has in preparation a paper on the "Voyage<br />

of St. Brendan," and on other ancient Irish accounts of voyages, of<br />

which he finds an explanation in Keltic mythology. The paper will<br />

appear in the Transactions of the American Geographical Society.<br />

9. "The Combat at the Ford" being Fragment III. of his "Legends of<br />

Ireland's Heroic Age." London, 1882.<br />

10. In his "Beautes de la Poesie Anglaise, Rayons et Reflets," &c.<br />

11. The first meeting was held on April 15th, at the Mansion House,<br />

Dublin, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. Charles<br />

Dawson, M. P.

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