Foreword by John Wilson Foster Preface Part I Early Irish Nature Poetry Introduction The Mystery Deer''s Cry St. Columcille of Iona Columcille Fecit Caelius Sedulius Invocation Anonymous Early Irish Nature Poetry The Blackbird by Belfast Lough The Scribe The White Lake The Lark The Hermit''s Song King and Hermit Song of the Sea Summer Has Come Song of Summer Summer is Gone A Song of Winter Arran Buile Suibhne Part II Nature Writing and the Changing Irish Landscape Introduction Thomas Gainsford A Description of Ireland William Allingham Wishing The Fairies The Lover and Birds Among the Heather In a Spring Grove The Ruined Chapel William Hamilton Drummond The Giant''s Causeway, Book First James Clarence Mangan The Dawning of the Day The Fair Hills of Eire, O! The Lovely Land: On a Landscape Painted by Maclise William Makepeace Thackeray From Irish Sketchbook William Carleton From The Black Prophet Emily Lawless From Hurrish: A Study Part III Nature and the Irish Literary Revival Introduction Katharine Tynan The Children of Lir High Summer Indian Summer Nymphs St. Francis to the Birds The Birds'' Bargain The Garden The Wind that Shakes the Barley A E (George Russell) By the Margin of the Great Deep Oversoul The Great Breath The Voice of the Waters A New World A Vision of Beauty Carrowmore Creation The Winds of Angus The Nuts of Knowledge Children of Lir Connla''s Well From The Candle of Vision William Butler Yeats Coole Park, 1929 Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 Who Goes with Fergus? Down by the Salley Gardens In the Seven Woods The Shadowy Waters (Introductory Lines) The Cat and the Moon The Fairy Pedant The Lake Isle of Innisfree The Madness of King Goll The Song of Wandering Aengus . The Stolen Child . The Two Trees . The White Birds . The Wild Swans at Coole . Eva Gore-Booth The Dreamer .

Re-Incarnation . Secret Waters . The Little Waves of Breffny The Weaver John Millington Synge In Kerry To the Oaks of Glencree Prelude In Glencullen On an Island From The Aran Islands Riders to the Sea George Moore Preface and Chapter 1 from The Lake Padraic Colum A Drover A Cradle Song Across the Door The Crane . Dublin Roads . River Mates . Part IV Modern Irish Nature Poetry Introduction . Patrick Kavanaugh . Poplars Lilacs in the City October Canal Bank Walk Having to Live in the Country Inniskeen Road: July Evening On an Apple-Ripe September Morning Primrose Wet Evening in April Louis MacNeice The Sunlight on the Garden .

Wolves . Tree Party Seamus Heaney . Death of a Naturalist The Salmon Fisher to the Fisherman Limbo St. Kevin and the Blackbird . Eavan Boland The Lost Land The River Mountain Time This Moment Ode to Suburbia Escape . A Sparrow Hawk in the Suburbs Moya Cannon Bees under Snow Eavesdropping Two Ivory Swans Winter View from Binn Briocain Primavera The Tube-Case Makers Crannog Hazelnuts John Montague All Legendary Obstacles The Wild Dog Rose The Trout Michael Longley The Osprey Badger Hedgehog Kingfisher Robin Out of the Sea Her Mime of the Lame Seagull Carrigskeewaun Saint Francis to the Birds Derek Mahon The Seasons Achill Aphrodite''s Pool The Mayo Tao Penhurst Place The Woods The Dream Play "A Hermit" Leaves Sean Lysaght Golden Eagle The Clare Island Survey Goldcrest From Bird Sweeney Desmond Egan The Great Blasket Sunday Evening Meadowsweet Snow Snow Snow Snow A Pigeon Dead Envoi Mary O''Malley Absent The Man of Aran Porpoises The Price of Silk is Paid in Gold The Storm Liaden with a Mortgage Briefly Tastes the Stars Rosemarie Rowley Osborn O h - Aimbirgin; A Cry from the Heart of a Poet--Morning in Beara The Blackbird of Derry of the Cairn In Praise of the Hill Between of Howth Blind Seamus McCourt: Welcome to the Bird'' Kitty Dwyer Part V The Literature of Irish Naturalists Introduction John Tyndall Belfast Address Robert Lloyd Praeger From The Way That I Went Michael Viney From A Year''s Turning From The Irish Times , "Another Life" Tim Robinson From Connemara: Listening to the Wind , "Preface" From Connemara: Listening to the Wind , "The Boneyard" John Moriarty From Invoking Ireland Appendix: Environmental Organizations in Ireland Acknowledgments Bibliography Index.