wiki-illiam #109: q3

[dubdobdee]

3.

i: Whence all Mannions?
ii: Who loved his country and loved his lass?
iii: A long-legged bird flew over three Chinamen carved in what?
iv: Who forgot cruelly that even lovers are not immune from drowning?
v: Whose pupils would range from round to crescent and crescent to round?
vi: Where would I build a modest home and live in solitude, growing beans and keeping bees?
vii: Whose purity was likened favourably to a tall candle before the crucifix?
viii: Who wore small holes in his shoes and large holes in his gown?
ix: Where were the fiddler's cousin and brother priests?
x: Where did my cap acquire a halfpenny?

COMPLETED, ftb we are surrounded by actual/real poitry (viz Yeats) scholards :)


(I've supplied correct titles where we hadn't quite got them yet, but the answers are attributed to those who clearly know the poem itself).
i: "Three Songs to the One Burden" ("All Mannions come from Manannan"), looked up by alextiefling
ii: "Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites", pointed at by kerrypolka, confirmed by marnameow
iii: is "Lapis Lazuli", variously spelt by marnameow
iv: is "A Man Young and Old: III: The Mermaid", known by marnameow
v: is "The Cat and the Moon", INEVITABLY known by marnameow
vi: is "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", spotted by kerrypolka, mocked by marnameow
vii: is "Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland", googled by twitter-user petrajane
viii: is "The Ballad of Father O'Hart", googled by twitter-user petrajane
ix: is "The Fiddler of Dooney", googled by twitter-user petrajane
x: is "Running to Paradise", googled by twitter-user petrajane

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Cathleen, I think.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Confirmed by Googling: it's in Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland:

But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood
Is Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Ah, just seen that petrajane beat me to it.