The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic]
about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy.
JFLW
gave two different accounts of what had made her a poet. In one, it was reading The Nation's Valentine, To the Ladies of Ireland, in which Richard D'Alton Williams
urged Irishwomen to sing...
Intertextuality and Influence
Katharine Tynan
Yeats
felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you,
qtd. in
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.