Joseph Mary Plunkett

Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887–1916) was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. A leader of the 1916 Easter Rising and one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation, he was executed in May 1916.

The poems printed here are those given in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917), edited by D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee; the text is taken from that anthology.