«THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES JOYCE» by James Joyce

“Chamber Music” is a collection of poems by James Joyce, originally composed of thirty-four love poems. Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment, lending an earthiness to a title first suggested by his brother Stanislaus and which Joyce had come to dislike: “The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent.”
“Pomes Penyeach” is a collection of thirteen short poems written by James Joyce. It was written over a twenty-year period from 1904 to 1924. Although paid scant attention on its initial publication, this slender volume has proven surprisingly durable, and a number of its poems continue to appear in anthologies to this day.
James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.
Content:
Chamber Music
Pomes Penyeach
Hue's Hue? or Dalton's Dilemma
Buy a book in brown paper
As I was going to Joyce Saint James'
Father O'Ford
Humptydump Dublin squeaks through his norse
Pennipomes Twoguineaseach
Pour la rîme seulement
A Portrait of the Artist as an Ancient Mariner
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty
Goodbye Zürich, I must leave you O, it is cold and still—alas!
She is at peace where she is sleeping
There was a kind lady called Gregory
There was a young priest named Delaney
There is a weird poet called Russell
Have you heard of the admiral
There once was a Celtic librarian
I said: I will go down to where
Though we are leaving youth behind
The flower I gave rejected lies
O, there are two brothers, the Fays
C'era una volta, una bella bambina
Dear, I am asking a favour
The Holy Office
Gas from a Burner
There is a young gallant named Sax Claude Sykes
Solomon
Now let awhile my messmates be…