Poetry

• Poems. Published in Dublin by M. H. Gill and Son in 1882. An extensive collection edited by the poet's son.
• The Book of Irish Ballads. Published in Dublin by James Duffy in 1846, revised in 1869.
• Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics, Original and Translated. Published in Dublin by James McGlashan in 1850.
• The Bell-Founder, And Other Poems. Published in London by David Bogue in 1857.
• Underglimpses, And Other Poems. Published in London by David Bogue in 1857.
• Irish Legends And Lyrics. Published in Dublin by McGlashan & Gill in 1858.
• Poems of Denis F. McCarthy [sic], with Life and Notes. Published in Dublin and Cork by The Educational Company, Ltd., no date.

Drama

• Dramas of Calderon, Tragic, Comic, and Legendary. Published in London by Charles Dolman in 1853. Containing The Constant Prince (El Principe Constante), The Secret in Words (El Secreto a Voces), The Physician of His own Honour (El Medico de Su Honra), Love after Death (Amar despues de la Muerte), The Purgatory of Saint Patrick (El Purgatorio de San Patricio), and The Scarf and the Flower (La Banda y la Flor). Rebound with a foreword in 1886 for the Memorial Fund Committee.
• Love the Greatest Enchantment: The Sorceries of Sin: The Devotion of the Cross. Published in London by Longtan, Green, Longman and Roberts in 1861. Containing (with original language texts) El Mayor Encanto Amor, Los Encantos de la Culpa (an Auto Sacramental), and La Devocion de la Cruz.
• Mysteries of Corpus Christi. Published in Dublin by James Duffy in 1867. Containing Balshazza's Feast (La Cena de Balthasar) and The Divine Philothea (La Divina Filotea), two Auto Sacramentales.
• The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria. Published in Dublin by John F. Fowler in 1870. Containing Los dos amantes del cielo: Crisanto y Daria.
• Calderon's Dramas. Published in London by Henry S. King in 1873. Containing Life is a Dream (La Vida es Sueño), The Wonder-Working Magician (El Magico Prodigioso), and a new edition of The Purgatory of St. Patrick (Purgatorio de San Patricio).
• Daybreak at Capacabana. La Aurora en Copacabana was completed shortly before the translator's death.

Biography

• The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland. Published in Dublin by James Duffy in 1846.
• Shelley's Early Life. Published in London by John Camden Hotten in 1872.

WAITING FOR THE MAY

 Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
   Waiting for the May--

Waiting for the pleasant rambles,Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,
 With the woodbine alternating,
   Scent the dewy way.
 Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
   Waiting for the May.



 Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
   Longing for the May--

Longing to escape from study,To the young face fair and ruddy,
 And the thousand charms belonging
   To the summer's day.
 Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
   Longing for the May.



 Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
   Sighing for the May--

Sighing for their sure returning,When the summer beams are burning,
 Hopes and flowers that, dead or dying,
   All the winter lay.
 Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
   Sighing for the May.



 Ah! my heart is pained and throbbing,
   Throbbing for the May--

Throbbing for the sea-side billows,Or the water-wooing willows,
 Where in laughing and in sobbing
   Glide the streams away.
 Ah! my heart is pained and throbbing,
   Throbbing for the May.



 Waiting sad, dejected, weary,
   Waiting for the May.

Spring goes by with wasted warnings,Moon-lit evenings, sun-bright mornings;
 Summer comes, yet dark and dreary
   Life still ebbs away:
 Man is ever weary, weary,
   Waiting for the May!