Table Of ContentYEATS'S
POEMS
YEATS'S
POEMS
Edited and annotated by A NormanJeffares
with an appendix by Warwick Gould
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Second edi tion 1991
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The quotations from the work of W. B. Yeats are reprinted by kind perm iss ion of
Mr Michael Butler Yeats. The maps in Appendix Two are reproduced by kind
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CONTENTS
Preface to the second edition XVI11
Introduction XIX
THE W ANDERINGS OF OISIN
CROSSWAYS 37
The Song of the Happy Shepherd 41
The Sad Shepherd 42
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes 43
Anashuya and Vijaya 44
The Indian upon God 48
The Indian to His Love 49
The Falling of the Leaves 49
Ephemera 50
The Madness of King Goll 51
The Stolen Child 53
To an Isle in the Water 54
Down by the Salley Gardens 55
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 55
The Ballad of Father O'Hart 56
The Ballad of Moll Magee 57
The Ballad of the Foxhunter 59
THE ROSE 61
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time 65
Fergus and the Druid 66
Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea 68
The Rose of the W orld 71
The Rose of Peace 71
The Rose of Batde 72
A Facry Song 73
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 74
A Cradlc Song 74
The Pity of Love 75
The Sorrow of Love 75
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When You are Old
The White Birds
A Dream of Death
The Countess Cathleen in Paradise 77
Who Goes with Fergus? 78
The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland 79
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the lrish
Novelists 80
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner 81
The Ballad of Father Gilligan 82
The Two Trees 83
To So me I have Talked with by the Fire 84
To Ireland in the Coming Times 85
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS 87
The Hosting of the Sidhe 89
The Everiasting Voices 89
The Moods 90
The Lover teils of the Rose in his Heart 90
The Host of the Air 90
The Fish 92
The Unappeasable Host 92
Into the Twilight 93
The Song ofWandering Aengus 93
Tbe Song of the Old Mother 94
The Heart of the Woman 94
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love 95
He mourns for the Change that has co me upon hirn and his
Beloved, and Iongs for the End of the World 95
He bids his Beloved be at Peace 96
He reproves the Curlew 96
He remembers Forgotten Beauty 97
A Poet to his Beloved 98
He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes 98
To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear 99
The Cap and Beils 99
The Valley of the Black Pig 100
The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods 101
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He teIls of a Valley fuH of Lovers 102
He teils of the Perfeet Beauty 102
He hears the Cry of the Sedge 102
He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved 103
The Blessed 103
The Secret Rose 1°4
Maid Quiet 105
The Travail of Passion 106
The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends 106
The Lover speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in Coming
Days 106
The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers 107
He wishes his Beloved were Dead 107
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 108
He thinks of his Past Greatness when aPart of the
Constellations of Heaven 108
The Fiddler of Dooney 109
THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE III
BAlLE AND AILLINN 119
IN THE SEVEN WOODS 127
In the Seven Woods 129
The Arrow 129
The Folly of Being Comforted 130
Old Memory 130
Never Give all the Heart 131
The W ithering of the Boughs 13 1
Adam's Curse 132
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland 133
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water 134
Under the Moon 134
The Ragged W ood 135
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Do Not Love Too Long 135
The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on
Themselves 136
The Happy Townland 137
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THE SHADOWY WATERS 139
[Introductory Lines] 143
The Harp of Aengus 145
The Shadowy Waters 147
FROM 'THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS' 181
His Dream 183
A W oman Homer Sung 184
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No Second Troy 185
Reconciliation 185
King and No King 186
Peace 186
Against Unworthy Praise 187
The Fascination of What's Difficu1t 188
A Drinking Song 188
The Coming of Wisdom with Time 188
On hearing that the Students of our New University have
joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature 189
To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets,
Imitators of His and Mine 189
The Mask 189
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation 190
At the Abbey Theatre 190
These are the Clouds 191
At Galway Races 191
A Friend's Illness 192
All Things can Tempt Me 192
Brown Penny 193
RESPONSIBILITIES 195
[Introductory Rhymes] 197
The Grey Rock 199
The Two Kings 202
To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to
the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People
wanted Pictures 208
September 1913 210
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To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing 211
Paudeen 21 I
To a Shade 212
When Helen Lived 213
On those that hated 'The Playboy of the Western World',
1907 213
The Three Beggars 214
The Three Hermits 216
Beggar to Beggar Cried 217
Running to Paradise 217
The Hour before Dawn 218
A Song from 'The Player Queen' 222
The Realists 222
I. The Witch 223
11. The Peacock 223
The Mountain Tomb 223
I. To a Child Dancing in thc Wind 224
11. Two Years Later 225
A Memory ofYouth 225
Fallen Majesty 226
Friends 226
The Cold Heaven 227
That the Night Come 228
An Appointment 228
The Magi 229
The Dolls 229
A Coat 230
[Closing Rhymes] 230
THE WILD SW ANS AT COOLE 231
The Wild Swans at Coole 233
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 234
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death 237
Men Improve with the Years 238
The Collar-Bone of a Hare 238
Under the Round Tower 239
Solo mon to Sheba 240
The Living Beauty 241
x CONTENTS
A ~ong
To a Young Beauty
To a Young Girl
The Scholars
Tom O'Roughley
Shepherd and Goatherd
Lines Written in Dejection
The Dawn
On Woman
The Fisherman
Tbe Hawk
Memory
Her Praise
The People
His Phoenix
A Thought from Propertius
Broken Dreams
A Deep-sworn Vow
Presences
The Balloon of the Mind
To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no
On being asked for a War Poem
In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
Upon a Dying Lady
I. Her Courtesy
11. Certain Artists bring her Dolls and Drawings
111. She turns the Dolls' Faces to the Wall
IV. The End ofDay
v. Her Race
VI. Her Courage
VII. Her Friends bring her a Christmas Tree
Ego Dominus Tuus
A Prayer on goiog ioto my House
The Phases of the Moon
The Cat and the Moon
Tbe Saint and the Hunchback
Two Songs of a Fool
Another Song of a Fool
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
