Poetry

Poetry

By W. B. Yeats.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. Song of the Faeries
4. Love and Death
5. The Seeker
   1. Scene I
   2. Scene II
6. In a Drawing-Room
7. Life
8. The Two Titans
9. On Mr. Nettleship’s Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy
10. Remembrance
11. Love Song
12. In Church
13. A Summer Evening
14. In the Firelight
15. Where My Books Go
16. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
17. The Wanderings of Usheen
    1. Book I
    2. Book II
    3. Book III
18. The Danaan Quicken Tree
19. Wisdom and Dreams
20. Time and the Witch Vivien
21. Kanva on Himself
22. The Phantom Ship
23. A Lover’s Quarrel Among the Fairies
24. How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent
25. The Fairy Doctor
26. The Priest and the Fairy
27. The Fairy Pedant
28. She Who Dwelt Among the Sycamores
29. A Legend
30. Street Dancers
31. Quatrains and Aphorisms
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
32. When You Are Sad
33. The Rose
    1. To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time
    2. Fergus and the Druid
    3. Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea
    4. The Rose of the World
    5. The Rose of Peace
    6. The Rose of Battle
    7. A Faery Song
    8. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    9. A Cradle Song
    10. The Pity of Love
    11. The Sorrow of Love
    12. When You Are Old
    13. The White Birds
    14. A Dream of Death
    15. The Countess Cathleen in Paradise
    16. Who Goes with Fergus
    17. The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
    18. The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
    19. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
    20. The Ballad of Father Gilligan
    21. The Two Trees
    22. To Ireland in the Coming Times
34. Crossways
    1. The Sad Shepherd
    2. The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
    3. Anashuya and Vijaya
    4. The Indian Upon God
    5. The Indian to His Love
    6. The Falling of the Leaves
    7. Ephemera
    8. The Madness of King Goll
    9. The Stolen Child
    10. To an Isle in the Water
    11. Down by the Salley Gardens
    12. The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
    13. The Ballad of Father O’Hart
    14. The Ballad of Moll Magee
    15. The Ballad of the Foxhunter
35. To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire
36. A Song of the Rosy Cross
37. The Friends That Have It I Do Wrong
38. Accursed Who Brings to Light of Day
39. The Well and the Tree
40. The Wind Among the Reeds
    1. The Hosting of the Sidhe
    2. The Everlasting Voices
    3. The Moods
    4. The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
    5. The Host of the Air
    6. The Fisherman
    7. A Cradle Song
    8. Into the Twilight
    9. The Song of Wandering Aengus
    10. The Song of the Old Mother
    11. The Heart of the Woman
    12. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
    13. He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved and Longs for the End of the World
    14. He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
    15. He Reproves the Curlew
    16. He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
    17. A Poet to His Beloved
    18. He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
    19. To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
    20. The Cap and Bells
    21. The Valley of the Black Pig
    22. The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods
    23. He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
    24. He Tells of the Perfect Beauty
    25. He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
    26. He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved
    27. The Blessed
    28. The Secret Rose
    29. Maid Quiet
    30. The Travail of Passion
    31. The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends
    32. A Lover Speaks to the Hearers of His Songs in Coming Days
    33. The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers
    34. He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
    35. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
    36. He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellation of Heaven
    37. The Fiddler of Dooney
41. The Old Age of Queen Maeve
42. Baile and Aillinn
43. In the Seven Woods
    1. In the Seven Woods
    2. The Arrow
    3. The Folly of Being Comforted
    4. Old Memory
    5. Never Give All the Heart
    6. The Withering of the Boughs
    7. Adam’s Curse
    8. The Old Men Admirings Themselves in the Water
    9. Under the Moon
    10. The Ragged Wood
    11. O Do Not Love Too Long
    12. The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and Themselves
44. Introductory Poems from “The Shadowy Waters”
    1. The Shadowy Waters
    2. The Harp of Aengus
45. From The Green Helmet and Other Poems
    1. His Dream
    2. A Woman Homer Sung
    3. The Consolation
    4. No Second Troy
    5. Reconciliation
    6. King and No King
    7. Peace
    8. Against Unworthy Praise
    9. The Fascination of What’s Difficult
    10. A Drinking Song
    11. The Coming of Wisdom with Time
    12. On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature
    13. To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
    14. The Mask
    15. Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
    16. At the Abbey Theatre
    17. These Are the Clouds
    18. At Galway Races
    19. A Friend’s Illness
    20. All Things Can Tempt Me
    21. The Young Man’s Song
46. Responsibilities
    1. Introductory Rhymes
    2. The Grey Rock
    3. The Two Kings
    4. To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if It Were Proved the People Wanted Pictures
    5. September 1913
    6. To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
    7. Paudeen
    8. To a Shade
    9. When Helen Lived
    10. On Those That Hated The Playboy of the Western World, 1907
    11. The Three Beggars
    12. The Three Hermits
    13. Beggar to Beggar Cried
    14. Running to Paradise
    15. The Hour Before Dawn
    16. The Realists
    17. I: The Witch
    18. II: The Peacock
    19. The Mountain Tomb
    20. I: To a Child Dancing in the Wind
    21. II: Two Years Later
    22. A Memory of Youth
    23. Fallen Majesty
    24. Friends
    25. The Cold Heaven
    26. That the Night Come
    27. An Appointment
    28. I: The Magi
    29. I: The Dolls
    30. A Coat
    31. Closing Rhymes
47. The Wild Swans at Coole
    1. Preface
    2. The Wild Swans at Coole
    3. In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
       1. 1
       2. 2
       3. 3
       4. 4
       5. 5
       6. 6
       7. 7
       8. 8
       9. 9
       10. 10
       11. 11
       12. 12
    4. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
    5. Men Improve with the Years
    6. The Collar-Bone of a Hare
    7. Under the Round Tower
    8. Solomon to Sheba
    9. The Living Beauty
    10. A Song
    11. To a Young Beauty
    12. To a Young Girl
    13. The Scholars
    14. Tom O’Roughley
    15. The