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Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface To The Second Edition Preface Part One: Lyrical

Crossways (1889)

1 The Song of the Happy Shepherd 2 The Sad Shepherd 3 The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes 4 Anashuya and Vijaya 5 The Indian upon God 6 The Indian to his Love 7 The Falling of the Leaves 8 Ephemera 9 The Madness of King Goll 10 The Stolen Child 11 To an Isle in the Water 12 Down by the Salley Gardens 13 The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 14 The Ballad of Father O’Hart 21 15 The Ballad of Moll Magee 16 The Ballad of the Foxhunter

The Rose (1893)

17 To the Rose upon the Rood of Time 18 Fergus and the Druid 19 Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea 20 The Rose of the World 21 The Rose of Peace 22 The Rose of Battle 23 A Faery Song 24 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 25 A Cradle Song 26 The Pity of Love 27 The Sorrow of Love 28 When You are Old 29 The White Birds 30 A Dream of Death 31 The Countess Cathleen in Paradise 32 Who goes with Fergus? 33 The Man who dreamed of Faeryland 34 The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists 35 The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner 36 The Ballad of Father Gilligan 37 The Two Trees 38 To Some I have Talked with by the Fire 39 To Ireland in the Coming Times

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

40 The Hosting of the Sidhe 41 The Everlasting Voices 42 The Moods 43 The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart 44 The Host of the Air 45 The Fish 46 The Unappeasable Host 47 Into the Twilight 48 The Song of Wandering Aengus 49 The Song of the Old Mother 50 The Heart of the Woman 51 The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love 52 He mourns for the Change that has come upon Him and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World 53 He bids his Beloved be at Peace 54 He reproves the Curlew 55 He remembers forgotten Beauty 56 A Poet to his Beloved 57 He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes 58 To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear 59 The Cap and Bells 60 The Valley of the Black Pig 65 61 The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods 62 He tells of a Valley full of Lovers 63 He tells of the Perfect Beauty 64 He hears the Cry of the Sedge 65 He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved 66 The Blessed 67 The Secret Rose 68 Maid Quiet 69 The Travail of Passion 70 The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends 71 The Lover speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in Coming Days 72 The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers 73 He wishes his Beloved were Dead 74 He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 75 He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven 76 The Fiddler of Dooney

In the Seven Woods (1904)

77 In the Seven Woods 78 The Arrow 79 The Folly of being Comforted 80 Old Memory 81 Never give all the Heart 82 The Withering of the Boughs 83 Adam’s Curse 84 Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland 81 85 The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water 86 Under the Moon 87 The Ragged Wood 88 O do not Love Too Long 89 The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves 90 The Happy Townland

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

91 His Dream 92 A Woman Homer sung 93 Words 94 No Second Troy 95 Reconciliation 96 King and no King 97 Peace 98 Against Unworthy Praise 99 The Fascination of What’s Difficult 100 A Drinking Song 101 The Coming of Wisdom with Time 94 102 On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature 103 To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine 104 The Mask 105 Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation 106 At the Abbey Theatre 107 These are the Clouds 108 At Galway Races 109 A Friend’s Illness 110 All Things can tempt Me 111 Brown Penny

Responsibilities (1914)

112 Introductory Rhymes 113 The Grey Rock 103 114 To a Wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures 115 September 1913 116 To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing 117 Paudeen 118 To a Shade 119 When Helen lived 120 On Those that hated ‘The Playboy of the Western World,’ 1907 121 The Three Beggars 122 The Three Hermits 123 Beggar to Beggar cried 124 Running to Paradise 125 The Hour before Dawn 126 A Song from ‘The Player Queen’ 127 The Realists 128 I. The Witch 129 II. The Peacock 130 The Mountain Tomb 131 I. To a Child dancing in the Wind 132 II. Two Years Later 133 A Memory of Youth 134 Fallen Majesty 135 Friends 136 The Cold Heaven 137 That the Night come 138 An Appointment 139 The Magi 140 The Dolls 141 A Coat 142 Closing Rhyme

The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

143 The Wild Swans at Coole 144 In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 145 An Irish Airman foresees his Death 146 Men improve with the Years 147 The Collar-bone of a Hare 148 Under the Round Tower 149 Solomon to Sheba 150 The Living Beauty 151 A Song 152 To a Young Beauty 153 To a Young Girl 154 The Scholars 155 Tom O’Roughley 156 Shepherd and Goatherd 157 Lines written in Dejection 158 The Dawn 159 On Woman 160 The Fisherman 161 The Hawk 162 Memory 163 Her Praise 164 The People 165 His Phoenix 166 A Thought from Propertius 167 Broken Dreams 168 A Deep-sworn Vow 169 Presences 170 The Balloon of the Mind 171 To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no 172 On being asked for a War Poem 173 In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen Upon a Dying Lady: 174 I. Her Courtesy 175 II. Certain Artists bring her Dolls and Drawings 176 III. She turns the Dolls’ Faces to the Wall 177 IV. The End of Day 178 V. Her Race 179 VI. Her Courage 180 VII. Her Friends bring her a Christmas Tree 181 Ego Dominus Tuus 182 A Prayer on going into my House 183 The Phases of the Moon 184 The Cat and the Moon 185 The Saint and the Hunchback 186 Two Songs of a Fool 187 Another Song of a Fool 188 The Double Vision of Michael Robartes

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)

189 Michael Robartes and the Dancer 190 Solomon and the Witch 191 An Image from a Past Life 192 Under Saturn 193 Easter, 1916 194 Sixteen Dead Men 195 The Rose Tree 196 On a Political Prisoner 197 The Leaders of the Crowd 198 Towards Break of Day 199 Demon and Beast

The Second Coming

201 A Prayer for my Daughter 202 A Meditation in Time of War 203 To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee

The Tower (1928)

204 Sailing to Byzantium 205 The Tower

Meditations in Time of Civil War:

206 I. Ancestral Houses 207 II. My House 208 III. My Table 209 IV. My Descendants 210 V. The Road at My Door 211 VI. The Stare’s Nest by My Window 212 VII. I see Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness 205 213 Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen 214 The Wheel 215 Youth and Age 216 The New Faces 217 A Prayer for my Son 218 Two Songs from a Play 219 Fragments 220 Leda and the Swan 221 On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac 222 Among School Children 223 Colonus’ Praise 224 Wisdom 225 The Fool by the Roadside 226 Owen Aherne and his Dancers

A Man Young and Old:

227 I. First Love 228 II. Human Dignity 229 III. The Mermaid 230 IV. The Death of the Hare 231 V. The Empty Cup 232 VI. His Memories 233 VII. The Friends of his Youth 234 VIII. Summer and Spring 235 IX. The Secrets of the Old 236 X. His Wildness 237 XI. From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ 238 The Three Monuments 239 All Souls’ Night

The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

240 In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz 241 Death 242 A Dialogue of Self and Soul 243 Blood and the Moon 244 Oil and Blood 245 Veronica’s Napkin 246 Symbols 247 Spilt Milk 248 The Nineteenth Century and After 249 Statistics 250 Three Movements 251 The Seven Sages 252 The Crazed Moon 253 Coole Park, 1929 254 Coole and Ballylee, 1931 255 For Anne Gregory 256 Swift’s Epitaph 257 At Algeciras—a Meditation upon Death 258 The Choice 259 Mohini Chatterjee 260 Byzantium 261 The Mother of God 262 Vacillation 263 Quarrel in Old Age 264 The Results of Thought 265 Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors 266 Remorse for Intemperate Speech 267 Stream and Sun at Glendalough

Words for Music Perhaps:

268 I. Crazy Jane and the Bishop 269 II. Crazy Jane Reproved 270 III. Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment 271 IV. Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman 272 V. Crazy Jane on God 273 VI. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 274 VII. Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers 275 VIII. Girl’s Song 276 IX. Young Man’s Song 277 X. Her Anxiety 278 XI. His Confidence 279 XII. Love’s Loneliness 280 XIII. Her Dream 281 XIV. His Bargain 282 XV. Three Things 283 XVI. Lullaby 284 XVII. After Long Silence 285 XVIII. Mad as the Mist and Snow 286 XIX. Those Dancing Days are Gone 287 XX. ‘I am of Ireland’ 288 XXI. The Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick 289 XXII. Tom the Lunatic 290 XXIII. Tom at Cruachan 291 XXIV. Old Torn again 292 XXV. The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus

A Woman Young and Old:

293 I. Father and Child 294 II. Before the World was Made 295 III. A First Confession 296 IV. Her Triumph 297 V. Consolation 298 VI. Chosen 299 VII. Parting 300 VIII. Her Vision in the Wood 301 IX. A Last Confession 302 X. Meeting 303 XI. From the ‘Antigone’

[Parnell’s Funeral and Other Poems (1935)]

304 Parnell’s Funeral 305 Alternative Song for the Severed Head in ‘The King of the Great Clock Tower’ 306 Two Songs Rewritten for the Tune’s Sake 307 A Prayer for Old Age 308 Church and State 283 Supernatural Songs: 309 I. Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn 310 II. Ribh denounces Patrick 311 III. Ribh in Ecstasy 312 IV. There 313 V. Ribh considers Christian Love insufficient 314 VI. He and She 315 VII. What Magic Drum? 316 VIII. Whence had they Come? 317 IX. The Four Ages of Man 318 X. Conjunctions 319 XI. A Needle’s Eye 320 XII. Meru

New Poems (1938)

321 The Gyres 322 Lapis Lazuli 323 Imitated from the Japanese 324 Sweet Dancer 325 The Three Bushes 326 The Lady’s First Song 327 The Lady’s Second Song 328 The Lady’s Third Song 329 The Lover’s Song 330 The Chambermaid’s First Song 331 The Chambermaid’s Second Song 332 An Acre of Grass 333 What Then? 334 Beautiful Lofty Things 335 A Crazed Girl 336 To Dorothy Wellesley 337 The Curse of Cromwell 338 Roger Casement 339 The Ghost of Roger Casement 340 The O’Rahilly 341 Come Gather Round Me Parnellites 342 The Wild Old Wicked Man 343 The Great Day 344 Parnell 345 What Was Lost 346 The Spur 347 A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety 348 The Pilgrim 349 Colonel Martin 350 A Model for the Laureate 351 The Old Stone Cross 352 The Spirit Medium 353 Those Images 354 The Municipal Gallery Re-visited 355 Are You Content

[Last Poems (1938-1939)]

356 Under Ben Bulben 357 Three Songs to the One Burden 358 The Black Tower 359 Cuchulain Comforted 360 Three Marching Songs 361 In Tara’s Halls 362 The Statues 363 News for the Delphic Oracle 364 Long-legged Fly 365 A Bronze Head 366 A Stick of Incense 367 Hound Voice 368 John Kinsella’s Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore 369 High Talk 370 The Apparitions 371 A Nativity 372 Man and the Echo 373 The Circus Animals’ Desertion 374 Politics

Narrative and Dramatic

375 The Wanderings of Oisin (1889) 376 The Old Age of Queen Maeve (1903) 377 Baile and Aillinn (1903)

The Shadowy Waters (1906):

378 Introductory Lines 379 The Harp of Aengus 380 The Shadowy Waters 381 The Two Kings (1914) 382 The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid (1923)

Appendix A: Yeats’s Notes in The Collected Poems (1933)

Notes to Appendix A 464

Appendix B: Music from New Poems (1938)

Notes to Appendix B

Explanatory Notes Index to Titles Index to First Lines

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