Selected Poems and Four Plays - Yeats, William Butler

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Contents

Foreword to the Fourth Edition

Introduction: The Poetry of Yeats

from Crossways (1889)

The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes

Ephemera

The Stolen Child

To an Isle in the Water

Down by the Salley Gardens

from The Rose (1893)

To the Rose upon the Rood of Time

Fergus and the Druid

Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea

The Rose of the World

A Faery Song

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Pity of Love

The Sorrow of Love

When You Are Old

A Dream of Death

Who Goes with Fergus?

The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland

The Two Trees

To Ireland in the Coming Times

from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

The Hosting of the Sidhe

The Moods

The Unappeasable Host

Into the Twilight

The Song of Wandering Aengus

The Song of the Old Mother

He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace

He Reproves the Curlew

To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear

The Cap and Bells

The Valley of the Black Pig

He Hears the Cry of the Sedge

The Lover Pleads with His Friends for Old Friends

He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

from In the Seven Woods (1904)

The Folly of Being Comforted

Adam's Curse

Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland

The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

A Woman Homer Sung

Words

No Second Troy

Against Unworthy Praise

The Fascination of What's Difficult

A Drinking Song

On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature

To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine

The Mask

Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation

These Are the Clouds

All Things Can Tempt Me

Brown Penny

from Responsibilities (1914)

[Pardon, Old Fathers]

September 1913

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing

Paudeen

To a Shade

When Helen Lived

The Three Hermits

Beggar to Beggar Cried

Running to Paradise

I. The Witch

II. The Peacock

I. To a Child Dancing in the Wind

II. Two Years Later

A Memory of Youth

Fallen Majesty

The Cold Heaven

That the Night Come

The Magi

The Dolls

A Coat

from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

The Wild Swans at Coole

In Memory of Major Robert Gregory

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

The Collar-Bone of a Hare

Solomon to Sheba

To a Young Beauty

The Scholars

Tom O'Roughley

Lines Written in Dejection

The Dawn

On Woman

The Fisherman

The Hawk

Memory

The People

A Thought from Propertius

A Deep-Sworn Vow

Presences

On Being Asked for a War Poem

UPON A DYING LADY:

I. Her Courtesy

II. Certain Artists Bring Her Dolls and Drawings

III. She Turns the Dolls' Faces to the Wall

IV. The End of Day

V. Her Race

VI. Her Courage

VII. Her Friends Bring Her a Christmas Tree

Ego Dominus Tuus

The Phases of the Moon

The Cat and the Moon

The Saint and the Hunchback

Two Songs of a Fool

The Double Vision of Michael Robartes

from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)

Solomon and the Witch

An Image from a Past Life

Easter, 1916

On a Political Prisoner

The Leaders of the Crowd

To...

Biographie:
s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923....

Sommaire:
William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’...