Produced by David Widger
INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS OF
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Compiled by David Widger
CONTENTS
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 1
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 2
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 3
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 4
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 5
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 6
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 7
## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 8
## STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN
## THE SECRET ROSE
## IRISH FAIRY TALES
## FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
## SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT
## THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS
## THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
## IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL
## DISCOVERIES
## THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE
## THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL
## RESPONSIBILITIES
## WHERE THERE IS NOTHING
## POEMS
## THE KING'S THRESHOLD; BAILE'S STRAND
## JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA
THE FOLLOWING EBOOKS
HAVE NO LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOUR YEARS
IN THE SEVEN WOODS
MOSADA
PER AMICA SILENTIA LUNAE
REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
SYNGE AND THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME
TABLES OF THE LAW
THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS
THE HOUR GLASS
THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
TWO PLAYS FOR DANCERS
UNICORN FROM THE STARS
TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
POEMS LYRICAL AND NARRATIVE
Being The First Volume Of The
Collected Works In Verse And
Prose Of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS:
THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE
3
THE EVERLASTING VOICES
4
THE MOODS
4
THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART
5
THE HOST OF THE AIR
6
THE FISHERMAN
8
A CRADLE SONG
9
INTO THE TWILIGHT
10
THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS
11
THE HEART OF THE WOMAN
13
THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE
14
HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND HIS BELOVED AND LONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
15
HE BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE
17
HE REPROVES THE CURLEW
18
HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY
19
A POET TO HIS BELOVED
20
HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES
20
TO MY HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR
21
THE CAP AND BELLS
22
THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG
24[vi]
THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS
25
HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS
27
HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY
28
HE HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE
28
HE THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED
29
THE BLESSED
30
THE SECRET ROSE
32
MAID QUIET
33
THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION
34
THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIEND FOR OLD FRIENDS
35
A LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS
36
THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS
37
HE WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD
39
HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN
39
HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF THE CONSTELLATIONS OF HEAVEN
40
THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE 41
BAILE AND AILLINN 51
IN THE SEVEN WOODS:
IN THE SEVEN WOODS
63
THE ARROW
66
THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED
67[vii]
OLD MEMORY
68
NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART
69
THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS
70
ADAMâ?TS CURSE
72
RED HANRAHANâ?TS SONG ABOUT IRELAND
74
THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER
75
UNDER THE MOON
76
THE HOLLOW WOOD
78
O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG
79
THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES
80
THE HAPPY TOWNLAND
82
EARLY POEMS.
BALLADS AND LYRICS:
TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE. A DEDICATION TO A VOLUME OF EARLY POEMS
89
THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD
91
THE SAD SHEPHERD
94
THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES
96
ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA
97
THE INDIAN UPON GOD
103
THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE
105
THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES
106
EPHEMERA
107
THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL
109[viii]
THE STOLEN CHILD
113
TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER
116
DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS
117
THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN
118
THE BALLAD OF FATHER Oâ?THART
119
THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE
121
THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER
124
THE BALLAD OF FATHER GILLIGAN
127
THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER
130
THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY
131
THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS
132
THE ROSE:
TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME
139
FERGUS AND THE DRUID
141
THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN
144
THE ROSE OF THE WORLD
149
THE ROSE OF PEACE
150
THE ROSE OF BATTLE
151
A FAERY SONG
153
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
154
A CRADLE SONG
155
THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER
156
THE PITY OF LOVE
156
THE SORROW OF LOVE
157
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
158
THE WHITE BIRDS
159
A DREAM OF DEATH
161[ix]
A DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT
162
THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND
163
THE TWO TREES
165
TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES
167
THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN 169
NOTES 227
THE KING'S THRESHOLD;
ON BAILE'S STRAND. DEIRDRE;
SHADOWY WATERS
Being The Second Volume of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE KING'S THRESHOLD 1
ON BAILE'S STRAND 69
DEIRDRE 125
THE SHADOWY WATERS 179
APPENDIX I:
ACTING VERSION OF 'THE SHADOWY WATERS'
231
APPENDIX II:
A DIFFERENT VERSION OF DEIRDRE'S ENTRANCE
251
APPENDIX III:
THE LEGENDARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF THE PLAYS
254
APPENDIX IV:
THE DATES AND PLACES OF PERFORMANCE OF PLAYS
256
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN;
THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE;
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS
Being The Third Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse And Prose Of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN 1
THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE 89
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS,
BY LADY GREGORY AND W. B. YEATS 121
APPENDIX:
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN 209
NOTES 214
THE HOUR-GLASS;
CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN;
THE GOLDEN HELMET;
THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
Being The Fourth Volume Of The Collected
Works In Verse and Prose Of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE HOUR-GLASS 1
CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN 31
THE GOLDEN HELMET 55
THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT 79
APPENDIX I:
'THE HOUR-GLASS'
233
APPENDIX II:
'CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN'
240
APPENDIX III:
'THE GOLDEN HELMET'
243
APPENDIX IV:
DATES AND PLACES OF THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF NEW PLAYS PRODUCED BY THE NATIONAL THEATRE SOCIETY AND ITS PREDECESSORS
244
THE CELTIC TWILIGHT
and STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN
Being The Fifth Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
THE CELTIC TWILIGHT
PAGE
THIS BOOK
1
A TELLER OF TALES
3
BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
6
MORTAL HELP
9
A VISIONARY
11
VILLAGE GHOSTS
17
'DUST HATH CLOSED HELEN'S EYE'
27
A KNIGHT OF THE SHEEP
39
AN ENDURING HEART
44
THE SORCERERS
48
THE DEVIL
54
HAPPY AND UNHAPPY THEOLOGIANS
56
THE LAST GLEEMAN
63
REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM VENI
73
'AND FAIR, FIERCE WOMEN'
78
ENCHANTED WOODS
82
MIRACULOUS CREATURES
89
ARISTOTLE OF THE BOOKS
91
THE SWINE OF THE GODS
92
A VOICE
94
KIDNAPPERS
96
THE UNTIRING ONES
106
EARTH, FIRE AND WATER
110
THE OLD TOWN
112
THE MAN AND HIS BOOTS
115
A COWARD
117
THE THREE O'BYRNES AND THE EVIL FAERIES
119
DRUMCLIFF AND ROSSES
121
THE THICK SKULL OF THE FORTUNATE
131
THE RELIGION OF A SAILOR
134
CONCERNING THE NEARNESS TOGETHER OF HEAVEN, EARTH, AND PURGATORY
136
THE EATERS OF PRECIOUS STONES
138
OUR LADY OF THE HILLS
140
THE GOLDEN AGE
144
A REMONSTRANCE WITH SCOTSMEN FOR HAVING SOURED THE DISPOSITION OF THEIR GHOSTS AND FAERIES
146
WAR
152
THE QUEEN AND THE FOOL
155
THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE OF FAERY
162
DREAMS THAT HAVE NO MORAL
172
BY THE ROADSIDE
190
'INTO THE TWILIGHT'
193
STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN:
RED HANRAHAN
197
THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE
213
HANRAHAN AND CATHLEEN THE DAUGHTER OF HOOLIHAN
225
RED HANRAHAN'S CURSE
231
HANRAHAN'S VISION
242
THE DEATH OF HANRAHAN
250
IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL
Being The Sixth Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'? 1
SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY 13
MAGIC 23
THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS 55
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY'S POETRY 71
AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON 111
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION 131
WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE 'DIVINE COMEDY' 138
SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING 176
THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY 185
THE THEATRE 200
THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 210
THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY 230
THE MOODS 238
THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX 240
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES 243
IRELAND AND THE ARTS 249
THE GALWAY PLAINS 259
EMOTION OF MULTITUDE 264
THE SECRET ROSE.
ROSA ALCHEMICA.
THE TABLES OF THE LAW.
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI.
JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA
Being The Seventh Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE SECRET ROSE:
DEDICATION 3
TO THE SECRET ROSE 5
THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST 7
OUT OF THE ROSE 20
THE WISDOM OF THE KING 31
THE HEART OF THE SPRING 42
THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS 51
THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT 61
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD 69
OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE
78
ROSA ALCHEMICA 103
THE TABLES OF THE LAW 141
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI 165
EARLY STORIES.
JOHN SHERMAN 183
DHOYA 283
DISCOVERIES.
EDMUND SPENSER.
POETRY AND TRADITION;
& OTHER ESSAYS
Being The Eighth Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
DISCOVERIES:
PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING 3
PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES 8
THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR 12
A GUITAR PLAYER 13
THE LOOKING-GLASS 14
THE TREE OF LIFE 15
THE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES' TALES 18
THE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERS 20
HAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWN? 22
WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET 24
CONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTS 29
THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMA 32
THE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISM 36
IN THE SERPENT'S MOUTH 38
THE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWS 39
HIS MISTRESS'S EYEBROWS 39
THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR 41
A TOWER ON THE APENNINE 42
THE THINKING OF THE BODY 43
RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ART 45
THE HOLY PLACES 48[vi]
EDMUND SPENSER 51
POETRY AND TRADITION 91
MODERN IRISH POETRY 113
LADY GREGORY'S CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE 131
LADY GREGORY'S GODS AND FIGHTING MEN 147
MR. SYNGE AND HIS PLAYS 171
LIONEL JOHNSON 183
THE PATHWAY 189
BIBLIOGRAPHY 197
STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN
By W.B. Yeats
CONTENTS
RED HANRAHAN.
THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE.
HANRAHAN AND CATHLEEN THE DAUGHTER OF HOOLIHAN.
RED HANRAHAN'S CURSE.
HANRAHAN'S VISION.
THE DEATH OF HANRAHAN.
THE SECRET ROSE
By W.B. Yeats
CONTENTS
TO THE SECRET ROSE
THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST.
OUT OF THE ROSE.
THE WISDOM OF THE KING.
THE HEART OF THE SPRING.
THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS.
THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT.
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD.
OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT, AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE.
IRISH FAIRY TALES
Edited With An Introduction
By W. B. Yeats
Illustrated By Jack B. Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 1
LAND AND WATER FAIRIES
The Fairies' Dancing-Place 13
The Rival Kempers 17
The Young Piper 32
A Fairy Enchantment 49
Teigue of the Lee 53
The Fairy Greyhound 69
The Lady of Gollerus 77
EVIL SPIRITS
The Devil's Mill 95
Fergus O'Mara and the Air-Demons 112
The Man who never knew Fear 123
CATS
Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats 141
Owney and Owney-na-Peak 151
KINGS AND WARRIORS
The Knighting of Cuculain 185
The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate 195
APPENDIX
Classification of Irish Fairies 223
Authorities on Irish Folklore 234
FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
Edited And Selected By W. B. Yeats
CONTENTS
THE TROOPING FAIRIES— PAGE
The Fairies 3
Frank Martin and the Fairies 5
The Priest's Supper 9
The Fairy Well of Lagnanay 13
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse 16
Paddy Corcoran's Wife 31
Cusheen Loo 33
The White Trout; A Legend of Cong 35
The Fairy Thorn 38
The Legend of Knockgrafton 40
A Donegal Fairy 46
Changelings—
The Brewery of Egg-shells 48
The Fairy Nurse 51
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady 52
The Stolen Child 59
The Merrow—
The Soul Cages 61
Flory Cantillon's Funeral 75
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES—
The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker 81
Master and Man 84
Far Darrig in Donegal 90
The Piper and the Puca 95
Daniel O'Rourke 97
The Kildare Pooka 105
How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee 108
A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald 112
The Banshee of the MacCarthys 113
GHOSTS—
A Dream 129
Grace Connor 130
A Legend of Tyrone 132
The Black Lamb 134
The Radiant Boy 136
The Fate of Frank M'Kenna 139
WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS— [Pg viii]
Bewitched Butter (Donegal) 149
A Queen's County Witch 151
The Witch Hare 154
Bewitched Butter (Queen's County) 155
The Horned Women 165
The Witches' Excursion 168
The Confessions of Tom Bourke 170
The Pudding Bewitched 185
T'YEER-NA-N-OGE—
The Legend of O'Donoghue 201
Rent-Day 203
Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) 206
Hy-Brasail.—The Isle of the Blest 212
The Phantom Isle 213
SAINTS, PRIESTS—
The Priest's Soul 215
The Priest of Coloony 220
The Story of the Little Bird 222
Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters 224
King O'Toole and his Goose 224
THE DEVIL—
The Demon Cat 229
The Long Spoon 231
The Countess Kathleen O'Shea 232
The Three Wishes 235
GIANTS—
The Giant's Stairs 260
A Legend of Knockmany 266
KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS—
The Twelve Wild Geese 280
The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts 286
The Haughty Princess 290
The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla 294
Munachar and Manachar 296
Donald and his Neighbours 299
The Jackdaw 303
The Story of Conn-eda 306
NOTES 319
SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT
By William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
All Souls’ Night 1
Suggested by a Picture of a Black Centaur 6
Thoughts upon the Present State of the World 7
The New Faces 14
A Prayer for My Son 14
Cuchulain the Girl and the Fool 16
The Wheel 18
A New End for ‘The King’s Threshold’ 18
NOTES
Note on ‘Thoughts Upon the Present State of the World’ Section Six 23
Note on The New End to ‘The King’s Threshold’ 24
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS
By William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
page
The Hosting of the Sidhe 1
The Everlasting Voices 3
The Moods 4
Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart 5
The Host of the Air 7
Breasal the Fisherman 10
A Cradle Song 11
Into the Twilight 13
The Song of Wandering Aengus 15
The Song of the old Mother 17
The Fiddler of Dooney 18
The Heart of the Woman 20
Aedh Laments the Loss of Love 21
Mongan laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved 22
Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace 24[vi]
Hanrahan reproves the Curlew 26
Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty 27
A Poet to his Beloved 29
Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes 30
To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear 31
The Cap and Bells 32
The Valley of the Black Pig 35
Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many Moods 37
Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers 40
Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty 42
Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge 43
Aedh thinks of those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved 44
The Blessed 45
The Secret Rose 47
Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings 51
The Travail of Passion 52
The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends 54[vii]
Hanrahan speaks to the Lovers of his Songs in coming Days 55
Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers 57
Aedh wishes his Beloved were Dead 59
Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 60
Mongan thinks of his past Greatness 61
Notes 65
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
By W. B. Yeats
CONTENTS
page
The Wild Swans at Coole 1
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 4
An Irish Airman foresees his Death 13
Men improve with the Years 14
The Collar-Bone of a Hare 15
Under the Round Tower 17
Solomon to Sheba 19
The Living Beauty 21
A Song 22
To a Young Beauty 23
To a Young Girl 24
The Scholars 25
Tom O'Roughley 26
The Sad Shepherd 27
Lines written in Dejection 39
The Dawn 40[viii]
On Woman 41
The Fisherman 44
The Hawk 46
Memory 47
Her Praise 48
The People 50
His Phoenix 54
A Thought from Propertius 58
Broken Dreams 59
A Deep-Sworn Vow 63
Presences 64
The Balloon of the Mind 66
To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno 67
On being asked for a War Poem 68
In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen 69
Upon a Dying Lady 72
Ego Dominus Tuus 79
A Prayer on going into my House 86
The Phases of the Moon 88
The Cat and the Moon 102
The Saint and the Hunchback 104[ix]
Two Songs of a Fool 106
Another Song of a Fool 108
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes 109
Note 115
IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL
By W. B. Yeats
Contents.
WHAT IS ‘POPULAR POETRY’? 1
SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY 16
MAGIC 29
THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS 70
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY’S POETRY 90
AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON 142
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION 168
WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY 176
SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING 226
THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY 237
THE THEATRE 257
THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 270
THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY 296
THE MOODS 306
THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX 308
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES 312
IRELAND AND THE ARTS 320
THE GALWAY PLAINS 333
EMOTION OF MULTITUDE 339
DISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS
By William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
Prophet, Priest and King Page 1
Personality and the Intellectual Essences 5
The Musician and the Orator 9
A Banjo Player 10
The Looking-glass 11
The Tree of Life 12
The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales 15
The Play of Modern Manners 16
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own 18
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet 20
Concerning Saints and Artists 24
The Subject Matter of Drama 27
The Two Kinds of Asceticism 30
In the Serpent’s Mouth 32
The Black and the White Arrows 33
His Mistress’s Eyebrows 33
The Tresses of the Hair 35
A Tower on the Apennine 36
The Thinking of the Body 37
Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art 39
The Holy Places 41
THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE
By William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
Thoughts on Lady Gregory’s Translations
I. Cuchulain and his Cycle 1
II. Fion and his Cycle 12
Preface to the First Edition of the Well of the Saints 36
Discoveries
Prophet, Priest and King 49
Personality and the Intellectual Essences 56
The Musician and the Orator 61
A Guitar Player 63
The Looking-glass 65
The Tree of Life 67
The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales 71
The Play of Modern Manners 73
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own? 76
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet 79
Concerning Saints and Artists 85
The Subject Matter of Drama 89
The Two Kinds of Asceticism 94
In the Serpent’s Mouth 97
The Black and the White Arrows 99
His Mistress’s Eyebrows 100
The Tresses of the Hair 103
A Tower on the Apennines 104
The Thinking of the Body 106
Religious Belief Necessary to Religious Art 109
The Holy Places 113
Poetry and Tradition 116
Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations 139
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Time 146
The Tragic Theatre 196
John Shawe-Taylor 208
Edmund Spenser 213
THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL
By W. B. YEATS
CONTENTS
PAGE
Book I
Four Years 1887-1891 3
Book II
Ireland after the Fall of Parnell 83
Book III
Hodos Camelionis 135
Book IV
The Tragic Generation 157
Book V
The Stirring of the Bones 225
RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER POEMS
By William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
PAGE
Responsibilities, 1912-1914—
Introductory Rhymes 1
The Grey Rock 3
The Two Kings 11
To a Wealthy Man 29
September 1913 32
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing 34
Paudeen 35
To a Shade 36
When Helen Lived 39
The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,'—1907 40
The Three Beggars 41
The Three Hermits 45
Beggar to Beggar cried 47
The Well and the Tree 49
Running to Paradise 50
The Hour before Dawn 52
The Player Queen 59
The Realists 61
The Witch 62
The Peacock 63
[vi] The Mountain Tomb 64
To a Child dancing in the Wind 66
A Memory of Youth 68
Fallen Majesty 70
Friends 71
The Cold Heaven 73
That the Night come 75
An Appointment 76
The Magi 77
The Dolls 78
A Coat 80
Closing Rhymes 81
From the Green Helmet and other Poems, 1909-1912—
His Dream 85
A Woman Homer sung 87
The Consolation 89
No Second Troy 91
Reconciliation 92
King and No King 94
Peace 96
Against Unworthy Praise 97
The Fascination of What's Difficult 99
A Drinking Song 101
The Coming of Wisdom with Time 102
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians 103
To a Poet 104
[vii] The Mask 105
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation 106
At the Abbey Theatre 108
These are the Clouds 110
At Galway Races 112
A Friend's Illness 113
All Things can tempt me 114
The Young Man's Song 115
The Hour-Glass—1912 117
Notes 181
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING
Being Volume One Of Plays For An Irish Theatre
By W. B. Yeats
CONTENTS
DEDICATION OF VOLUMES ONE AND TWO OF PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
ACT IV.
ACT V.
POEMS
By W. B. YEATS
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Countess Cathleen 1
The Rose—
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time 109
Fergus and the Druid 111
The Death of Cuchulain 114
The Rose of the World 119
The Rose of Peace 120
The Rose of Battle 121
A Faery Song 123
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 124
A Cradle Song 125
The Pity of Love 126
The Sorrow of Love 127
When You are Old 128
The White Birds 129
A Dream of Death 131
A Dream of a Blessed Spirit 132
Who goes with Fergus 133
The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland 134
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists 137
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner 139xiv
The Ballad of Father Gilligan 140
The Two Trees 143
To Ireland in the Coming Times 145
The Land of Heart's Desire 149
Crossways—
The Song of the Happy Shepherd 197
The Sad Shepherd 200
The Cloak, The Boat, and the Shoes 202
Anashuya and Vijaya 203
The Indian upon God 209
The Indian to his Love 211
The Falling of the Leaves 213
Ephemera 214
The Madness of King Goll 216
The Stolen Child 220
To an Isle in the Water 223
Down by the Salley Gardens 224
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 225
The Ballad of Father O'Hart 226
The Ballad of Moll Magee 229
The Ballad of the Foxhunter 232
The Wanderings of Usheen 235
Glossary and Notes 299
THE KING'S THRESHOLD;
and ON BAILE'S STRAND
Being Volume Three
Of Plays For An Irish Theatre
By W. B. Yeats
CONTENTS
The King's Threshold
On Baile's Strand
JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA
By William Butler Yeats
CONTENTS
GANCONAGH'S APOLOGY. 1
PART I. JOHN SHERMAN LEAVES BALLAH. 3
I 5
II 17
III 27
IV 39