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  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 Sad Shepherd
    16. Lines Written in Dejection
    17. The Dawn
    18. On Woman
    19. The Fisherman
    20. The Hawk
    21. Memory
    22. Her Praise
    23. The People
    24. His Phoenix
    25. A Thought from Propertius
    26. Broken Dreams
    27. A Deep-Sworn Vow
    28. Presences
    29. The Balloon of the Mind
    30. To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-gno
    31. On Being Asked for a War Poem
    32. In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
    33. Upon a Dying Lady
      1. I: Her Courtesy
      2. II: Certain Artists Bring Her Dolls and Drawings
      3. III: She Turns the Dolls’ Faces to the Wall
      4. IV: The End of Day
      5. V: Her Race
      6. VI: Her Courage
      7. VII: Her Friends Bring Her a Christmas Tree
    34. Ego Dominus Tuus
    35. A Prayer on Going Into My House
    36. The Phases of the Moon
    37. The Cat and the Moon
    38. The Saint and the Hunchback
    39. Two Songs of a Fool
      1. I
      2. II
    40. Another Song of a Fool
    41. The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
  48. Michael Robartes and the Dancer
    1. Preface to Michael Robartes and the Dancer
    2. Michael Robartes and the Dancer
    3. Solomon and the Witch
    4. An Image from a Past Life
    5. Under Saturn
    6. Easter, 1916
    7. Sixteen Dead Men
    8. The Rose Tree
    9. On a Political Prisoner
    10. The Leaders of the Crowd
    11. Towards Break of Day
    12. Demon and Beast
    13. The Second Coming
    14. A Prayer for My Daughter
    15. A Meditation in Time of War
    16. To Be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee
  49. The Tower
    1. Sailing to Byzantium
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    2. The Tower
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    3. Meditations in Time of Civil War
      1. I: Ancestral Houses
      2. II: My House
      3. III: My Table
      4. IV: My Descendants
      5. V: The Road at My Door
      6. VI: The Stare’s Nest by My Window
      7. VII: I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
    4. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
    5. The Wheel
    6. Youth and Age
    7. The New Faces
    8. A Prayer for My Son
    9. Wisdom
    10. Leda and the Swan
    11. On a Picture of a Black Centaur
    12. Among School Children
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
    13. Colonus’ Praise
    14. The Hero, the Girl and the Fool
    15. Owen Ahern and His Dancers
      1. I
      2. II
    16. A Man Young and Old
      1. First Love
      2. Human Dignity
      3. The Mermaid
      4. The Death of the Hare
      5. The Empty Cup
      6. His Memories
      7. The Friends of His Youth
      8. Summer and Spring
      9. The Secrets of the Old
      10. His Wildness
    17. The Three Monuments
    18. From Oedipus at Colonus
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    19. The Gift of Harun-al-Rashid
    20. All Souls’ Night
  50. Endnotes
  51. Colophon
  52. Uncopyright

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