BY W.B. YEATS
CONTENTS
PREFACE
MODERN IRISH POETRY
OLD AGE
THE VILLAGE PREACHER
THE DESERTER'S MEDITATION
THOU CANST NOT BOAST
KATHLEEN O'MORE
THE GROVES OF BLARNEY
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
AT THE MID HOUR OF NIGHT
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE
THE CONVICT OF CLONMELL
THE OUTLAW OF LOCH LENE
DIRGE OF O'SULLIVAN BEAR
LOVE SONG
THE WHISTLIN' THIEF
SOGGARTH AROON
DARK ROSALEEN
LAMENT FOR THE PRINCES OF TYRONE AND TYRCONNELL
A LAMENTATION FOR THE DEATH OF SIR MAURICE FITZGERALD, KNIGHT OF KERRY
THE WOMAN OF THREE COWS
PRINCE ALFRID'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND
O'HUSSEY'S ODE TO THE MAGUIRE
THE NAMELESS ONE
SIBERIA
HY-BRASAIL
MO CRAOIBHIN CNO
MAIRGREAD NI CHEALLEADH
FROM THE COLD SOD THAT'S O'ER YOU
THE FAIRY NURSE
A CUISLE GEAL MO CHROIDHE
LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT
THE WELSHMEN OF TIRAWLEY
AIDEEN'S GRAVE
DEIRDRE'S LAMENT FOR THE SONS OF USNACH
THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND
LAMENT OVER THE RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF TIMOLEAGUE
THE FAIRY WELL OF LAGNANAY
ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS DAVIS
THE COUNTY OF MAYO
THE WEDDING OF THE CLANS
THE LITTLE BLACK ROSE
SONG
THE BARD ETHELL
LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF EOGHAN RUADH O'NEILL
MAIRE BHAN ASTOR
O! THE MARRIAGE
A PLEA FOR LOVE
REMEMBRANCE
A FRAGMENT FROM 'THE PRISONER: A FRAGMENT'
LAST LINES
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD
THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE; OR, THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO BALLYSHANNY
THE FAIRIES
THE ABBOT OF INISFALEN
TWILIGHT VOICES
FOUR DUCKS ON A POND
THE LOVER AND BIRDS
THE CELTS
SALUTATION TO THE CELTS
THE GOBBAN SAOR
PATRICK SHEEHAN
THE IRISH PEASANT GIRL
TO GOD AND IRELAND TRUE
THE BANSHEE
AGHADOE
A MAD SONG
LADY MARGARET'S SONG
SONG (2)
FATHER O'FLYNN
SONG (3)
REQUIESCAT
THE LAMENT OF QUEEN MAEV
THE DEAD AT CLONMACNOIS
THE SPELL-STRUCK
WERE YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN?
MY GRIEF ON THE SEA
MY LOVE, O, SHE IS MY LOVE
I SHALL NOT DIE FOR THEE
RIDDLES
LOUGH BRAY
THE CHILDREN OF LIR
ST. FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS
SHEEP AND LAMBS
THE GARDENER SAGE
THE DARK MAN
THE FAIRY FIDDLER
OUR THRONES DECAY
IMMORTALITY
THE GREAT BREATH
SUNG ON A BY-WAY
DREAM LOVE
ILLUSION
JANUS
CONNLA'S WELL
NAMES
THAT
THINK
TE MARTYRUM CANDIDATUS
THE CHURCH OF A DREAM
WAYS OF WAR
THE RED WIND
CELTIC SPEECH
TO MORFYDD
CAN DOOV DEELISH
SHULE AROON
THE SHAN VAN VOCHT
THE WEARING OF THE GREEN
THE RAKES OF MALLOW
JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE
KITTY OF COLERAINE
LAMENT OF MORIAN SHEHONE FOR MISS MARY ROURKE
THE GERALDINE'S DAUGHTER
BY MEMORY INSPIRED
A FOLK VERSE
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