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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 PART II. MARGARET LELAND. 43 I 45 II 51 III 55 IV 60 V 67 VI 70 VII 72 VIII 75 IX 77 PART III. JOHN SHERMAN REVISITS BALLAH. 83 I 85 II 88 III 91 PART IV. THE REV. WILLIAM HOWARD. 101 I 103 II 111 III 114 IV 125 V 134 VI 138 PART V. JOHN SHERMAN RETURNS TO BALLAH. 143 I 145 II 149 III 154 IV 165 DHOYA. 171 I 173 II 182 III 190 *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS *** Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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