APPENDIX A Poems by "Y." in Hibernia, 1882-83

In "When Was Yeats First Published?" Micheal 6 hAodha has suggested that eleven poems signed with the initial "Y." in the Dublin periodical Hibernia from April1882 to July 1883 might be the work of W. B. Yeats. 1 6 hAodha offers two pieces of evidence. First, a copy of the initial volume of the journal in the National Library of Ireland has two inscriptions, assigned by 6 hAodha to the librarian and scholar Richard Irvine Best. One attributes an unsigned article on Robert Louis Stevenson, "A New Writer of English Prose" (2January 1882), toT. W. Lyster, a predecessor of Best at theNational Library of Ireland. The other inscription is found after the poem "Sweet Aura!" in the issue for July 1882 and reads"? W. B. Yeats". Secondly, 6 hAodha points to an exchange of correspondence in the Irish Book Lover. In the April-May 1919 number, "T.C.D." had asked for information about Hibernia. The reply, presumably from the editor of the Irish Book Lover, JohnS. Crone, gives a description of the journal and states that the contributors included "W. B. Yeats over his initial 'Y .' "2 Moreover, the following issue of the Irish Book Lover contains a lengthy and detailed account of Hibernia from someone who signs himself"An Old Contributor". Displaying an intimate knowledge of the workings of Hibernia, he adds to the list of contributors, stating that his names are "in addition to those mentioned" in the earlier number of the Irish Book Lover.3 By implication, then, "An Old Contributor" would seem to confirm that Yeats's work appeared in Hibernia.

1 Micheal6 hAodha, "When Was Yeats First Published?", Irish Times, 5 June 1965, p. 10. The article was reprinted, without the text of "Sonnet", in Eire- Ireland, 2, no. 2 (Summer 1967) 67-71. It might be noted that Hibernia was published only from January 1882 to july 1883 and has no connection with the current periodical of the same name. 2 Irish Book Lover, 10, nos 9-10 (April-May 1919) 93. 3 Irish Book Lover, 10, nos 11-12 (June-July 1919) 110-11.

176 Poems by ''Y." in "Hibernia", 1882-83 177

The evidence against Yeats's authorship, on the other hand, seems formidable. Although Hone states that "at seven- teen he [Yeats] began to write verses",4 it is clear that Yeats's father discouraged publication at such an early age. Writing to Edward Dowden on 7 January 1884, six months after the fial poem by "Y." in Hibernia, John Butler Yeats remarks that "Of course I never dreamed of publishing the effort of a youth of eighteen."5 Secondly, most of the poems in Hibernia have an indication that they were written in either "Surrey" or "London", neither of which Yeats is known to have visited at the appropriate time. Thirdly, so far as I know there is no manu- script material for the poems in Yeats's papers in the National Library of Ireland or elsewhere, whereas manuscripts do survive for the very early poetic dramas of c. 1882 and later. Finally, it seems to me quite unlikely that the correspondence in the Irish Book Lover would have escaped the notice of Allan Wade, who had published his first bibliography of Yeats's writings in 1908 and who was continually adding to it and revising it. Yet Wade makes no mention in either his Bibliography or his edition of Yeats's letters of the poems in Hibernia. Indeed, I think it is conceivable that he saw the statements in the Irish Book Lover, wrote or asked Yeats about the question, and received a negative answer. It is, of course, also possible to argue against Yeats's authorship of the poems on the basis of their content, themes, and style. To me, at least, such a discussion would but make more remote the possibility that "Y." is in fact Yeats. However, since such arguments must always be subjective, and since a complete file of Hibernia is difficult to locate outside the British Library or the National Library of Ireland, I have decided to reproduce the eleven poems, allowing individual readers to weigh the existing evidence and conjecture and to reach their own conclusions.

4 Joseph Hone, W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939, 2ndedn. (London: Macmillan, 1962) p. 34. In his edition of]. B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946) p. 52, n. 1, Hone states that "W. B. Yeats wrote his first poems in 1882,just before he was seventeen". 5 ]. B. Yeats: Letters, p. 52. 178 Editing Yeats's Poems

SONNET. I saw a shepherd youth, with fixed gaze, As one dream-haunted in his waking hours, Hold listlessly a coronal of flowers, The while his sheep, in unaccustomed ways, Looked meekly back for guidance. Yet he lay, While the still shade like a sweet mystery Enveloped him, as though he could not see: Nor heard: but evermore a[l]thro' the day With little pauses (like the Nightingale's) Of charmed silence, on his lips awoke The same soft simple notes that scarcely broke To sound, and called no echo from the vales. Dear heart! their echo in myself I find: Turning the same love-thought for ever in my mind. Y. [Hibernia, 1, no. 4 (1 April 1882) 55]

"THE WINGS OF A DOVE." Some with the wings of song can reach The clear, calm, and eternal heights: Some with the music of their speech Fill life with varying delights: Some from communing with the skies, Catch heavenly glimpses; from the stone Some bid imprisoned Ariel rise; Ah, mel- 0 love: and love alone! Yet love can change-from love I know, - The dullest heart into a shrine: Our love is weak till our lives grow True symbols of Life Divine. Love blindeth? Nay, he clears our eyes To look beyond earth's narrow zone;- Then break thy bonds, my soul! and rise Upon the wings of love alone! Y. [Hibernia, 1, no. 5 (1 May 1882) 75] Poems by "Y." in "Hibernia", 1882-83 179

LOVE'S SILENCES.

Buzzings haunt the honied shadows Of the chestnut's broadening tent; Hear the kine low in the meadows With a measureless content: Sparrows quarrel, chat, and glitter, Like quick children, as they dip: 'Neath our eaves the swallows twitter, As with human fellowship: Nature is awake and singing: Poet Love, what song to that full chorus art thou bringing? Dove-like, tell thy fluty numbers One sweet word that never tires? Lark-like, bring'st our sunny slumbers Echoes from angelic lyres? Every change from grief to pleasure Dost in one great hymn combine - In one yearning passionate measure, Hallowed by thy lips divine? ... Nay, Love, nay, -thou art not singing: Only such as serve thee know the thoughts within thee springing!

Y.

[Hibernia, 1, no. 6 Qune 1882) 92]

"SWEET AURA!"

With the homely shepherds in fellowship, Under the feathery elms I drowse; Like the tears of a lover, the sere leaves drip From the kindling green of the arching boughs.

The rose to-day is consumed with desire; The dry air pulses; the fierce heat beats To the heart of the forest in shafts of fire; In the thin wan grass how the faint flock bleats! 180 Editing Yeats's Poems

As the sheep stray, panting, the distant tide With a gleam invites; with the lambs we go; On the lake's smooth bosom the calm swans glide, Floating like delicate flakes of snow.

We have left the sheltering woods, in the blaze Of untempered noon, for the open glade; And we still may see, through a pearly haze, A Danae shower in the night-black shade.

Laid 'neath the close-knit hawthorn leaves On a bank, the flock is folded to rest; But list, - a rustle! the light wave heaves! God bless thee, kindly breeze from the West!

Surrey. Y.

[Hibernia, 1, no. 7 Ouly 1882) 106]

SONNET.

I sang of thee, when Autumn's hectic glow Forecast the dissolution of the Year: I sang of thee, when Winter laid him low, O'erstrewing his white pall with roses sere; And when his Heir, laughing away a tear, New life infused into our sluggish blood, My strains rang out amid Spring's carols clear, And my thoughts burgeoned in each leaf and bud. And now that Summer, more mature and ripe, Flushes with grace the work by Spring begun, I follow Pan with imitative pipe, Warbling thy praises 'neath a quickening sun: Nor think a floral crown to-day to win, But wait my share, when Love his harvest gathers in.

(Surrey.) Y.

[Hibernia, 1, no. 8 (August 1882) 123] Poems by "Y." in "Hibernia", 1882-83 181

GOING!

The clock's quick tick - the bell's slow boom, The bright street's ratding riot, - The shifting shadows in my room - The broadening lull and quiet - The ebb of life that flowed around - Fresh evening breezes blowing - Some near, but late unnoted sound - All tell me time is going: And yet thou comest not, my heart, Altho' the time is going!

So have I seen with vapours dun The grinding City sheeted, So watched the purpled sickly sun By hissing showers defeated; So felt the arrows of the East Slay Spring's first greenness growing - And now from her unfinished feast Reluctant Summer's going, - And yet thou comest not, my heart, Tho' Summer kind is going!

Love o'er my cares cast flower on flower As on with time he hasted; His sweet thoughts tranced me many an hour: Thank God it was not wasted! You filled my dreams alone, my sweet,- You set hope's sunshine glowing, Then bid me wait your ventruous feet - Still time alas! is going: ... And I must follow my hot heart That straight to thine is going!

Y.

[Hibernia, 1, no. 9 (September 1882) 144] 182 Editing Yeats's Poems

SONNET.

How am I pained that Love, the urchin wild, Putting his own keen arrows to the test, Hath pierced his side! And yet he wanly smiled To see them purpled with his ichor blest. I gathered him, deep-breathing, voiceless, mild, To the protecting cradle of my breast, And, as a mother her unquiet child, Lulled him with tender lullabies to rest.

And I gave him poppy and mandragora, But feared lest he might sleep to wake no more; I bound his wound, - anointing the fell dart; Still his large sleepless eyes transfixed with awe: Fevering, the rosy salve aside he tore ... Yet lives! but ever clasps the Arrow to his heart.

London. Y. [Hibernia, 1, no. 10 (October 1882) 159]

L'ENVOI.

Here must I bid adieu, my sweet; But will you take these simple songs Whose rhythm my very pulses beat, Whose only worth to Love belongs?

How cold they read!- yet, ere you close, If 'neath the tropes and rhymes you look, You'll find my heart, like a crushed rose, Between the pages of the book!

London. Y.

Hibernia, 1, no 12 (December 1882) 188] Poems by "Y." in "Hibernia", 1882-83 183

RECALL.

Daily, hourly, as I think of you, Though at first that dear fond face I see Only, smiling back my dreams to me, Like Love's star in yon unfading blue, Yet a little while, and every scene That hath known you, circles you again, And I live my second life as then; Owning all of love that once hath been. And, even as the flutter of green leaves, Flash of summer lightnings, and wild rains, Gladdening gusts from one tumultous shore, Come again: so memory ever weaves Into lasting hues my joys and pains, For that embodied Hope whom He shall yet restore!

Surrey. Y. [Hibernia, 2, no. 4 (May 1883) 71]

SONNET.

Here am I lost in verdurous solitudes Which ne'er the city's murmurs hoarse invade, Where as a dove calm contemplation broods, And even my dreams are sunshine flecked with shade. The answering of the birds adown the glade Echoes like faint, low laughter; the plumed grass Trembles, and beathings sweet the boughs pervade, As though the spirits of the woodland pass. 0 my Egeria! oft to such a spot From books and men has thy dear image brought Thy love, to pour into his heart thy lore- To ban whate'er thine innocence might wrong, To show the living stream that makes men strong, And bid him drink, and know his cares no more! Surrey. Y. [Hibernia, 2, no. 5 Qune 1883) 79] 184 Editing Yeats's Poems

LOVE'S CLAIRVOYANCE.

I think I hear you trilling some old song Burdened with sobs and laughter - and again Be mute, as with a sudden throb of pain: Till the white keys your fingers steal along, Releasing your sad thoughts in a clear flood Of music weird and strange. Or else you take Some book that casts you in a tender mood. In which you dream and dream, nor would awake. I see you breathing life into the stark Cold canvas - then cast down the brush, and pass Amid the languid flowers and humid grass, And with rapt simple soul outsoar the lark: - But whether linked with earth, or heavenward caught, My star forever moves in the orbit of your thought.

London. Y.

[Hibernia, 2, no. 6 (July 1883) 98] APPENDIX B Some Sources for the Poems in Yeats's Plays

A "Two Songs Rewritten for the Tune's Sake", I ["My Paistin Finn is my sole desire"] Based on a well-known Irish song, Paistin Fionn. Among the translations available to Yeats were those by John D'Alton in James Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy (1831), Edward Walsh (Irish Popular Songs, 1847) and Samuel Ferguson (Lays of the Western Gael, 1874). Yeats's version is closest to that by Ferguson. Given below is the text from Irish Minstrelsy, ed. H. Halliday Sparling, 2nd edn. (London: Walter Scott, 1888) pp. 292-93, with the refrain printed only after the first stanza since it does not change thereafter. 0 my fair Pastheen is my heart's delight; Her gay heart laughs in her blue eyes bright; Like the apple blossom her bosom white, And her neck like the swan's on a March morn bright!

Then, Oro, come with me! come with me! come with me! Oro, come with me! brown girl, sweet! And 0 I would go through snow and sleet If you would come with me, brown girl, sweet!

Love of my heart, my fair Pastheen! Her cheeks are as red as the rose's sheen, But my lips have tasted no more, I ween, Than the glass I drank to the health of my queen!

Were I in the town, where's mirth and glee, Or 'twixt two barrels of barley bree, With my fair Pastheen upon my knee, 'Tis I would drink to her pleasantly!

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Nine night I lay in longing and pain, Betwixt two bushes, beneath the rain, Thinking to see you, love, once again; But whistle and call were in vain!

I'll leave my people, both friend and foe; From all the girls in the world I'll go; But from you, sweetheart, 0 never! 0 no! Till I lie in the coffin, stretched, cold and low!

B ["I will go cry with the woman"]

In the United Irishman for 5 May 1902. Yeats indicated that the song was "suggested to me by some old Gaelic folk-song" (VP1 234). The probable source is Lady Gregory, who published a version of "Fair-haired Donough" in an article on "West Irish Folk Ballads" in the Monthly Review for October 1902. A revised version of the essay became the chapter on "West Irish Ballads" in her Poets and Dreamers (London: John Murray, 1903), the source (49) of the text given below.

"It was bound fast here you saw him, and you wondered to see him, Our fair-haired Donough, and he after being condemned; There was a little white cap on him in place of a hat, And a hempen rope in the place of a neckcloth.

"I am after walking here all through the night, Like a young lamb in a great flock of sheep; My breast open, my hair loosened out, And how did I find my brother but stretched before me!

"The first place I cried my fill was at the top of the lake; The second place was at the foot of the gallows; The third place was at the head of your dead body Among the Gall, and my own head as if cut in two.

"If you were with me in the lace you had a right to be, Down in Sligo or down in Ballinrobe, It is the gallows would be broken, it is the rope would be cut, And fair-haired Donough going home by the path. Some Sources for the Poems in Yeats's Plays 187

"0 fair-haired Donough, it is not the gallows was fit for you; But to be going to the barn, to be threshing out the straw; To be turning the plough to the right hand and to the left, To be putting the red side of the soil uppermost.

"0 fair-haired Donough, 0 dear brother, It is well I know who it was took you away from me; Drinking from the cup, putting a light to the pipe, And walking in the dew in the cover of the night.

"0 Michael Malley, 0 scourge of misfortune! My brother was no calf of a vagabond cow; But a well-shaped boy on a height or a hillside, To knock a low pleasant sound out of a hurling-stick.

"And fair-haired Donough, is not that the pity, You that would carry well a spur or a boot; I would put clothes in the fashion on you from cloth that would be lasting; I would send you out like a gentleman's son.

"0 Michael Malley, may your sons never be in one another's company; May your daughters never ask a marriage portion of you; The two ends of the table are empty, the house is filled. And fair-haried Donough, my brother, is stretched out.

"There is a marriage portion coming home from Donough, But it is not cattle nor sheep nor horses; But tobacco and pipes and white candles, And it will not be begrudged to them that will use it."

C ["The spouse of Naoise, Erin's woe"]

The poem is based on the second stanza of"Eire's Maid Is She" by William O'Heffernan the Blind. Yeats could have read the work in several sources, including Edward Walsh's Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry, 2nd edn. (Dublin: John O'Daly, 1866) pp. 78-81, the source of the text given below: 188 Editing Yeats's Poems

In Druid vale alone I lay, Oppress'd with care, to weep the day; My death I owed one sylph-like she, Of witchery rare, Beith Eirionn I!

The spouse of Naisi, Erin's wo, The dame that laid proud Illium low, Their charms would fade, their fame would flee, Match'd with my fair, Beith Eirionn I!

Behold her tresses unconfin'd, In wanton ringlets woo the wind, Or sweep the sparkling dew-drops free, My heart's dear maid, Beith Eirionn I!

Fierce passion's slave, from hope exil'd, Weak, wounded, weary, woful, wild; Some magic spell she wove for me, That peerless maid, Beith Eirionn I!

But 0! one noon I clomb a hill, To sigh alone-to weep my fill, And there Heaven's mercy brought to me My treasure rare, Beith Eirionn I!

D ["There's broth in the pot for you, old man"]

In 1904 Yeats claimed that "The words and the air of 'There's Broth in the Pot' were taken down from an old woman known as Cracked Mary, who wanders about the plains of Aidhne, and who sometimes sees unearthly riders on white horses coming through stony fields to her hovel in the night time" (VP1 254). Evidently, Cracked Mary must have been familiar with Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc. (Edinburgh: printed by John Wotherspoon for James Dickson and Charles Elliot, 1776), which includes "I wish that you were dead, Goodman" (II, 207-8). A typed copy of the poem from the second edition (also 1776) is preserved in NLI 31,096. Michael B. Yeats has identified the air as "a folk tune called 'jack the Journeyman"'. The text below is taken from the first edition of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs: Some Sources for the Poems in Yeats's Plays 189

I wish that you were dead, Goodman, And a green sod on your head, goodman, That I might ware my widowhood, Upon a ranting highlandman.

There's sax eggs in the pan, goodman, There's sax eggs in the pan, goodman, There's ane to you, and twa to me, And three to our JOHN HIGHLANDMAN, I wish, &c.

There's beef into the pat, goodman, There's beef into the pat, goodman, The banes for you, and the brew for me, And the beef for our JOHN HIGHLANDMAN. I wish, &c.

There's sax horse in the stable, goodman, There's sax horse in the stable, goodman, There's ane to you, and twa to me, And three to our JOHN HIGHLANDMAN. I wish, &c.

There's sax ky in the byre, goodman, There's sax ky in the byre, goodman, There's nane o' them yours, but there's twa of them mine, And the lave is our JOHN HIGHLANDMAN'S. I wish, &c.

E ["0 Biddy Donahoe"]

After the publication of the first version of this study, Eamonn R. Cantwell graciously sent me a copy of a song entitled "Bridget Donahue", with "Words and Music by Johnny Patterson", pub- lished by Walton's Piano and Musical Instrument Galleries in Dublin. This does not have a publication date, though Patterson is supposed to have lived in the West of Ireland at the beginning of the century. Despite the fact that a printed text available to Yeats has yet to be located, it is evident that the chorus of "Bridget Donahue" is the source for the quatrain in Where There Is Nothing: 190 Editing Yeats's Poems

Oh, Bridget Donahue, I really do love you, Although I'm in America, to you I will be true, Then Bridget Donahue, I'll tell you what I'll do, Just take the name of Patterson and I'll take Donahue.

F ["0 come all ye airy bachelors"]

The beginning of this song is the first line of "The Airy Bachelor", which Yeats could have read in the journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, 2, nos 1-2 (1905) 33: "Come all you airy bachelors, a warning take by me". The remainder seems based on a ballad usually called "Van Diemen's Land" or "The Gallant Poachers". Yeats could have read it under the latter title in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society, 1, no. 4 (1902) 142-43.

Come all you gallant poachers, that ramble free from care, That walk out of a moon-light night with your dog, your gun, and snare; Where the lofty hare and pheasant you have at your command, Not thinking that your last career is on Van Diemen's land.

There was poor Tom Brown from Nottingham, Jack Williams, and poor Joe Were three as daring poachers as the country well does know; At night they were trapanned by the keeper's hideous hand, And for fourteen years transported were unto Van Diemen's Land.

Oh! when we sailed from England we landed at the bay, We had rotten straw for bedding, we dared not to say nay; Our cots were fenced with fire, we slumber where we can, To drive away the wolves and tigers upon Van Diemen's Land.

Oh! when that we were landed, upon that fatal shore, The planters they came flocking round full twenty score or more; They ranked us up like horses, and sold us out of hand, They yoked us to the plough, my boys, to plough Van Diemen's Land. Some Sources for the Poems in Yeats's Plays 191

There was one girl from England, Susan Summers was her name, For fourteen years transported was, we all well knew the same; Our planter bought her freedom, and he married her out of hand, Good usage then she gave to us, upon Van Diemen's Land.

Often, when I am slumbering, I have a pleasant dream, With my sweet girl I am sitting, down by some purling stream, Through England I am roaming, with her at my command, Then waken, broken-hearted, upon Van Diemen's Land.

God bless our wives and families, likewise that happy shore, That isle of sweet contentment, which we shall see no more; As for our wretched females, see them we seldom can, There are twenty to one woman upon Van Diemen's Land.

Come, all you gallant poachers, give ear unto my song, It is a bit of good advice, although it is not long: Lay by your dog and snare; to you I do speak plain, If you knew the hardship we endure you ne'er would poach again.

G ["0, Johnny Gibbons, m],: five hundred healths to you!'] The two couplets from The Unicorn from the Stars, printed together in the revised edition of The Poems, are based on the fourth stanza of "The Whiteboys", sometimes ascribed to Raftery. Yeats would have come across the poem in Douglas Hyde's Songs Ascribed to Raftery (Dublin: Gill and Son, 1903) p. 197:

0 Johnny Gibbons, my five hundred farewells to you, You are long from me away in Germany; It was your heart, without deceitfulness, that was ever (given) to joyousness, And now on this hill, above, we are weak of help. It is told us from the mouth of the author That the sloop whose crew was not baptised shall fire at us, And unless you come for a relief to us in the times of hardship, We are a great pity, beneath the tops of valleys. 192 Editing Yeats's Poems H ["0, the lion shall lose his strength"]

The song is based on an Irish poem translated by Lady Gregory in Poets and Dreamers (p. 89) as follows:

When the lion shall lose its strength, And the bracket Thistle begin to pine, The Harp shall sound sweet, sweet at length, Between the eight and the nine.

The versions used in the early editions of The Unicorn from the Stars are quite close to Lady Gregory's rendering. Yeats revised the song for the 1934 Collected Plays. Douglas Hyde also provides two different versions of the poem, in Songs Ascribed to Raftery (p. 271) and The Religious Songs of Connacht (Dublin: Gill and Son; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) I, 261, describing it as an "old prophecy".

I ["Three that are watching my time to run"]

The poem is based on the opening stanza of "The Worms, the Children, and the Devil" from Douglas Hyde's Religious Songs of Connacht, I, 51. Hyde offers two versions of the stanza, with the first being closer to that in The Unicorn from the Stars:

Three there be, watching for my death, Although they are ever with me (?) Alas that they be not hanged with a gad, The Devil, the children, and the worm.

There be three - my heart it saith - Wish the death of me infirm, Would that they were hanged on a tree, All three, Children, Devil, Worm. Some Sources for the Poems in Yeats's Plays 193 J ["I was going the road one day"]

Yeats explains that he "put into English rhyme three of the many verses of a Gaelic ballad" (VP 778) for use in The Hour-Glass. His source was a translation by Lady Gregory of an Irish folksong, published as "The Noble Enchanter" in the 1901 Christmas number of the Irish Homestead:

I was going the road one fine day, 0, the brown and the yellow ale! And I met with a man that was no right man, 0, love of my heart.

He asked was the young woman with me my daughter, and I said she was my married wife. He asked would I lend her for an hour or a day. "Oh, I would not do that, but I would like to do what is fair. Let you take the upper path and I will go by the road, and whoever she will follow, let him belong to her forever.' He took the upper path and I took the road, and she followed after him, he being in his youth. She stayed walking there the length of three quarters, and she came home after, Mary without shame. She asked me how was I in my health. "As is good with my friends and bad with my enemies. And what would you do if I would die from you?" "I would put a coffin of yellow gold on you." When myself heard those fine words, I lay down and died there. And there were two that went to the woods for timber, and they brought back a half board of holly and a half board of alder. They put me into the boarded coffin, and four yards of the ugliest sack about me, and they lifted me up on their shoulders. "Throw him now into the best hole in the street." "Oh, wait, wait, lay me down, till I tell you a little story about women; a little story today and a little story tomorrow, and a little story every day of the quarter."

And but that my own little mother was a woman, 0, the brown and the yellow ale I I would tell you another little story about women, 0, love of my heart! 194 Editing Yeats's Poems

The following three passages have not been admitted into the revised edition of The Poems.

1 ["Philomel, I've listened oft"] (VP1 247) Except for the change of "nigh" to "near", the two lines which appear in The Pot of Broth are a verbatim quotation from Edward Lysaght's "Kate of Garnavilla" (the first two lines of the second stanza). A convenient source for Yeats would have been The Irish Song Book, ed. Alfred Perceval Graves (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894) p. 22.

2 ["'Twas at the dance at Dermody's that first I caught a sight of her"] (VP1 247) Except for the change of "Darmody's" to "Dermody's", this line in The Pot ofBroth is a verbatim quotation from Francis A. Fahy's "Little Mary Cassidy" (the first line of the second stanza), which Yeats also might have found in Graves's Irish Song Book, p. 115.

3 ["When you were an acorn on the tree-top"] (VPl 51 9) This four-line poem from On Baile's Strand was published by Yeats as "A Folk Verse" in the "Anonymous" section of A Book of Irish Verse (London: Methuen, 1895) p. 249. Yeats added the hyphen in "tree-top" for the 1907 printing of the play; those in "eagle-cock" were added on the proofs for the 1934 Collected Plays. It is likely that Yeats was given the poem by Douglas Hyde, who includes it in A Literary History of Ireland (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899) p. 541. Index

"Airy Bachelor, The", 190 Callan, Edward Alit, Peter, 4, 148-49, 149 n44 Yeats on Yeats: The Last Alspach, Russell K., 4, 4 n9, 141 n29, Introductions and the 'Dublin' 165, 165 nl3 Edition, 12 nnl3-14, 13 n16, 14 Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, n18, 15 n21, 23 nn30-31, 167 Heroic Ballads, Etc., 188 n21, 169 n23 Arrow, The 11-12 Campbell, Laurence, 114 Atlantic Monthly, 78, 84, 86 nl5, 121, Cantwell, Eamonn R., 189 121 n50 Catholic Truth Society, 28 Clark, David R., 18, 36 n17, 135 nl9 Barker, George, 84 n11 "On the Order and Canon of Benn, Ernest, 6, 24-25 Yeats's Plays", 18 n24 Best, Richard Irvine, 176 Blake, William, 175 Clinton-Baddeley, V. C., 174 n2 Bloom, Harold "Reading Poetry with W. B. Yeats, 31 nl3 Yeats", 174 n2 Bookseller, The, 20 Cornell Yeats Series, 147 Bornstein, George, x, 75 n24, 128 Crone, John S., 176 n11, 171 n27 Cuala Press, 52,78-79, 79 n3, 80 n6, Bradford, Curtis, 4, 35 nl6, 79, 82, 83, 109, 118, 129 93-94, 122-23 Curran, Constantine P., 90, 90 n21, "Order of Last Poems, The", 4 nlO 94-95, 95 n27 Yeats at Work, 35 nl6, 94 n26, 122 n51 Danaher, Kevin, 129 n25 Yeats's "Last Poems" Again, 4 nll, 82 n8 Davie, Donald, 165 Brett, George P., 12-13, 13 nl7, 15, De Cosson, Anthony 24-25, 24 nl, 25 n2 Mareotis: Being a Short Account of Bridges, Robert, 35 nl6 the History and Ancient "Bridget Donahue", 189-90 Monuments of the North-Western Broad Sheet, A, 145 Desert of Egypt and of Lake Broadside, A (December 1937), 70, Mareotis, 92 n24 146-47 De Jubainville, H. d'Arbois Brown, Maureen, 86 nl5 Irish Mythological Cycle, The, 96 Browning, Robert, 125 Dickson, Lovat, 22 "My Last Duchess", 112 Dowden, Edward, 177 Bullen, A. H., 5, 159 Dryden, John, 136 n22 Byrne, John Francis, 139 n25 D'Alton, John, 185

195 196 Index

Dublin University Review, 127, 129 Gael, The, 125 Duff, Arthur, 58 n5 "Gallant Poachers, The", 190 Durkan, Michael, 82n8 Garnett, Edward, 128 Garnett, Richard, 126 n7 Edition de Luxe (later Coole Gawsworth, John, 60 Edition), 1, 2, 5-13, 13 n15, Georg, Stefan, 72 15-17, 18 n24, 19,21 n28, 22- Glasgow, Ellen, 20, 22 25, 38 n21, 39--41, 43, 45-46, Goldoni, Carlo 53, 82, 136 n21, 152-53, 155- Locandiera, La, 138 59, 159 n6, 163--65, 167--69, Gonne, Maud, 114, 114 n44 168n22,169n24,171 n27,174 Servant of the Queen, A, 114 n44 n2 "Yeats and Ireland", 114 n44 Eliot, T. S. Gould, Warwick, 11 n11, 127 n7, "Hollow Men, The", 63 139 n25, 152 nn1-2, 155 n4, Ellis, Edwin J., 128 167 nn19-20 Ellmann, Richard, 28, 80 n6, 106 "How Ferencz Renyi Spoke Up, n33 Part Two", 124 n2 Identity ofYeats, The, 29 n9, 80 n6, Graves, Arthur Perceval 106 n33 Irish Song Book, 138 n24, 94 Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edn), Gregory, Isabella Augusta, Lady, 9- 92 n24 10, 11 n12, 41 n3, 124, 126, Erasmian, The, 67 136, 138-39,147-51,150n46, 151 n47 Fahy, Francis A. Cuchulain of Muirthemne, 95-96, "Little Mary Cassidy", 194 134 Ferguson, Samuel Lady Gregory's Journals, Volume Lays of the Western Gael, One, 148-50, 150 nn 45-46 185 "Noble Enchanter, The", 193 Finneran, Richard J., 86 n15 Poets and Dreamers, 186, 192 Editing Yeats's Poems, 114 n44 Seven Short Plays, 136 n20 "Manuscripts of W. B. Yeats's Travelling Man, The, 136 'Reprisals', The", 14 7 n41, 149 "West Irish Ballads", 186 n44 "West Irish Folk Ballads", 186 "Note on the Scribner Archive at Gregory, Robert, 149-50, 150 n45, the Humanities Research 151 n47 Center, A", 38 n20 Grierson, H. J. C., 10 Olympian and the Leprechaun: W. B. Gurd, Patty YeatsandjamesStephens, The, 28 Early Poetry of William Butler Yeats, n6 The, 45 n6 "Order of Yeats's Poems, The", 152 nl Hardiman, James "Sources of James Stephens's Irish Minstrelsy, 185 Reincarnations: 'Alone I did it, Hardy, Thomas, 6 barring for the noble Harris, Daniel A., 37 n18, 98 assistance of the gods', The", Yeats: Coole Park & Ballylee, 98 n28 136 n22 Hartnoll, Miss, 44 Fletcher, Ian, 128 n10 Heald, Edith Shackleton, 60, 60 n7, Freyer, Grattan 84 nll, 87, 105, 105 n32, 106 "W. B. Yeats", 147 n40 n33, 107--08, 115, 141, 143 Index 197

Heaney, Seamus, x, 75 n24 journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, Henley, William Ernest, 6 190 Henn, T. R., 148-49, 149 n49 Last Essays, 148 n43 Keats, john, 20 "W. B. Yeats and the Poetry of Kelly, JohnS., 60 n8, 79 n2, 125 n5 War", 148 n43 "Aesthete among the Athletes", Hibernia, 176-84, 176 n1 125 n4, 126 n6 Higgins, F. R., 54 n1, 71, 78-79,79 Kenner, Hugh, 165-66, 166 n14 n2, 80n6, 87, 105, 116-18, 119 "Reflections on the Status of the n48, 141-42,141 n32, 141 n34, Text", 174 n2 142 n33 "Sacred Book of the Arts, The", Hone, Joseph, 177 165-66, 166 n15 W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939, 84n11, 91 Kiernan, T. ]., 79 n3 n22, 114 n44, 177 n4 Kingsley, Charles, 19-21, 62, 157 Hood, Connie K., 166 Kipling, Rudyard, 11 n12 "Remaking of A Vision, The", 3 Koch, Vivienne n6, 166 n16 W. B. Yeats, The Tragic Phase: A Horniman, Michael, 86 n15 Study of the Last Poems, 112 n39 Hyde, Douglas, 136, 136 n21, 139- Krans, Horatio Sheafe 40, 139 n26, 194 William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary History of Ireland, A, 194 Literary Revival, 45 n6 Religious Songs of Connacht, 139, 139 n26, 192 Latham, H. S., 24, 25 n2 Songs Ascribed to Raftery, 191-92 Laurie, T. Werner, 7 Lavery, John Irish Book Lover, 176-77, 176 nn2-3 Blessing of the Colours, The, 75-76 Irish Bulletin, 148 n42 Leisure Hour, The, 131 n13 Irish Homestead, 124, 124 n1, 193 Letters to Macmillan, ed. Simon Irish Independent, 90, 94 Nowell-Smith, 6 n2 Irish Literary Theatre, 146 Letters toW. B. Yeats, 35 n15, 154 Irish Minstrelsy, ed. H. Halliday, n3 Sparling, 185 Life and Letters, 133 nl5 Irish Monthly, 124 n1 Life and Letters To-day, 86 n15 Irish Press, 90 London Mercury, 60-61,60 n7, 60 n9, Irish Times, 79 n3, 90, 94 70, 78, 78n1,83-86,84n13,86 "Irish Tragedy, An", 148 n15, 105, 107, 109-10, 115- Irish Weekly Independent, 124-25 23, 117 n46, 120 n49, 121 n50, Irish Writing, 166 174 "I wish you were dead, Goodman", Longford Printing Press, 100, 100 188-89 n30, 141-42, 142 n33 Lysaght, Edward "Jack the Journeyman", 188 "Kate of Garnavilla", 194 James, Henry, 6, 64 Lyster, T. W., 176 Jeffares, A. Norman, 165-66, 165 nl3 Macleish, Archibald New Commentary on the Poems ofW. "Public Speech and Private B. Yeats, A, 113 n42, 114 n44, Speech in Poetry", 123 n52 152 nl, 165 n12, 166 n17 Macmillan, Frederick, 5 journal of the Folk-Song Society, 190 Macmillan, Harold, 9, 11 n12, 18, 198 Index

35,39,41,43,59,79,82, 153, Moore, T. Sturge, 10 n9, 60 156, 165-66, 171, 171 n27 Moore, Virginia Macmillan (London), 1, 5-13, 16, Unicorn: W. B. Yeats' Search for 18-25, 21 n28, 25 nn2-3, 35 Reality, The, 91 n22 n16, 37,39-41,52-53,59,62 Morgan, Charles, 2, 6 n12, 63 nl4, 81-82, 83 n9, House of Macmillan (1843-1943), 133-34, 153-55, 158 n6, 160, The, 2 n5, 6 n1 162 n11, 163-65, 168-69, 168 Morgan, Louise, 31 n22, 171 Writers at Work, 9 n5, 31 n13 Macmillan (New York), 12, 24-25, Morley, John, 6 28 n7, 37 n19, 52, 79, 162 nll Munch-Pedersen, Ole Madge, Charles, 84 n11 "Yeats's Synge-Song", 137 n23 Mann, Thomas, 123 n52 Mannin, Ethel, 52, 70, 141 Nation, The, 78, 84, 86, 86 n15, 105- Marcus, Phillip L., 134 07, 107n35, 119, 120n49, 147, "Yeats's 'Last Poems': A 150--51 Reconsideration", 80 n5 New Ireland Review, 139 n26 Mark, Thomas, 2-3,2 n5, 9, 11 n12, New Republic, The, 84 n12, 86, 86 12, 16, 26, 28, 30 n12, 33-35, n15, 107, 109-10, 116-17 35 n15, 37 n19, 41-45, 45 n6, North & South, 125 47-50,54,55 n3, 56, 58, 61,61 nl1,64-67,64n17, 70--71,73- O'Connor, Frank, 54 n1, 141 n32 77, 79-82, 80 n5, 86-87, 92- O'Donnell, William H. 93, 103, 109-10, 111 n38, 115, "Infrared and Ultraviolet 117, 123, 127, 127 n7, 131, Photography of Manuscripts", 133, 136 n21, 145, 147, 152- 91 n23 53, 161, 164-66, 167 n18, 168, O'Heffernan, William (the Blind) 171, 173-74, 173 n1 "Eire's Maid Is She", 187-88 Matheson, Hilda, 118 O'Shea, Edward McGann, Jerome J., 169-70 Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats's Critique ofModem Textual Criticism, Library, A, 45 n6 A, 170 n25 "'An Old Bullet Imbedded in the McHugh, Roger Flesh': The Migration of "james Joyce's Synge-Song", 137 Yeats's 'Three Songs to the Old n23 Tune'", 100 n31 McTaggart, J. MeT. E., 110, 112, 6 Fotharta, Domhnall 113 n42 Siasma an Gheimhridh, 139, 139 Human Immortality and Pre- n25 existence, 113 n42 6 hAodha, Micheal, 176 Nature of Existence, The, 113 n42 "When Was Yeats First Meir, Colin Published?", 176 n1 Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats: 0 Hehir, Brendan, 140 The Anglo-Irish Heritage in "Yeats and the Irish Language", Subject and Style, The, 137 n23 140 nn27-28 Mercier, Vivian "Douglas Hyde's 'Share' in The Parker, Hershel, 170 Unicorn from the Stars", 136 n21 Flawed Texts and Literary Icons: Monthly Review, 186 Literary Authority in America, Moore, George, 145-46 170 n26 Index 199

Parkinson, Thomas, 64 Shakespear, Olivia, 8 W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry, 31 Shakespeare Head Press, 5 nnl3--l4, 64, 64 nl6 Shaugnessy, Linda, 8 n4 Patterson, Johnny, 189 Shaw, George Bernard, 150, 150 Pelham, Elizabeth, 82 n45 Perrine, Laurence Siegel, Sandra, 143 n35 "Yeats's 'Crazy Jane and Jack the Southern Review, The, 22 Journeyman"', 31 n13 Sparrow, John, 72-73, 73 n22, 76 Phillpotts, Eden, 6 Spectator, The, 78, 85, 86 n15, 96 ["Philomel, I've listened oft"], 194 Spender, Stephen, 84 nil Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Stallworthy,Jon, 35,35 nl6, 95 n27, 126 105 n32, 112, 121 n50, 127 n7 Between the Lines: Yeats's Poetry in Quinn, Ellen, 14 7 the Making, 35 nn15-16, 112 n39, 127 n7 R. & R. Clark (Edinburgh), 171 Vision and Revision in Yeats's "Last Raftery, Anthony Poems", 66 n18, 70 n21, 89 n20, "Whiteboys, The", 191 92 n25, 95 n27, 105 n32, 121 Rann: An Ulster Quarterly of Poetry, n50 148, 151 n48 Starkey, James Sullivan, 7 Ronsard, Pierre de Stephens, James, 28 "Quand vous serez bien vielle", Stevenson, Robert Louis, 176 138 Stewart, James Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 17 5 "Three That Are Watching My Ruddock, Margot, 67-68 Time to Run", 137 n23 "I take thee, Life", 63 Sultan, Stanley, 82 Lemon Tree, The, 68 n19 Yeats at His last, 4 n11, 82 n8 Russell, George W., 124 Swift, Jonathan, 138

Scattering Branches: Tributes to the Taylor, Robert H., 128 Memory of W. B. Yeats, ed. Times, The (London), 149--50 Stephen Gwynn, 114 n44 Schuchard, Ronald, 124 n2 Uniform Edition (Macmillan, 1922- Scott-James, R. A., 60--61, 60 nlO, 1926), 5-8, 17, 156 69, 78 n1, 79,83-89,84 nn 11- United Irishman, 124, 186 13, 86 nn15-16, 95, 115, 121 Unterecker, John n50 Reader's Guide toW. B. Yeats, A, 31 &ribner, Charles, 12, 14-15 nn13-14 Scribner Edition (later Dublin Unwin, T. Fisher, 6 n2 Edition), 12-23, 37-39, 38 n21, 57, 57 n4, 59, 62, 62 nl3, "Van Diemen's Land", 190-91 65-72, 81 n7, 87, 90, 90 n21, 92-99, 101, 103-5, 108--09, Wade, Allan Ill, 115-17,132-33, 133n14, Bibliography of the Writings ofW. B. 143-44, 152, 156-57, 158 n6, Yeats, A, 1, 3 n7, 6 n2, 28 n6, 82 165, 167-69, 168n22, 169n24, n8, 135 n18, 141 n29, 177 171 Walsh, Edward Seaton, Charles, 86 n15 Irish Popular Songs, 138, 185 Seidman, David, 86 n15 Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry, 187 200 Index

Watt, A. P., 5-8, 12-13, 13 n15, 14- "Corrections to Yeats's Poems" 20, 21 n28, 23-25, 45, 52, 59, (April 1938), 60, 65, 67, 76 62, 62 n12, 86 n15, 153, 156- "Notes on 'A Note on the Texts"', 61, 57, 168--69, 168 n22 65, 71, 87, 105-07, 109-10 Wellesley, Dorothy, 60, 60 n8, 65- Yeats, John Butler, 177 66, 70, 84 n11, 85 n14, 88--90, ]. B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. 88 n17, 92-93, 92 n25, 95, Yeats and Others, 177 nn4-5 105-08, 106 n33, 116, 118 Yeats, Lolly, 79 n3 Westminster Gazette, 148 n42 Yeats, Michael B., 40,41 n3, 60, 72, Wheelock, John Hall, 14-15, 15 79 n3, 137-38, 138 n24, 141 n20, 15 n22, 17-23 n31, 157 n5, 188 ["When you were an acorn on the "W. B. Yeats and Irish Folk tree-top"], 194 Song", 137 n23 Wilcox, Karen, 86 n15 "Words and Music", 137 n23 Williams, A. M., 128 n11 Yeats, W. B., works by: Wordsworth, William, 59 "Acre of Grass, An", 67 "Worms, the Children, and the "Adoration of the Magi, The", Devil, The", 192 139-40 "All Souls' Night", 37, 44 "Y", 176-77; poems by: "Alternative Song for the Severed "'Sweet Aura!"', 176, 179-80 Head in 'The King of the Great "Going!", 181 Clock Tower"', 58, 58 n5, 135 "Love's Clairvoyance", 184 "Among School Children", 48, "Love's Silences", 179 93, 161-62 "L'Envoi", 182 "Apparitions, The", 120 "Recall", 183 "Are You Content", 60 n7, 76 "Sonnet", 176 n1, 178 At the Hawk's Well, 135, 135 n18 "Sonnet. [I)", 180 Autobiographies, 5 "Sonnet. [II)", 182 Autobiographies [unpublished, "Sonnet. [Ill)", 183 Edition de Luxe], 157 '"The Wings of a Dove"', 178 Autobiographies [unpublished, Yeats, George (Mrs. W. B. Yeats), 1, Scribner Edition], 18 n24, 19, 2 n4, 4, 11 nl2, 12, 19, 21 n28, 157 39-4 7, 50, 53-54, 54 n2, 55 n3, "[Avalon)", 80 n6, 144-45, 144 56-58,57 n4, 60, 62,62 n13, 63 n36 n14,64-68, 70-77, 73n22, 79- "Baile and Aillinn", 154 83, 79 n4, 80 n5, 81 n7, 82 n8, On Baile's Strand, 194 84 n11, 84 n12, 85-93,90 n21, "Ballad of Earl Paul, The", 125 91 n23, 92 n24, 95, 97, 100 n30, "Ballads and Lyrics", 158 103-06, 108-11, 111 n38, 115, "Beautiful Lofty Things", 40, 117, 119 n48, 123, 127, 129- 114, 114 n44 31, 133, 136 n21, 141-42, 141 "Black Tower, The", 79 n4, 84 n32, 144, 147-49, 151 n48, n13, 97-98 152, 152 n1, 156-57, 161-62, "Blood and the Moon", 33,36-37 165-68, 165 n13, 166 n16, 167 "Blood Bond, The", 145-46 n18,171,171n27,173-74,173 Book of Irish Verse, A (editor), n1 194 "Corrections to Yeats's Poems" "Broadsides 1939-40" (March 1938), 60 [unpublished], 119 n48 Index 201

"Bronze Head, A", 62 n13, 81 n7, "Crazy Jane Talks with the 108-15 Bishop", 108 "Brown Penny", 38 "Crossways", 135, 154, 158 "Byzantium", 33 "Cuchulain Comforted", 79 n4, Cat and the Moon, The, 157 84 n13, 98-99 Celtic Twilight, The, 93 "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea", "Chambermaid's First Song, 122-23 The", 66--67 "Curse of Cromwell, The", 68--69 "Choice, The", 43, 54, 164 Cutting of an Agate, The, 5 "Circus Animals' Desertion, "Dancer at Cruachan and Cro- The", 80 n6, 122-23 Patrick, The", 34, 50 "Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes, Death ofCuchulain, The, 62 n13, The", 135 79-81, 80 n5, 90, 123, 134 Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Death of Cuchulain: Manuscript Volume One, 1865-1895, The, Materials, including the Author's 126 n5 Final Text, The, 134 n16 Collected Plays (1934), 17, 56, 58 Death of Synge, The, 7-8 n5, 131, 155, 192, 194 "Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus, Collected Poems ( 1933), 4, 6 n2, 13, The", 34 17, 18n24,23-41,25n4,28n7, "Demon and Beast", 92 30 n12, 37 n19, 41 n3, 43,46-- "Dialogue of Self and Soul, A", 53, 50 nlO, 58, 64 n17, 122, 28, 33 135, 152-56, 159--65, 162 n11, Diarmuid and Crania, 145-46, 146 165n13, 167-72,167n21,174, n39 174 n2 "From 'Oedipus at Colonus"', Collected Poems (1950/1951), 2 n8, 159--60 3-4, 162 nll, 166 ["Do not make a great keening"], Collected Poems ( 1956), 166 135 n19 Collected Works in Verse and Prose, "To Dorothy Wellesley", 63 nl4, 5, 46, 139, 158 68 "Co1onus' Praise", 160--62 "Down by the Salley Gardens", ["Come ride and ride to the 136--38, 138 n24 garden"], 135-36, 136 n20 Dramatis Personae, 18 n24, 41 n3, "Commentary on 'A Parnellite at 157 Parnell's Funeral'", 18 n24 "Drinking Song, A", 138 "Coole and Ballylee, 1931", 33, "Drumcliff and Rosses", 93 42-43, 47 n9, 54, 164 Early Poems and Stories, 5--6, 46 "Coole Park, 1929", 42 Essays, 5 Correspondence of Robert Bridges Essays [unpublished, Scribner and W. B. Yeats, The, 35 n16 Edition], 18 n24, 19 Countess Cathleen, The, 46 n7 Essays and Introductions, 45 n6 "Crazed Girl, A", 67--68 Estrangement, 7-8, 18 n24, "Crazy Jane and Jack the 157 Journeyman", 28-32 "Fairy Pedant, The", 124 n1 "Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at "Fascination of What's Difficult, the Dancers", 34 The", 48 "Crazy Jane on God", 33 "Fiddler of Dooney, The", 42 "[Crazy Jane on the Mountain]", Fighting the Waves, 123 143-44 "First Confession, A", 35 202 Index

"Fool by the Roadside, The", In the Seven Wood5, 158 n7 160-61, 160 nlO, 162 nil, 164 "Indian to His Love, The", 50 "Fragments", 160-63 "Introduction" to Essays and "From the 'Antigone"', 19, 164 Introductions, I7, I9, 2I-22, 2I ["Full moody is my love and sad"], nn27-28, 22 n29, 168 139 "Introduction to my Plays, An", Full Moon in March, A, l, 52-55, 17, 19,21-22,2I nn27-28,22 57 n4, 58-59, 58 n5, 60 n7, 64, n29, 168 81, 133, 133 n15, 135, 138, "[Introductory Lines]" to The 146--47 Shadowy Waters, 41 "From 'A Full Moon in March'", "[Introductory Rhymes]", 48 53, 56 "Ireland Bewitched", 41 n3 "From The Green Helmet and Other Island of Statues, The, I35 Poems", 53 "J. M. Synge and the Ireland of "General Introduction for my his Time", 45 n6 Work, A", 17, 19,21-22,21 "John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. nn27-28, 22 n29, 168 Mary Moore", 116-19 "Gift of Harun Al-Rashid, The", John Sherman and Dhoya, 83, 83 159 n8, 160-63 niO, 139 "Girl's Song", 34 King of the Great Clock Tower, The, Green Helmet, The, 134 53, 133, 133 n15 Green Helmet and Other Poems, King of the Great Clock Tower: The (1910), 158 CommentariesandPoems, The, I8 Green Helmet and Other Poems, The n24, 52, 60 n7, 133 nl5 (1912), 53, 55, 158 n7 King's Threshold, The, 43 Herne's Egg, The, 82, 133-34 "Lady's Second Song, The", 66, Herne's Egg: A Stage Play, The, 72 133-34 Land of Heart's Desire, The, 132 Herne's Egg and Other Plays, The, 58 "Lapis Lazuli", 65 n5, 133, 133 n 15 "Last Poems, 1936-1939" "Hero, the Girl, and the Fool, [unpublished Coole Edition The", 160-62, I60 nlO, I62 proofs], 60, 62, 62 ni3, 65-70, nil, 164 72, 75-76, 80, 8I n7, 87, 90 "Her Vision in the Wood", 93 n21,92-99, lOI, 103-04,106- "High Talk", 119-20 09, Ill, 1I5-I7, 119-20, I22- "Hound Voice", 115-I6 23, 143-45 "Hour Before Dawn, The", 50 Last Poems and Two Plays, 4, 40, Hour-Glass, The, 36, 132, 193 61-62,65,71,78-87,83 n9, 84 "How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent", ni3, 92, 94-97, 100 n30, 101- 124, 124 n2 06, 108-11, 115-17, 119-20, ["I sing a song of Jack and Jill'], 122, 134, 144 n37, 173 133 Last Poems & Plays, 1I, 47, 53, 55, ["I walked among the Seven 60-6I, 62 n13, 63, 65, 68, 71, Woods of Coole"], 51 73-75, 78-79, 81-82, 81 n7, ["I was going the road one day"], 86-87, 94, 96-99, lOI-103, 193 I05-06,108-II, 115-17, I19- ["I will go cry with the woman"], 20, 122-23, I43-45, I65-66, 186 167n21, 173 "In Tara's Halls", 84 nl3, 103-05 Later Poems, 5-6, I35, 158 n7 Index 203

"Leda and the Swan", 161 "Notes" to The Hour-Glass, 132- ["Let images of basalt, black, 33, 133 n14 immovable"], 81 ["0, Johnny Gibbons, my five Letters, 177 hundred healths to you!"], 191 Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to ["0, the lion shall lose his Dorothy Wellesley, 60, 70 n20, 84 strength"], 192 n11,91 n22, 106nn33-34, 107 ["0 Biddy Donahue"], 189 n36, 114n44, 116n45, 117 ["0 come all ye airy bachelors"], n47, 121 n50, 123n52, 141 n30 190 "Long-legged Fly", 106--08, 106 Oedipus at Colonus, 7, 157 n33 "Old Age of Queen Maeve, The", "Love Song/From the Gaelic", 50, 154 126, 138 "Old Stone Cross, The", 60 n9 "Man and the Echo", 120-22 "Old Tom Again", 27, 34 "Man Young and Old, A", 27, 160 "On a Picture of a Black Centaur "Meditations in Time of Civil by Edmund Dulac", 161--62 War", 108 On the Boiler, 54, 54n2, 62 n13, 78, Memoirs, 114 n44 80-81, 80 n6, 100, 100 nn29- "In Memory of Major Robert 30, 103, 140-45, 142 n33, 144 Gregory", 64 n18 nn36-37 "Meru", 59 Only Jealousy of Emer, The, 135 "Michael Robartes and the "O'Rahilly, The", 69 Dancer", 40, 93 ["Out of sight is out of mind"], Mosada (1943), 127-31, 127 nn8- 139 9, 174 Oxford Book of Modern Verse "Mother of God, The", 27-28, 33 (editor), 17, 63, 63 n15 "Mourn- And Then Onward!", Packet for Ezra Pound, A, 7-8 124 "Parnell's Funeral", 58 "Municipal Gallery Re-visited, "Parnell's Funeral and Other The", 71-76 Poems", 52-53, 55, 146 "My Own Poetry", 17 4 n2 Per Arnica Silentia Lunae, 5 "My Own Poetry Again", 84 n11 "Phases of the Moon, The", 3 7, 40 Mythologies, 59 n6 "Pilgrim, The", 70 Mythologies and the Irish Dramatic Player Queen, The, 135 Movement [unpublished, Plays and Controversies, 5 Edition de Luxe], 9 n8, 10, Plays I [unpublished, Scribner 139 Edition], 18-19 Mythologies and The Irish Dramatic Plays II [unpublished, Edition de Movement [unpublished, Luxe], 167 n18, 168 n22 Scribner Edition], 18-19 Plays II (unpublished, Scribner "Nativity, A", 81 n7, 120 Edition], 18-19, 157, 167 n18, New Poems, ix, 40, 53, 59-76, 63 168 n22 n14, 81-84,86, 145, 173 n1 Plays in Prose and Verse, 5, 56, 135 "News for the Delphic Oracle", n19 107, 109 Poems (1895), 6, 6 n2, 44, 135, 158 Nine One-Act Plays, 56-57, 57 n4, Poems (1901), 46, 46 n7 58 n5 Poems (1904), 46, 46 n7 "Nineteen Hundred and Poems (1912), 45 Nineteen", 147-48 Poems (1932) [unpublished, 204 Index

Edition de Luxe], 4, 9-11, 24- "Roger Casement", 145 25,28-29,31,43,46,48-49, "Rose, The", 154, 158 50-51, 50 niO, 152-54, 158- "Sailing to Byzantium", 35 n16, 61, 16~5. 169-71, 173-74, 174 n2 173 nl Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A "Poems 1933-1937" Variorum Edition, The, 9 n8, 11 [unpublished, Edition de Luxe n11, 139 and Scribner Edition], 53 ["Seven paters seven times"], Poems (1937) [unpublished, 139-40, 139 n25, 139 n26 Scribner Edition], 18-19, 37- Seven Poems and a Fragment, 160, 38, 47--48, 57 n4, 170 nlO Poems ( 1939) [unpublished, Shadowy Waters, The, 153-54, 158, Edition de Luxe], 41--45, 54, 158 n7 56-57,61-62,64-65,67-68, "Shepherd and Goatherd", 107 72 "She Who Dwelt among the Poems (1949), 1, 3--4, 31, 39, 42- Sycamores", 124 43,45,47-50,47 n9, 53-55,55 "Solomon to Sheba", 50 n3, 57-58,61,63,64 n17, 68, "Song of Spanish Insurgents", 74-75, 80, 103, 158, 161, 162 125 nil, 164-66, 173-74 "Song of the Happy Shepherd, Poems: A New Edition, The, 65, 75 The", 45--46, 46 n8 n24, 145, 174 "Song of Wandering Aengus, Poems, Second Series, 158 n7 The", 44 "Poems from 'A Full Moon in Sophocles' King Oedipus, 132, 157 March"', 53 Speckled Bird, The, 91 n23 Poems Lyrical and Narrative, 159 Speech and Two Poems, A, 71, 73, Poems of Spenser (editor), 74 n23 75 Poetical Works, The, 46, 46 n7, 158 "Spelling of Gaelic Names, The", "Politics", 105 n32, 123 43 Pot of Broth, The, 135, 194 "Spinning Song", 145 n38 "Prayer for my Daughter, A", 42 "Spur, The", 69-70 "Protestants' Leap, The", 125-26 "Statesman's Holiday, The", 80 Purgatory, 54, 79-82, 80 n5, 100, n6, 144 100n30, 114n44, 141, 144n36 "Stick oflncense, A", 84 n13, 86 n Purgatory: Manuscript Materials 16, 115 Including the Author's Final Text, Stories of Michael Robartes and 143 n35 His Friends, 7, 7 n3, 160, 160 "Red Hanrahan's Curse", 139 n9 "Reprisals", 147-51, 147 n41, 148 "Street Dancers", 131 n13 n43, 149 n44, 150 nn45--46, "Sweet Dancer", 65, 72 151 nn47--48 "Swift's Epitaph", 138 Responsibilities, 55 "Tables of the Law: A Critical Responsibilities and Other Poems, 5, Text, The", 46 n7 135 ["The bravest from the gods but Reveries Over Childhood & Youth, 5 ask"], 145 "Ribh considers Christian Love ["The poet, Owen Hanrahan, insufficient", 58 under a bush of may"], 139 "Ribh Prefers an Older ["The spouse of Naoise, Erin's Theology", 60 n7 woe"], 187 Index 205

["There's broth in the pot for you, Vision, A [unpublished, Scribner old man"], 188 Edition], 18 n24, 19 '["They shall be remembered for Vision,A(1937), 7-8,17,18n24, ever"], 135 n19 37-38,40 "Three Beggars, The", 40, 41 n3, Vision, A (1938), 166 n16 43 Vision, A (1962), 3 n6 "Three Bushes, The", 66 W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: "Three Marching Songs", 53-55, Their Correspondence, 1901- 54 n2, 55 n3, 78, 80 n6, 84 n13, 1937, 10 n9 98 n28, 10~3. 100 nn29-30, "Wanderings of Oisin, The", 44, 146-47 95, 131, 154, 158-59 "Three Monuments, The", 160 Wanderings of Oisin and Other "Three Songs to the One Poems, The, 127-31, 127 n9, Burden", 78, 84 n13, 85 128nll,130n12, 131 n13,174 "Three Songs to the Same Tune", "Well and the Tree, The", 135 53-55, 55 n3, 58 n5, 100, 100 "What Magic Dreum?", 59 n31,103, 146-47, 147n40, 173 ("What message comes to famous "Three that are watching my time Thebes from the Golden to run"], 192 House?"], 132 "To a friend", 60 n9, 63 n14 "What Then?", 67 ["To a Garret or Cellar a wheel I Wheel5 and Butterflies, 18 n24, 81, send"], 145 145, 156, 168 n22 "Tom O'Roughley", 44-45 "When You are Old", 138 "Tom the Lunatic", 34 Where There Is Nothing, 146, 189 "Tower, The", 48 ["White shell, white wing"], 135 Tower, The, 9 n7, 11, 24, 25 n4, 26, ["Why should not Old Men be 159-64, 160 n10 Mad?"], 143 "'Twas at the dance at Dermody's "Wild Old Wicked Man, The", 69 that first I caught a sight of Wild Swans at Coole, The ( 1919), 5, her"], 194 64 n17 "Two Kings, The", 40, 49, 154 Wind Among the Reeds, The, 154, "Two Songs from a Play", 160--61 158 "Two Songs Rewritten for the Winding Stair, The, 9 n9, 26 Tune's Sake", 55-57,57 n4, 58 WindingStairandOtherPoems, The, n5, 135, 138, 185 7 n3, 26-28, 28 n7, 30-37, 37 Uncollected Prose, 41 n3, 150 n45 n19, 47, 47 n9, 50, 81, 164 "Under Ben Bulben", 78-80, 84 "Wisdom", 160--61 n13, 85,85n14, 87-95,166 "Wisdom of the King, The", 139 Unicorn from the Stars, The, 136 "Withering of the Boughs, The", n21, 191-92 49-50 "Vacillation", 33 "Woman Young and Old, A", 27 Variorum Edition of the Plays, The, WordsforMusicPerhaps, 26-27,29 133 n15, 134 "Writings of William Blake, The", Variorum Edition of the Poems, The, 175 n3 ix, 4, 35 nl6, 55 n3, 75, 84, 93, 103, 107 n35, 108 n37, 120 Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 22-23 n49, 125 n3, 135, 141 n29, '"The Thinking of the Body': 148-49, 165 n13 Yeats in the Autobiographies", Vision,A(1925),5, 7, 160n10, 162 22 n29