The Collected Poems William Butler Yeats 1889-1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . 6 THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES . 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . 8 THE INDIAN UPON GOD . 11 THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES . 12 EPHEMERA . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . 16 TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER . 17 DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS . 18 THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN . 18 THE BALLAD OF FATHER O’HART . 19 THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE . 20 THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER . 22 THE ROSE 26 TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME . 26 FERGUS AND THE DRUID . 26 CUCHULAIN’S FIGHT WITH THE SEA . 28 THE ROSE OF THE WORLD . 31 THE ROSE OF PEACE . 31 THE ROSE OF BATTLE . 32 A FAERY SONG . 33 THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE . 34 ii THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS A CRADLE SONG . 34 THE PITY OF LOVE . 35 THE SORROW OF LOVE . 35 WHEN YOU ARE OLD . 36 THE WHITE BIRDS . 36 A DREAM OF DEATH . 37 THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE . 37 WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? . 38 THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND . 38 THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS . 40 THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER . 41 THE BALLAD OF FATHER GILLIGAN . 41 THE TWO TREES . 43 TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . 45 THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS 49 THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE . 49 THE EVERLASTING VOICES . 49 THE MOODS . 50 THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART . 50 THE HOST OF THE AIR . 50 THE FISH . 52 THE UNAPPEASABLE HOST . 52 INTO THE TWILIGHT . 53 THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS . 53 THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER . 54 THE HEART OF THE WOMAN . 54 THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE . 55 HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND HIS BELOVED, AND LONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD . 55 HE BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE . 56 HE REPROVES THE CURLEW . 56 HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY . 57 A POET TO HIS BELOVED . 57 HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES . 58 CONTENTS iii TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR . 58 THE CAP AND BELLS . 59 THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG . 60 THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS . 60 HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS . 61 HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY . 61 HE HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE . 62 HE THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED . 62 THE BLESSED . 62 THE SECRET ROSE . 64 MAID QUIET . 65 THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION . 65 THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIEND FOR OLD FRIENDS . 65 THE LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COM- ING DAYS . 66 THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS . 66 HE WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD . 67 HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN . 67 HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF THE CONSTELLATIONS OF HEAVEN . 68 THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY . 68 IN THE SEVEN WOODS 72 IN THE SEVEN WOODS . 72 THE ARROW . 72 THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED . 73 OLD MEMORY . 73 NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART . 74 THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS . 74 ADAM’S CURSE . 75 RED HANRAHAN’S SONG ABOUT IRELAND . 76 THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER . 77 UNDER THE MOON . 77 THE RAGGED WOOD . 78 O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG . 78 iv THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES . 79 THE HAPPY TOWNLAND . 80 THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS 84 HIS DREAM . 84 A WOMAN HOMER SUNG . 84 WORDS . 85 NO SECOND TROY . 86 RECONCILIATION . 86 KING AND NO KING . 87 PEACE . 87 AGAINST UNWORTHY PRAISE . 88 THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT . 88 A DRINKING SONG . 89 THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME . 89 ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVER- SITY HAVE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE . 89 TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD PO- ETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND MINE . 90 THE MASK . 90 UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION . 91 AT THE ABBEY THEATRE (Imitated from Ronsard) . 91 THESE ARE THE CLOUDS . 92 AT GALWAY RACES . 92 A FRIEND’S ILLNESS . 93 ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME . 93 BROWN PENNY . 93 RESPONSIBILITIES 97 THE GREY ROCK . 98 TO A WEALTHY MAN WHO PROMISED A SECOND SUBSCRIP- TION TO THE DUBLIN MUNICIPAL GALLERY IF IT WERE PROVED THE PEOPLE WANTED PICTURES . 102 SEPTEMBER 1913 . 103 TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING . 104 PAUDEEN . 105 CONTENTS v TO A SHADE . 105 WHEN HELEN LIVED . 106 ON THOSE THAT HATED ‘THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD’, 1907 . 106 THE THREE BEGGARS . 107 THE THREE HERMITS . 109 BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED . 110 RUNNING TO PARADISE . 110 THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN . 111 A SONG FROM ‘THE PLAYER QUEEN’ . 115 THE REALISTS . 116 THE WITCH . 116 ME PEACOCK . 116 THE MOUNTAIN TOMB . ..