Table of Contents
INTRODUCTIONEARLY POEMS I: BALLADS AND LYRICS:
To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire - The Song of the Happy Shepherd - The Sad Shepherd - The Cloak, The Boat, and The Shoes - Anashuya and Vijaya - The Indian Upon God - The Indian to His Love - The Falling of the Leaves - Ephemera - The Madness of King Goll - The Stolen Child To An Isle in the Water - Down by the Salley Gardens - The Meditation of the Old Fisherman - The Ballad of Father O'Hart - The Ballad of Moll Magee - The Ballad of the Foxhunter
EARLY POEMS II:
THE ROSE: To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time - Fergus and the Druid - The Death of Cuchulain The Rose of the World - The Rose of Peace - The Rose of Battle - A Faery Song - The Lake Isle of Innisfree - A Cradle Song - The Pity of Love - The Sorrow of Love - When You Are Old - The White Birds - A Dream of Death - A Dream of a Blessed Spirit - The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland - The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists - The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner - The Ballad of Father Gilligan - The Two Trees To Ireland in the Coming Times
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS: The Hosting of the Sidhe - The Everlasting Voices - The Moods - The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart - The Host of the Air - The Fisherman - A Cradle Song - Into the Twilight - The Song of Wandering Aengus - The Song of the Old Mother - The Fiddler of Dooney - The Heart of the Woman - The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love - He Mourns for the Change that Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved and Longs for the End of the World - He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace - He Reproves the Curlew - He Remembers Forgotten Beauty - A Poet to His Beloved - He GivesHis Beloved Certain Rhymes - To My Heart Bidding It Have No Fear - The Cap and Bells - The Valley of the Black Pig - The Lover Asks Forgiveness -Because of His Many Moods - He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers - He Tells of the Perfect Beauty- He Hears the Cry of the Sedge - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved - The Blessed - The Secret Rose - The Lover Mourns Because of His Wanderings - The Travail of Passion - The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends - A Lover Speaks to Hearers of His Songs in Coming Days - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers - He Wishes His Beloved were Dead - He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven
IN THE SEVEN WOODS:
In the Seven Woods - The Arrow - The Folly of Being Comforted - Old Memory - Never Give All the Heart - The Withering of the Boughs - Adam's Curse - Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water - Upon the Moon - Chorus for a Play - The Players Ask for a Blessing of the Psalteries and Themselves - The Happy Townland
THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE:
The Old Age of Queen Maeve
BAILE AND AILLINN:
Baile and Aillinn
THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS:
His Dream -A Woman Homer Sung - The Consolation - No Second Troy - Reconciliation - King and No King - Peace - Against Unworthy Praise - The Fascination of What's Difficult - A Drinking Song - The Coming of Wisdom with Time - On Hearing that the Students of Our University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation Against Immoral Literature - To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine - A Lyric from an Unpublished Play - Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation - At the Abbey Theatre - These Are the Clouds- At Galway Races - A Friend's Illness - All Things Can Tempt Me - The Young Man's Song
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Introductory Rhymes - The Grey Rock - The Two Kings - To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it Were Proved the People Wanted Pictures - September 1913 - To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing - Paudeen - To a Shade - When Helen Lived - The Attack on the "Playboy of the Western World", 1907 - The Three Beggars - The Three Hermits - Beggar to Beggar Cried - The Well and the Tree - Running to Paradise - The Hour Before Dawn - The Player Queen - The Realists I. The Witch II. The Peacock - The Mountain Tomb - To a Child Dancing in the Wind - A Memory of Youth - Fallen Majesty - Friends - The Cold Heaven - That the Night Come - An Appointment - The Magi - The Dolls - A Coat - Closing Rhymes