INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Compiled by David Widger

YEATS

CONTENTS

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##  COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. 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
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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
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
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
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
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
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— |
      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
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
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
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
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
| 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
| 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 | 139
| 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