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The collected poems of W.B. Yeats.
LIBRA - Special PR5900 .A3 1959
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 480 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Definitive edition, with the author's final revisions.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, 1959.
- Contents:
- Lyrical
- Crossways (1889)
- 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
- The Rose (1893)
- To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
- Fergus And The Druid
- Cuchulain's Fight With The Sea
- 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
- The Countess Cathleen In Paradise
- Who Goes With Fergus?
- 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 Some I Have Talked With By The Fire
- To Ireland In The Coming Times
- The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
- 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 Fish
- The Unappeasable Host
- Into The Twilight
- The Song Of Wandering Aengus
- The Song Of The Old Mother
- 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 Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
- To His 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
- Maid Quiet.
- The Wind Among The Reeds (1899) (contd.)
- The Travail Of Passion
- The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends
- The Lover Speaks To The 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
- The Fiddler Of Dooney
- In the Seven Woods (1904)
- 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
- Under The Moon
- The Ragged Wood
- O Do Not Love Too Long
- The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves
- The Happy Townland
- from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
- His Dream
- A Woman Homer Sung
- Words
- 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 New Universary Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature
- To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine
- The Mask
- 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
- Brown Penny
- Responsibilities (1914)
- Pardon, Old Fathers
- The Grey Rock
- 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
- On Those That Hated 'The Playboy Of The Western World', 1907
- The Three Beggars
- The Three Hermits
- Beggar To Beggar Cried
- Running To Paradise
- The Hour Before Dawn
- A Son From 'The Player Queen'
- The Realists : The Witch ; The Peacock
- The Mountain Tomb : To A Child Dancing In The Wind ; Two Years Later
- A Memory Of Youth
- Fallen Majesty.
- Responsibilities (1914) (contd.)
- Friends
- The Cold Heaven
- That The Night Come
- An Appointment
- The Magi
- The Dolls
- A Coat
- While I, from That Reed-Throated Whisperer
- The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
- The Wild Swans At Coole
- In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
- Men Improve With The Years
- The Collar-Bone Of A Hare
- Under The Round Tower
- Solomon To Sheba
- The Living Beauty
- A Song
- To A Young Beauty
- To A Young Girl
- The Scholars
- Tom O'Roughley
- Shepherd And Goatherd
- Lines Written In Dejection
- The Dawn
- On Woman
- The Fisherman
- The Hawk
- Memory
- Her Praise
- The People
- His Phoenix
- A Thought From Propertius
- Broken Dreams
- A Deep-Sworn Vow
- Presences
- The Balloon Of The Mind
- To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No
- On Being Asked For A War Poem
- In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen
- Upon A Dying Lady : Her Courtesy ; Certain Artists Bring Her Dolls And Drawings ; She Turns The Dolls' Faces To The Wall ; The End Of Day ; Her Race ; Her Courage ; Her Friends Bring Her A Christmas Tree
- Ego Dominus Tuus
- A Prayer On Coming Into My House
- The Phases Of The Moon
- The Cat And The Moon
- The Saint And The Hunchback
- Two Songs Of A Fool
- Another Song Of A Fool
- The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
- Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
- Michael Robartes And The Dancer
- Solomon And The Witch
- An Image From A Past Life
- Under Saturn
- Easter 1916
- Sixteen Dead Men
- The Rose Tree
- On A Political Prisoner
- The Leaders Of The Crowd
- Towards Break Of Day
- Demon And Beast
- The Second Coming
- A Prayer For My Daughter
- A Meditation In Time Of War
- To Be Carved On A Stone At Thor Ballylee
- The Tower (1928)
- Sailing To Byzantium
- The Tower
- Meditations In Time Of Civil War : Ancestral Houses ; My House ; My Table.
- The Tower (1928) (contd.)
- My Descendants ; The Road At My Door ; The Stare's Nest By My Window ; I See Phantoms Of Hatred And Of The Heart's Fullness And Of The Coming Emptiness
- Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
- The Wheel
- Youth And Age
- The New Faces
- A Prayer For My Son
- Two Songs From A Play
- Fragments
- Leda And The Swan
- On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac
- Among School Children
- Colonus' Praise
- Wisdom
- The Hero, The Girl And The Fool
- Owen Aherne And His Dancers
- A Man Young And Old : First Love ; Human Dignity ; The Mermaid ; The Death Of The Hare ; The Empty Cup ; His Memories ; The Friends Of His Youth ; Summer And Spring ; The Secrets Of The Old ; His Wildness ; From 'Oedipus At Colonus'
- The Three Monuments
- All Souls' Night
- The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
- In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz
- Death
- A Dialogue Of Self And Soul
- Blood And The Moon
- Oil And Blood
- Veronica's Napkin
- Symbols
- Spilt Milk
- The Nineteenth Century And After
- Statistics
- Three Movements
- The Seven Sages
- The Crazed Moon
- Coole Park, 1929
- Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
- For Anne Gregory
- Swift's Epitaph
- At Algeciras: A Meditation Upon Death
- The Choice
- Mohini Chatterjee
- Byzantium
- The Mother Of God
- Vacillation
- Quarrel In Old Age
- The Results Of Thought
- Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors
- Remorse For Intemperate Speech
- Stream And Sun At Glendalough
- Words For Music Perhaps : Crazy Jane And The Bishop ; Crazy Jane Reproved ; Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment ; Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman ; Crazy Jane On God ; Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop ; Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers ; Girl's Song ; Young Man's Song ; Her Anxiety ; His Confidence ; Love's Loneliness ; Her Dream ; His Bargain ; Three Things ; Lullaby.
- Words For Music Perhaps (contd.)
- After Long Silence ; Mad As The Mist And Snow ; Those Dancing Days Are Gone ; 'I Am Of Ireland' ; The Dancer At Cruachan And Cro-Patrick ; Tom The Lunatic ; Tom At Cruachan ; Old Tom Again ; The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus
- A Woman Young and Old : Father And Child ; Before The World Was Made ; A First Confession ; Her Triumph ; Consolation ; Chosen ; Parting ; Her Vision In The Wood ; A Last Confession ; Meeting ; From the 'Antigone'
- From A Full Moon In March (1935)
- Parnell's Funeral
- Three Songs To The Same Tune
- Alternative Song For The Severed Head In 'The King Of The Great Clock Tower'
- Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune's Sake
- A Prayer For Old Age
- Church And State
- Supernatural Songs : Ribh At The Tomb Of Baile And Aillinn ; Ribh Denounces Patrick ; Ribh In Ecstasy ; There ; Ribh Considers Christian Love Insufficient ; He and She ; What Magic Drum? ; Whence Had They Come? ; The Four Ages Of Man ; Conjunctions ; A Needle's Eye ; Meru
- Last Poems (1936-1939)
- The Gyres
- Lapis Lazuli
- Imitated From The Japanese
- Sweet Dancer
- The Three Bushes
- The Lady's First Song
- The Lady's Second Song
- The Lady's Third Song
- The Lover's Song
- The Chambermaid's First Song
- The Chambermaid's Second Song
- An Acre Of Grass
- What Then?
- Beautiful Lofty Things
- A Crazed Girl
- To Dorothy Wellesley
- The Curse Of Cromwell
- Roger Casement
- The Ghost Of Roger Casement
- The O'Rahilly
- Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
- The Wild Old Wicked Man
- The Great Day
- Parnell
- What Was Lost
- The Spur
- A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety
- The Pilgrim
- Colonel Martin
- A Model For The Laureate
- The Old Stone Cross
- The Spirit Medium
- Those Images
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited
- Are You Content?
- Three Songs To The One Burden.
- Last Poems (1936-1936) (contd.)
- In Tara's Halls
- The Statues
- News For The Delphic Oracle
- Three Marching Songs
- Long-Legged Fly
- A Bronze Head
- A Stick Of Incense
- John Kinsella's Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore
- Hound Voice
- High Talk
- The Apparitions
- A Nativity
- Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
- The Statesman's Holiday
- Crazy Jane On The Mountain
- The Circus Animals' Desertion
- Politics
- The Man And The Echo
- Cuchulain Comforted
- The Black Tower
- Under Ben Bulben
- Narrative And Dramatic
- The Wanderings Of Oisin (1889)
- The Old Age Of Queen Maeve (1903)
- Baile And Aillinn (1903)
- The Shadowy Waters (1906) : Introductory Lines ; The Harp of Aengus ; The Shadowy Waters
- The Two Kings (1914)
- The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid (1923).
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- OCLC:
- 30884845
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