Collected Poems

Table of Contents

• From Crossways (1889)
  • The Song of the Happy Shepherd
  • The Indian Upon God
  • The Falling of the Leaves
  • Ephemera
  • The Madness of King Goll
  • Down by the Salley Gardens
  • The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
• From The Rose (1893)
  • To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time
  • The Rose of the World
  • The Rose of Battle
  • 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
  • To Some i Have Talked with by the Fire
• From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
  • The Host of the Air
  • Into the Twilight
  • The Song of Wandering Aengus
  • He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
  • He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
  • A Poet to His Beloved
  • The Valley of the Black Pig
  • The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods
  • He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
  • He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
  • The Blessed
  • The Travail of Passion
  • The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends
  • 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
• From In the Seven Woods (1904)
  • In the Seven Woods
  • Adam’s Curse
  • The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
  • O Do Not Love Too Long
  • The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves
• From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
  • No Second Troy
  • Reconciliation
  • Peace
  • The Coming of Wisdom with Time
  • The Mask
  • At the Abbey Theatre
  • A Friend’s Illness
  • Brown Penny
• From Responsibilities (1914)
  • The Grey Rock
  • On Those That Hated “The Playboy of the Western World”
  • A Song From “The Player Queen”
  • The Mountain Tomb
  • The Cold Heaven
  • That the Night Come
  • An Appointment
  • The Dolls
• From The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
  • An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
  • Men Improve with the Years
  • A Song
  • The Fisherman
  • The Hawk
  • His Phoenix
  • Broken Dreams
  • Presences
  • In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
  • The Phases of the Moon
  • The Cat and the Moon
  • The Saint and the Hunchback
  • The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
• From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
  • Michael Robartes and the Dancer
  • Solomon and the Witch
  • Sixteen Dead Men
  • The Leaders of the Crowd
  • Demon and Beast
  • The Second Coming
  • A Prayer for My Daughter
  • A Meditation in Time of War
• From The Tower (1928)
  • Meditations in Time of Civil War
  • Fragments
  • On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
  • Among School Children
  • The Fool by the Roadside
  • Owen Aherne and His Dancers
  • The Three Monuments
  • All Souls’ Night
• From The Winding Stair and Other Poems
  • In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
  • A Dialogue of Self and Soul
  • Spilt Milk
  • The Nineteenth Century and After
  • The Seven Sages
  • The Crazed Moon
  • For Anne Gregory
  • Swift’s Epitaph
  • Mohini Chatterjee
  • The Mother of God
  • Quarrel in Old Age
  • The Results of Thought
  • Remorse for Intemperate Speech
  • Stream and Sun at Glendalough
• From A Full Moon in March (1935)
  • Parnell’s Funeral
  • Alternative Song for the Severed Head in “The King of the Great Clock Tower”
  • Church and State
• From Last Poems (1936-1939)
  • Are You Content?
  • Beautiful Lofty Things
  • The Black Tower
  • Colonel Martin
  • A Crazed Girl
  • Crazy Jane on the Mountain
  • Cuchulain Comforted
  • The Curse of Cromwell
  • High Talk
  • Easter 1916
  • Imitated From the Japanese
  • The Lady’s Second Song
  • Long-Legged Fly
  • The Lover’s Song
  • The Man and the Echo
  • A Nativity
  • News for the Delphic Oracle
  • The Old Stone Cross
  • Parnell
  • Lapis Lazuli
  • Politics
  • Roger Casement
  • The Statues
  • The Statesman’s Holiday
  • A Stick of Incense
• Baile and Aillinn (1903)
• From The Shadowy Waters (1906)
  • The Harp of Aengus
• The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid (1923)