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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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Poems found: 490

ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES')

SIXTEEN DEAD MEN

SOLOMON TO SHEBA

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT

THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE

THE DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO-PATRICK

THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN

THE FISH

THE GREY ROCK

THE HAWK

THE KING'S THRESHOLD

THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE

THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIENDS FOR OLD FRIENDS

THE MOTHER OF GOD

THE MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED

THE PILGRIM

THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES

THE SHADOWY WATERS: A DRAMATIC POEM

THE STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY

THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN

THE WICKED HAWTHORN TREE

THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN

TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND: 2

TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ...

TO A WEALTHY MAN

TO A YOUNG BEAUTY

TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2)

TOM O'ROUGHLEY

TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1

TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2

UPON A DYING LADY

WHAT WAS LOST

WHERE MY BOOKS GO

I AM OF IRELAND

NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART, FOR LOVE

THE FASCINATION OF WHAT'S DIFFICULT

A COAT

A CRADLE SONG

A DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL

A DREAM OF DEATH

A DRINKING SONG

A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID

A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER

A PRAYER FOR MY SON

A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION

ADAM'S CURSE

AFTER LONG SILENCE

ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME

AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN

AN ACRE OF GRASS

AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH

BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED

BROWN PENNY

BYZANTIUM

COOLE PARK, 1929

CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP

DEATH

DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS

EASTER 1916

FOR ANNE GREGORY

FRIENDS

HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES

HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED

HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY

HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN

IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ

INTO THE TWILIGHT

JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE

LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON)

LEDA AND THE SWAN

LONG-LEGGED FLY

LULLABY

MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST

MEMORY

NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE

NO SECOND TROY

ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM

ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY JOINED AGITATION ..

ON THOSE THAT HATED 'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD'

POLITICS

RED HANRAHAN'S SONG ABOUT IRELAND

RUNNING TO PARADISE

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

SOLOMON AND THE WITCH

SWIFT'S EPITAPH

THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER

THE CAP AND BELLS

THE CAT AND THE MOON

THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION

THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES

THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE

THE DOLLS

THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY

THE FISHERMAN

THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED

THE GREAT DAY

THE HEART OF THE WOMAN

THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE

THE INDIAN UPON GOD

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (1)

THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (2)

THE MAGI

THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND

THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN

THE MOUNTAIN TOMB: 1. TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND

THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER

THE PITY OF LOVE

THE RAGGED WOOD

THE ROSE OF PEACE

THE ROSE TREE

THE SAD SHEPHERD

THE SCHOLARS

THE SECOND COMING

THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER

THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS

THE SORROW OF LOVE (1)

THE SORROW OF LOVE (2)

THE STOLEN CHILD

THE THREE HERMITS

THE TOWER

THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION

THE TWO TREES

THE WHITE BIRDS

THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE

TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING

TO A SHADE

TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-NO

TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER

TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1)

TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR

TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES

TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME

TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2

UNDER BEN BULBEN

WHEN HELEN LIVED

WHEN YOU ARE OLD

HOUND VOICE

A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 2. BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE

A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION

A FRIEND'S ILLNESS

HE HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE

THE SPUR

A DRUNKEN MAN'S PRAISE OF SOBRIETY

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBB AT THE TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 2. RIBB DENOUNCES PATRICK

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBB IN ECSTASY

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 6. HE AND SHE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 7. WHAT MAGIC DRUM?

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 8. WHENCE HAD THEY COME

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 9. THE FOUR AGES OF MAN

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 10. CONJUNCTIONS

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 12. MERU

TOM THE LUNATIC

A FULL MOON IN MARCH

COME GATHER ROUND ME, PARNELLITES

LONELY THE SEA-BIRD LIES AT HER REST

A DREAM OF DEATH (VARIANT VERSION)

A MEDITATION IN TIME OF WAR

A MEMORY OF YOUTH

A POET TO HIS BELOVED

A STICK OF INCENSE

A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 1. FATHER AND CHILD

A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH

ALL SOULS' NIGHT

AN APPOINTMENT

AN INDIAN SONG

ARE YOU CONTENT?

AT GALWAY RACES (1)

AT GALWAY RACES (2)

BROKEN DREAMS

CHURCH AND STATE

CUCHULAIN COMFORTED

CUCHULAIN'S FIGHT WITH THE SEA

DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (1)

DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (2)

DEIRDRE

GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS

HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY

HER PRAISE

HIGH TALK

IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY

LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE

OLD MEMORY

ON BAILE'S STRAND

ON WOMAN

PARNELL

PARNELL'S FUNERAL

REPRISALS

RESPONSIBILITIES: PROLOGUE

SEPTEMBER 1913

THESE ARE THE CLOUDS ABOUT THE FALLEN SUN

WHILE I, FROM THAT RED-THROATED WHISPERER

A DEEP-SWORN VOW

A PRAYER ON GOING INTO MY HOUSE

A SONG

A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS

A WOMAN HOMER SUNG

AEDH THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED

AGAINST UNWORTHY PRAISE

AN IMAGE FROM A PAST LIFE

ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA

ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL

AT THE ABBEY THEATRE (IMITATED FROM RONSARD)

BAILE AND AILLINN

DEMON AND BEAST

EGO DOMINUS TUUS

EPHEMERA

FALLEN MAJESTY

FATHER GILLIGAN

FERGUS AND THE DRUID

HANRAHAN LAMENTS BECAUSE OF HIS WANDERINGS

HANRAHAN SPEAKS TO THE LOVERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS

HE REPROVES THE CURLEW

HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS

HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF ... HEAVEN

HIS DREAM

HIS PHOENIX

HIS WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD

IN MEMORY OF ALFRED POLLEXFEN

IN THE SEVEN WOODS

KING AND NO KING

MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS

MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER

MICHAEL ROBARTES BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE

O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG

ON A POLITICAL PRISONER

PAUDEEN

PEACE

PRESENCES

RECONCILIATION

SHEPHERD AND GOATHERD

THAT THE NIGHT COME

THE ARROW

THE BALLAD OF FATHER O'HART

THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE

THE BALLOON OF THE MIND

THE BLESSED

THE COLD HEAVEN

THE DAWN

THE DOUBLE VISION OF MICHAEL ROBARTES

THE EVERLASTING VOICES

THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES

THE HAPPY TOWNLAND

THE HOST OF THE AIR

THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN (1)

THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE

THE ISLAND OF SLEEP

THE LEADERS OF THE CROWD

THE LIVING BEAUTY

THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS

THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART

THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL

THE MASK

THE MOODS

THE MOUNTAIN TOMB

THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE

THE PEOPLE

THE PHASES OF THE MOON

THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS

THE REALISTS

THE WITCH

THE PEACOCK

THE ROSE OF BATTLE

THE ROSE OF THE WORLD

THE SAINT AND THE HUNCHBACK

THE SECRET ROSE

THE SHADOWY WATERS: INTRODUCTORY LINES

THE SHADOWY WATERS: THE HARP OF AENGUS

THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD

THE THREE BEGGARS

THE TWO KINGS

THE UNAPPEASABLE HOST

THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG

THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS

TO A YOUNG GIRL

TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE

TOWARDS BREAK OF DAY

UNDER SATURN

UNDER THE MOON

UNDER THE ROUND TOWER

UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION

WHO GOES WITH FERGUS?

WORDS

AT THE GREY ROUND OF THE HILL

BEAUTIFUL LOFTY THINGS: O'LEARY'S NOBLE HEAD

COME GATHER ROUND ME, PARNELLITES

I AM OF IRELAND

LONELY THE SEA-BIRD LIES AT HER REST

WHY SHOULD NOT OLD MEN BE MAD?

BRONZE HEAD

CRAZED GIRL

DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL

DRUNKEN MAN'S PRAISE OF SOBRIETY

MAN YOUNG AND OLD

MODEL FOR THE LAUREATE

NATIVITY

PRAYER FOR MY SON

PRAYER FOR OLD AGE

STICK OF INCENSE

VISION, SELS.

VOICE

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 1. FATHER AND CHILD

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 10. MEETING

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 11. FROM THE 'ANTIGONE'

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 2. BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 5. CONSOLATION

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 6. CHOSEN

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 7. PARTING

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 8. HER VISION IN THE WOOD

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION

WOMAN'S BEAUTY IS LIKE A WHITE FRAIL BIRD

ALL SOULS' NIGHT; EPILOGUE TO 'A VISION'

ALTERNATIVE SONG FOR THE SEVERED HEAD IN 'KING OF GREAT ...'

AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN

ACRE OF GRASS

ARE YOU CONTENT?

AT ALGECIRAS - A MEDITATION UPON DEATH

AT GALWAY RACES (2)

AT THE HAWK'S WELL, SELS.

BLOOD AND THE MOON

BYZANTIUM

CHURCH AND STATE

COLONEL MARTIN

COOLE PARK AND BALLYLEE, 1931

COOLE PARK, 1929

CRAZY JANE AND JACK THE JOURNEYMAN

CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP

CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS

CRAZY JANE ON GOD

CRAZY JANE ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

CRAZY JANE ON THE MOUNTAIN

CRAZY JANE REPROVED

CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP

CUCHULAIN COMFORTED

DEATH

FOR ANNE GREGORY

FRAGMENT

FRAGMENT

GIRL'S SONG

GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS

HER ANXIETY

HER DREAM

HIGH TALK

HIS BARGAIN

HIS CONFIDENCE

HOUND VOICE

IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE

IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ

IN TARA'S HALLS

JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE

LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON)

LEDA AND THE SWAN

LET ALL THINGS PASS AWAY

LONG-LEGGED FLY

LOVE'S LONELINESS

LULLABY

MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW

MAID QUIET

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE

MERU

MOHINI CHATTERJEE

NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN

OIL AND BLOOD

OLD TOM AGAIN

ON A PICTURE OF A BLACK CENTAUR BY EDMUND DULAC

OWEN AHERNE AND HIS DANCERS

PARNELL

PARNELL'S FUNERAL

POLITICS

PURGATORY

QUARREL IN OLD AGE

REMORSE FOR INTEMPERATE SPEECH

REPRISALS

ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES')

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

SPILT MILK

STATISTICS

STREAM AND SUN AT GLENDALOUGH

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBH AT TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 10. CONJUNCTIONS

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 2. RIBH DENOUNCES PATRICK

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBH IN ECSTASY

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 6. HE AND SHE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 7. WHAT MAGIC DRUM?

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 8. WHENCE HAD THEY COME?

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 9. THE FOUR AGES OF MAN

SWEET DANCER

SWIFT'S EPITAPH

SYMBOLS

APPARITIONS

BLACK TOWER

CAT AND THE MOON

CHAMBERMAID'S FIRST SONG

CHAMBERMAID'S SECOND SONG

CHOICE

CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION

CRAZED MOON

CURSE OF CROMWELL

DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO-PATRICK

DEATH OF CUCHULAIN

DELPHIC ORACLE UPON PLOTINUS

FOOL BY THE WAYSIDE

GIFT OF HARUN AL-RASHID

GREAT DAY

GREEN HAMLET; AN HEROIC FARCE

GYRES

HERO, THE GIRL, AND THE FOOL

HOUR BEFORE DAWN (2)

LADY'S FIRST SONG

LADY'S SECOND SONG

LADY'S THIRD SONG

LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS

LOVER'S SONG

MAN AND THE ECHO

MERMAID

MOTHER OF GOD

MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED

NEW FACES

NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER

OLD STONE CROSS

PILGRIM

PLAYER QUEEN (AN UNFINISHED PLAY), SELS.

RESULTS OF THOUGHT

SEVEN SAGES

SPIRIT MEDIUM

SPUR

STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY

STATUES

THREE BUSHES

THREE MONUMENTS

TOWER

WHEEL

WICKED HAWTHORN TREE

WILD OLD WICKED MAN

THOSE DANCING DAYS ARE GONE

THOSE IMAGES

THREE MARCHING SONGS: 1

THREE MARCHING SONGS: 2

THREE MARCHING SONGS: 3

THREE MOVEMENTS

THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 1

THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 2

THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 3

THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 1

THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 2

THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 3

THREE THINGS

TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2)

TO DOROTHY WELLESLEY

TOM AT CRUACHAN

TOM THE LUNATIC

TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 1

TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2

TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE'S SAKE: 1

TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE'S SAKE: 2

UNDER BEN BULBEN

VACILLATION

VACILLATION: 8

VERONICA'S NAPKIN

WATERS OF THE BOYNE

WHAT THEN?

WHAT WAS LOST

WISDOM

YOUNG MAN'S SONG

YOUTH AND AGE



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