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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: YEATS, Matches Found: 490 Yeats, William Butler Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. 490 poems available by this author A COAT Poem Text First Line: I made my song a coat Last Line: In walking naked. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy A CRADLE SONG Poem Text First Line: The angels are stooping [or, bending] Last Line: When you have grown. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood A DEEP-SWORN VOW Poem Text First Line: Others because you did not keep Last Line: Suddenly I meet your face. Subject(s): Promises A DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL Poem Text First Line: I summon to the winding ancient stair Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy A DREAM OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Last Line: And heard the mournful breeze. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DREAM OF DEATH (VARIANT VERSION) Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Last Line: But now lies under boards. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DRINKING SONG Poem Text First Line: Wine comes in at the mouth Last Line: I look at you, and I sigh. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love A DRUNKEN MAN'S PRAISE OF SOBRIETY Poem Text First Line: Come swish around my petty punk Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID Poem Text Recitation First Line: We who are old, old and gay Last Line: If all were told. Subject(s): Fairies; Legends, Irish; Elves A FRIEND'S ILLNESS Poem Text First Line: Sickness brought me this Last Line: Against a soul? Subject(s): Friendship; Sickness; Illness A FULL MOON IN MARCH Poem Text First Line: What are we to do? What part do Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists A MEDITATION IN TIME OF WAR Poem Text First Line: For one throb of the artery Last Line: Mankind inanimate phantasy. Subject(s): War A MEMORY OF YOUTH Poem Text First Line: The moments passed as at a play Last Line: Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon. Subject(s): Youth A POET TO HIS BELOVED Poem Text First Line: I bring you with reverent hands Last Line: I bring you my passionate rhyme. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR MY SON Poem Text First Line: Bid a strong ghost stand at the head Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Poetry & Poets; Prayer A PRAYER ON GOING INTO MY HOUSE Poem Text First Line: God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage Last Line: Manacle his soul upon the red sea bottom. Subject(s): Blessings A SONG Poem Text First Line: I thought no more was needed / youth to prolong Last Line: That the heart grows old? Subject(s): Hearts; Aging A STICK OF INCENSE Poem Text First Line: Whence did all that fury come? Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS Poem Text First Line: She might, so noble from head Last Line: Drunk with the unmixed wine. Subject(s): Women; Beauty A WOMAN HOMER SUNG Poem Text First Line: If any man drew near Last Line: But an heroic dream. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Women A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 2. BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE Poem Text First Line: If I make the lashes dark A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: I admit the briar A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 1. FATHER AND CHILD Poem Text First Line: She hears me strike the board and say Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH Poem Text First Line: I did the dragon's will until you came Subject(s): Love; Mythology A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: What lively lad most pleasured me Subject(s): Love - Erotic ACRE OF GRASS First Line: Picture and book remain Last Line: Forgotten else by mankind, %an old man's eagle mind Subject(s): Old Age ADAM'S CURSE Poem Text First Line: We sat together at one summer's end Last Line: As weary-hearted as that hollow moon. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve AEDH THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED Poem Text First Line: Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair Last Line: Their children's children shall say they have lied. AFTER LONG SILENCE Poem Text First Line: Speech after long silence; it is right Last Line: We loved each other and were ignorant. Subject(s): Love; Silence AGAINST UNWORTHY PRAISE Poem Text First Line: O heart, be at peace, because Last Line: Half lion, half child, is at peace. Subject(s): Defamation; Peace ALL SOULS' NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tis all souls' night and the great christ church bell Last Line: As mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound. Subject(s): All Souls' Night; All Hallows Night ALL SOULS' NIGHT; EPILOGUE TO 'A VISION' First Line: Midnight has come, and the great christ church bell Last Line: Wound in mind's wandering %as mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME Poem Text First Line: All things can tempt me from this craft of verse Last Line: Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Temptation ALTERNATIVE SONG FOR THE SEVERED HEAD IN 'KING OF GREAT ...' First Line: Saddle and ride, I heard a man say Last Line: A slow low note and an iron bell AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN Poem Text Recitation First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision; Childhood; Fancy; Students AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Last Line: How can we know the dancer from the dance? Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision AN ACRE OF GRASS Poem Text First Line: Picture and book remain Subject(s): Old Age AN APPOINTMENT Poem Text First Line: Being out of heart with government Last Line: No government appointed him. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AN IMAGE FROM A PAST LIFE Poem Text First Line: Never until this night have I been stirred Last Line: Of the hovering thing night brought me. Subject(s): Youth; Past; Memory AN INDIAN SONG Poem Text First Line: O wanderer in the southern weather Last Line: A vapory footfall on the ocean's sleepy blaze. Subject(s): Nature AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH Poem Text Recitation First Line: I know that I shall meet my fate Last Line: In balance with this life, this death. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Freedom; Soldiers; War; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Liberty; First World War ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA Poem Text First Line: Send peace on all the lands and flickering corn Last Line: Troubles his sleeping; give him dreams of me. Subject(s): Jealousy ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL Poem Text First Line: This great purple butterfly Last Line: To take the roses for his meat. Subject(s): Wisdom; Learning; Fools APPARITIONS First Line: Because there is safety in derision Last Line: The worst a coat upon a coat-hangar ARE YOU CONTENT? Poem Text First Line: I call on those that call me son Subject(s): Old Age ARE YOU CONTENT? First Line: I call on those that call me son Last Line: But I am not content Subject(s): Old Age AT ALGECIRAS - A MEDITATION UPON DEATH First Line: The heron-billed pale cattle-birds Last Line: What can he question, what if questioned I %can with a fitting confidence reply AT GALWAY RACES (1) Poem Text First Line: There where the course is Last Line: That ride upon horses. Subject(s): Horse Racing AT GALWAY RACES (2) Poem Text First Line: Out yonder, where the race course is Subject(s): Horse Racing AT GALWAY RACES (2) First Line: Out yonder, where the race course is Last Line: And we find hearteners among men %that ride upon horses Subject(s): Horse Racing AT THE ABBEY THEATRE (IMITATED FROM RONSARD) Poem Text First Line: Dear craoibhin aoibhin, look into our case Last Line: But when they mock us, that we mock again? Variant Title(s): At The Abbey Theatre Subject(s): Abbey Theatre, Dublin AT THE GREY ROUND OF THE HILL Last Line: Stretch neck and clap the wing, %red cocks, and crow! AT THE HAWK'S WELL, SELS. BAILE AND AILLINN Poem Text First Line: I hardly hear the curlew cry Last Line: Like them that are no more alive. Subject(s): Death BEAUTIFUL LOFTY THINGS: O'LEARY'S NOBLE HEAD Last Line: All the olmpians; a thing never known again BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED Poem Text First Line: Time to put off the world and go somewhere Last Line: "the wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese." Subject(s): Begging & Beggars BLACK TOWER First Line: Say that the men of the old black tower Last Line: Old bones upon the mountain shake BLOOD AND THE MOON First Line: Blessed be this place Last Line: Can come upon the visage of the moon %when it has looked in glory from a cloud BROKEN DREAMS Poem Text First Line: There is grey in your hair Last Line: Vague memories, nothing but memories. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Love - Erotic; Memory BRONZE HEAD First Line: Here at right of the entrance this bronze head Last Line: And wondered what was left for massacre to save BROWN PENNY Poem Text Recitation First Line: I whispered, 'I am too young' Last Line: One cannot begin it too soon. Variant Title(s): The Young Man's Song Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth BYZANTIUM Poem Text Recitation First Line: The unpurged images of day recede Subject(s): Constantinople; Istambul; Byzantium BYZANTIUM First Line: The unpurged images of day recede Last Line: Fresh images beget, %that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea Subject(s): Constantinople CAT AND THE MOON First Line: The cat went here and there Last Line: And lifts to the changing moon %his changing eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing And Dancers; Moon CHAMBERMAID'S FIRST SONG First Line: How came this ranger Last Line: Pleasure made him %weak as a worm CHAMBERMAID'S SECOND SONG First Line: From pleasure of a bed Last Line: His spirit has fled %blind as a worm CHOICE First Line: The intellect of man is forced to choose Last Line: Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse CHURCH AND STATE Poem Text First Line: Here is fresh matter, poet, / matter for old age meet Subject(s): Government; Religion; Theology CHURCH AND STATE First Line: Here is fresh matter, poet, %matter for old age meet Last Line: Wine shall run thick to the end, %bread taste sour Subject(s): Government; Religion CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Last Line: In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) COLONEL MARTIN First Line: The colonel went out sailing Last Line: From the seaweed on the strand. %the colonel went out sailing COME GATHER ROUND ME, PARNELLITES Poem Text COME GATHER ROUND ME, PARNELLITES Last Line: And parnell loved his country, %and parnell loved his lass Subject(s): Freedom COOLE PARK AND BALLYLEE, 1931 First Line: Under my window-ledge the waters race Last Line: Though mounted in that saddle homer rode %where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood COOLE PARK, 1929 Poem Text First Line: I meditate upon a swallow's flight Last Line: A moment's memory to that laurelled head Subject(s): Coole, Ireland COOLE PARK, 1929 First Line: I meditate upon a swallow's flight Last Line: A moment's memory to that laurelled head Subject(s): Coole, Ireland CRAZED GIRL First Line: That crazed girl improvising her music Last Line: No common intelligible sound %but sang, 'o sea-starved, hungry sea' CRAZED MOON First Line: Crazed through much child-bearing Last Line: They are spread wide that each %may rend what comes in reach CRAZY JANE AND JACK THE JOURNEYMAN First Line: I know, although when looks meet Last Line: Passing on the road that night, %mine must walk when dead CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP First Line: Bring me to the blasted oak Last Line: But should that other come, I spit: %the solid man and the coxcomb CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS First Line: I found the ivory image there Last Line: Love is like the lion's tooth CRAZY JANE ON GOD First Line: That lover of a night Last Line: All things remain in god CRAZY JANE ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT First Line: Love is all %unsatisfied Last Line: That's certainly the case,' said he CRAZY JANE ON THE MOUNTAIN First Line: I am tired to cursing the bishop Last Line: And I cried tears down CRAZY JANE REPROVED First Line: I care not what the sailors say Last Line: A roaring, ranting journeyman. %fol de rol, fol de rol CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP Poem Text First Line: I met the bishop on the road Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women; Idiots CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP First Line: I met the bishop on the road Last Line: For nothing can be sole or whole %that has not been rent Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women CUCHULAIN COMFORTED Poem Text First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish CUCHULAIN COMFORTED First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man Last Line: They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish CUCHULAIN'S FIGHT WITH THE SEA Poem Text First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun Last Line: And fought with the invulnerable tide. Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish CURSE OF CROMWELL First Line: You ask what I have found, and far and wide I go Last Line: What is there left to say? DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO-PATRICK First Line: I, proclaiming that there is Last Line: Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming him Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers DEATH Poem Text First Line: Nor dread nor hope attend Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH First Line: Nor dread nor hope attend Last Line: He knows death to the bone - %man has created death Subject(s): Death DEATH OF CUCHULAIN First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun Last Line: For four days warred he with the bitter tide; %and the waves flowed above him, and he died Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (1) Poem Text First Line: There was a green branch hung with many a bell Last Line: And men who loved the cause that never dies. Subject(s): Irish Fiction DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (2) Poem Text First Line: There was a green branch hung with many a bell Last Line: On munster grass and connemara skies. Subject(s): Irish Fiction DEIRDRE Poem Text First Line: I have a story right, my wanderers Last Line: And letting no boy lover take the sway. Subject(s): Mythology - Irish DELPHIC ORACLE UPON PLOTINUS First Line: Behold the great plotinus swim Last Line: There stately pythagoras %and all the choir of love DEMON AND BEAST Poem Text First Line: For certain minutes at the least / that crafty demon and that loud beast Last Line: What had the caesars but their thrones? Subject(s): Demons DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL First Line: I summon to the winding ancient stair Last Line: We are blest by everything, %everything we look upon is blest Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet Last Line: But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. Variant Title(s): An Old Song Resung;the Salley Gardens Subject(s): Love; Youth DRUNKEN MAN'S PRAISE OF SOBRIETY First Line: Come swish around, my pretty punk Last Line: A drunkard is a dead man, %and all dead men are drunk EASTER 1916 Poem Text Recitation First Line: I have met them at close of day Last Line: A terrible beauty is born. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy EGO DOMINUS TUUS Poem Text First Line: On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Last Line: Would carry it away to blasphemous men. Subject(s): Past; Writing & Writers EPHEMERA Poem Text First Line: Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Last Line: "are love, and a continual farewell." Subject(s): Eternity FALLEN MAJESTY Poem Text First Line: Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face Last Line: Whereon a thing once walked that seemed a burning cloud. Subject(s): Royalty FATHER GILLIGAN Poem Text First Line: The old priest peter gilligan Last Line: "asleep upon a chair." Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Father Gilligan Subject(s): Clergy FERGUS AND THE DRUID Poem Text First Line: This whole day have I followed in the rocks Last Line: Lay hidden in the small slate-coloured thing! Subject(s): Druids FOOL BY THE WAYSIDE First Line: When all works that have Last Line: I think that I may find %a faithful love, a faithful love FOR ANNE GREGORY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Never shall a young man Subject(s): Hair; Love FOR ANNE GREGORY First Line: Never shall a young man Last Line: Could love you for yourself alone %and not your yellow hair Subject(s): Hair; Love FRAGMENT First Line: Where got I that truth? Last Line: Out of dark night where lay %the crowns of nineveh FRAGMENT First Line: Locke sank into a swoon Last Line: God took the spinning-jenny %out of his side FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: Now must I these three praise Last Line: I shake from head to foot. Subject(s): Love - Erotic GIFT OF HARUN AL-RASHID First Line: Kusta ben luka is my name, I write Last Line: In the confusion of its night-dark folds, %can hear the armed man speak GIRL'S SONG First Line: I went out alone Last Line: Saw I an old man young %or young man old? GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS Poem Text First Line: What they undertook to do Subject(s): Religion; Theology GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS First Line: What they undertook to do Last Line: All things hang like a drop of dew %upon a blade of grass Subject(s): Religion GREAT DAY First Line: Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! Last Line: The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on Subject(s): Revolutions GREEN HAMLET; AN HEROIC FARCE First Line: What is that? I had thought that I saw Last Line: And the long-remembering harpers have matter for their song GYRES First Line: The gyres! The gyres! Old rocky face, look forth Last Line: The workman, noble and saint, and all things run %on that unfashionable gyre again HANRAHAN LAMENTS BECAUSE OF HIS WANDERINGS Poem Text First Line: O where is our mother of peace Last Line: Under her purple hood. HANRAHAN SPEAKS TO THE LOVERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS Poem Text First Line: O colleens, kneeling by your altar rails long hence Last Line: Amid the hovering, piteous, penitential throng.' HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES Poem Text First Line: Fasten your hair with a golden pin Last Line: Live but to light your passing feet. Variant Title(s): Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes Subject(s): Love HE HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE Poem Text First Line: I wander by the edge / of this desolate lake Last Line: Of your beloved in sleep. Variant Title(s): Aedh Hears The Cry Of The Sedge HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED Poem Text Recitation First Line: Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? Last Line: And lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest. Subject(s): Legends, Irish HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: When my arms wrap you round I press Last Line: Brood her high lonely mysteries. Variant Title(s): Michael Robartes Remembers Forgotten Beauty Subject(s): Love HE REPROVES THE CURLEW Poem Text First Line: O curlew, cry no more in the air Last Line: There is enough evil in the crying of wind. Variant Title(s): Hanrahan Reproves The Curlew HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs Last Line: Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away.' Subject(s): Women; Valleys HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes Last Line: Before the unlabouring stars and you. Variant Title(s): Aedh Tells Of The Perfect Beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Love HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF ... HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: I have drunk ale from the country of the young Last Line: Cry of his love with their pitiful cries. Variant Title(s): Mongan Thinks Of His Greatness Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths Last Line: Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Variant Title(s): Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love HER ANXIETY First Line: Earth in beauty dressed Last Line: Love is nearer death. %prove that I lie HER DREAM First Line: I dreamed as in my bed I lay Last Line: And after nailed upon the night %berenice's burning hair HER PRAISE Poem Text First Line: She is foremost of those that I would hear praise Last Line: Among the poor both old and young gave her praise. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love HERO, THE GIRL, AND THE FOOL First Line: I rage at my own image in the glass Last Line: I think that I may find %a faithful love, a faithful love HIGH TALK Poem Text First Line: Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. Subject(s): Men HIGH TALK First Line: Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. Last Line: Those great sea-horses bare their teeth and laugh at the dawn. Subject(s): Men HIS BARGAIN First Line: Who talks of plato's spindle Last Line: A bargain with that hair %and all the windings there HIS CONFIDENCE First Line: Undying love to buy Last Line: Love leaps upon its course HIS DREAM Poem Text First Line: I swayed upon the gaudy stern Last Line: By the sweet name of death. Subject(s): Dreams; Death HIS PHOENIX Poem Text First Line: There is a queen in china, or maybe it's in spain Last Line: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. Subject(s): Beauty; Youth HIS WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Were you but lying cold and dead Last Line: While lights were paling one by one. Variant Title(s): Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead Subject(s): Forgiveness; Death HOUND VOICE Poem Text First Line: Because we love bare hills and stunted trees Subject(s): Dogs; Voices; Relationships HOUND VOICE First Line: Because we love bare hills and stunted trees Last Line: Then cleaning out and bandaging of wounds, %and chants of victory amid the encircling hounds HOUR BEFORE DAWN (2) First Line: A one-legged, one-armed, one-eyed man Last Line: And gave god thanks that overhead %the clouds were brightening with the dawn I AM OF IRELAND Poem Text Recitation I AM OF IRELAND Last Line: And dance with me in ireland Subject(s): Ireland IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE First Line: A most astonishing thing - %seventy years have I lived Last Line: Seventy years man and boy, %and never have I danced for joy IN MEMORY OF ALFRED POLLEXFEN Poem Text First Line: Five and twenty years have gone Last Line: And with that cry I have raised my cry. Subject(s): Death IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ Poem Text First Line: The light of evening, lissadell Subject(s): Consolation; Gore-booth, Eva (1872-1926); Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Mourning; Bereavement IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ First Line: The light of evening, lissadell Last Line: Bid me strike a match and blow Subject(s): Consolation; Gore-booth, Eva (1872-1926); Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Mourning IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY Poem Text First Line: Now that we're almost settled in our house Last Line: Of that late death took all my heart for speech. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Gregory, Lady Isabella (1852-1932); Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Dead, The IN TARA'S HALLS First Line: A man I praise that once in tara's halls Last Line: Lay in the coffin, stopped his breath and died IN THE SEVEN WOODS Poem Text First Line: I have heard the pigeons of the seven woods Last Line: A cloudy quiver over parc-na-lee. Subject(s): Coole, Ireland INTO THE TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Outworn heart in a time outworn Last Line: And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn. Subject(s): Aging JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE Poem Text Recitation First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning; Desertion; Bereavement JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Last Line: What shall I do for pretty girls %now my old bawd is dead? Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning KING AND NO KING Poem Text First Line: Would it were anything but merely voice! Last Line: When neither soul nor body has been crossed. Subject(s): Courts & Couriers; Loss LADY'S FIRST SONG First Line: I turn round %like a dumb beast in a show Last Line: No better than a beast %upon all fours LADY'S SECOND SONG First Line: What sort of man is coming %to lie between your feet? Last Line: The lord have mercy on us LADY'S THIRD SONG First Line: When you and my truest lover meet Last Line: You, should hand explore a thigh, %all the labouring heavens sigh LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON) Poem Text Recitation First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON) First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Last Line: Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, %their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay Subject(s): Art And Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision LEDA AND THE SWAN Poem Text Recitation First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LET ALL THINGS PASS AWAY First Line: A rivery field spread out below LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION Poem Text First Line: When have I last looked on Last Line: I must endure the timid sun. Subject(s): Aging LONELY THE SEA-BIRD LIES AT HER REST Poem Text LONELY THE SEA-BIRD LIES AT HER REST Last Line: God has not appeared to the birds Subject(s): Birds LONG-LEGGED FLY Poem Text Recitation First Line: That civilization may not sink Subject(s): Civilization; Flies LONG-LEGGED FLY First Line: That civilization may not sink Last Line: Like a long-legged fly upon the stream %his mind moves upon silence Subject(s): Civilization; Flies LOVE'S LONELINESS First Line: Old fathers, great-grandfathers Last Line: Dread has followed longing, %and our hearts are torn LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS First Line: O women, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence Last Line: Amid the hovering, piteous, penitential throng LOVER'S SONG First Line: Bird sighs for the air Last Line: On mind, on nest, %on straining thighs LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Beloved, may your sleep be sound Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love LULLABY First Line: Beloved, may your sleep be sound Last Line: From the limbs of leda sank %but not from her protecting care Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW Poem Text Recitation First Line: Bolt and bar the shutter Subject(s): Men MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW First Line: Bolt and bar the shutter Last Line: And many-minded homer were %mad as the mist and snow Subject(s): Men MAID QUIET First Line: Where has maid quiet gone to Last Line: Now words that called up the lightning %are hurtling through my heart MAN AND THE ECHO First Line: In a cleft that's christened alt Last Line: A stricken rabbit is crying out, %and its cry distracts my thought MAN YOUNG AND OLD First Line: Though nurtured like the sailing moon Last Line: The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES Poem Text Recitation First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns Last Line: Consider most to magnify, or to bless, %but take our greatness with our bitterness? Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE Poem Text First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower Variant Title(s): My House Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower Last Line: To exalt a lonely mind, %befitting emblems of adversity Variant Title(s): My Hous Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE Poem Text First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board Last Line: Had waking wits; it seemed %juno's peacock screamed Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS Poem Text First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind Last Line: These stones remain their monument and mine Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR Poem Text First Line: An affable irregular, / a heavily built falstaffian man Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR First Line: An affable irregular, %a heavily built falstaffian man Last Line: And turn towards my chamber, caught %in the cold snows of a dream Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST Poem Text First Line: The bees build in the crevices Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST First Line: The bees build in the crevices Last Line: Come build in the empty house of the stare Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE Poem Text First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions; Masonic Societies MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Last Line: Suffice the ageing man as once the growing boy Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions MEMORY Poem Text First Line: One had a lovely face Last Line: Where the mountain hare has lain. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Imagination; Love; Vision; Fancy MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS Poem Text First Line: I am worn out with dreams Last Line: Among the streams. Subject(s): Aging; Men; Regret MERMAID First Line: A mermaid found a swimming lad Last Line: That even lovers drown MERU First Line: Civilisation is hooped together, brought Last Line: His glory and his monuments are gone. Variant Title(s): Supernatural Songs: 12. Mer MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER Poem Text First Line: Opinion is not worth a rush Last Line: She. They say such different things at school. Subject(s): Body, Human; Beauty; Women MICHAEL ROBARTES BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE Poem Text First Line: I hear the shadowy horses, their long manes a-shake Last Line: And hiding their tossing manes and their tumultuous feet. Variant Title(s): He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace Subject(s): Horses; Peace; Rest MODEL FOR THE LAUREATE First Line: On thrones from china to peru Last Line: Would keep his lover waiting, %keep his lover waiting? MOHINI CHATTERJEE First Line: I asked if I should pray Last Line: Or, as the great sages say, %men dance on deathless feet MOTHER OF GOD First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Last Line: Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones %and bids my hair stand up? Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED First Line: Around me the images of thirty years Last Line: Think where man's glory most begins and ends, %and say my glory was I had such friends Subject(s): Museums NATIVITY First Line: What woman hugs her infant there? Last Line: Why is the woman terror-struck? %can there be mercy in that look? NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART, FOR LOVE NEW FACES First Line: If you, that have grown old, were the first dead Last Line: Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, %the living seem more shadowy than they NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE Poem Text Recitation First Line: There all the golden codgers lay Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE First Line: There all the golden codgers lay Last Line: Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs %copulate in the foam Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN First Line: Many ingenious lovely things are gone Last Line: To whom the love-lorn lady kyteler brought %bronzed peacock feathers, red combs of her cocks NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER First Line: Though the great song return no more Last Line: The rattle of pebbles on the shore %under the receding wave NO SECOND TROY Poem Text First Line: Why should I blame her that she filled my days Last Line: Was there another troy for her to burn? Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Women O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG Poem Text First Line: Sweetheart, do not love too long: / I loved long and long Last Line: Like an old song. OIL AND BLOOD First Line: In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Last Line: Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet OLD MEMORY Poem Text First Line: O thought, fly to her when the end of day Last Line: That would be harsh for children that have strayed. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age OLD STONE CROSS First Line: A statesman is an easy man Last Line: Under the old stone cross OLD TOM AGAIN First Line: Things out of perfection sail Last Line: Winding-sheet and swaddling clothes ON A PICTURE OF A BLACK CENTAUR BY EDMUND DULAC First Line: Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood Last Line: Unwearied eyes upon those horrible green birds ON A POLITICAL PRISONER Poem Text First Line: She that but little patience knew Last Line: Cried out the hollows of the sea. Subject(s): Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Socialism; Ire;and; England ON BAILE'S STRAND Poem Text First Line: What a clever man you are though you are blind! Last Line: [they go out. Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM Poem Text First Line: I think it better that in times like these Last Line: Or an old man upon a winter's night. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY JOINED AGITATION .. Poem Text First Line: Where, where but here have pride and truth Last Line: Restraining reckless middle-age? Subject(s): Youth ON THOSE THAT HATED 'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD' Poem Text First Line: Once, when midnight smote the air Last Line: Staring upon his sinewy thigh. Subject(s): Synge, John Millington (1871-1909) ON WOMAN Poem Text First Line: May god be praised for woman / that gives up all her mind Last Line: That sheba led a dance. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Theology OWEN AHERNE AND HIS DANCERS First Line: A strange thing surely that my heart, when had come unsought Last Line: O let her choose a young man now and all for his wild sake PARNELL Poem Text First Line: Parnell came down the road, he said to a cheering man: Subject(s): Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891) PARNELL First Line: Parnell came down the road, he said to a cheering man: Last Line: Ireland shall get her freedom and you still break stone' Subject(s): Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891) PARNELL'S FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Under the great comedian's tomb the crowd Subject(s): Funerals; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Burials PARNELL'S FUNERAL First Line: Under the great comedian's tomb the crowd Last Line: Through jonathan swift's dark grove he passed, and there %plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his bl Subject(s): Funerals; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891) PAUDEEN Poem Text First Line: Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Last Line: A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. Subject(s): Equalioty; God PEACE Poem Text First Line: Ah, that time could touch a form Last Line: Came when time had touched her form. Subject(s): Peace PILGRIM First Line: I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk Last Line: For I can put the whole lot down, and all I have to say %is fol de rol de rolly o Subject(s): Pilgrims And Pilgrimages PLAYER QUEEN (AN UNFINISHED PLAY), SELS. POLITICS Poem Text Recitation First Line: How can I, that girl standing there Subject(s): Love; Politics & Government POLITICS First Line: How can I, that girl standing there Last Line: But o that I were young again %and held her in my arms Subject(s): Love; Politics PRAYER FOR MY SON First Line: Bid a strong ghost stand at the head Last Line: Protecting, till the danger past, %with human love Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Poetry And Poets; Prayer PRAYER FOR OLD AGE First Line: God guard me from those thought men think Last Line: That I may seem, though I die old, %a foolish, passionate man PRESENCES Poem Text First Line: This night has been so strange that it seemed Last Line: And one, it may be, a queen. Subject(s): Women; Fear; Dreams PURGATORY First Line: Half-door, hall door Last Line: The misery of the living and the remorse of the dead QUARREL IN OLD AGE First Line: Where had her sweetness gone Last Line: That shone before these eyes %targeted, trod like spring RECONCILIATION Poem Text First Line: Some may have blamed you that you took away Last Line: My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone. Subject(s): Despair; Reconciliation RED HANRAHAN'S SONG ABOUT IRELAND Poem Text First Line: The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over cummen strand Last Line: Is cathleen, the daughter of houlihan. Variant Title(s): The Song Of Red Hanrahan Subject(s): Ireland; Irish REMORSE FOR INTEMPERATE SPEECH First Line: I ranted to the knave and fool Last Line: I carry from my mother's womb %a fanatic heart REPRISALS Poem Text First Line: Some nineteen german planes, they say Subject(s): World War I; First World War REPRISALS First Line: Some nineteen german planes, they say Last Line: Then close your ears with dust and lie %among the other cheated dead Subject(s): World War I RESPONSIBILITIES: PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain Last Line: Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine. Subject(s): Books; Reading RESULTS OF THOUGHT First Line: Acquaintance; companion; %one dear brilliant woman Last Line: Hesitate or stay? %what heads shake or nod? ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES') Poem Text First Line: I say that roger casement / did what he had to do Last Line: That is in quick-lime laid Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Nationalism - Ireland; Treason And Traitors ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES') First Line: I say that roger casement %did what he had to do Last Line: Here died the o'rahilly. %r.I.P.' writ in blood. %how goes the weather? Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Nationalism - Ireland; Treason And Traitors RUNNING TO PARADISE Poem Text Recitation First Line: As I came over windy gap Last Line: And there the king is but as the beggar. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise SAILING TO BYZANTIUM Poem Text Recitation First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision SEPTEMBER 1913 Poem Text First Line: What need you, being come to sense Last Line: They're with o'leary in the grave. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'leary, John (1830-1907); Patriotism SEVEN SAGES First Line: My great-grandfather spoke to edmund burke in grattan's house Last Line: They understood that wisdom comes of beggary SHEPHERD AND GOATHERD Poem Text First Line: That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year Last Line: And children when they spring up shoulder-high. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Death SIXTEEN DEAD MEN Poem Text First Line: O but we talked at large before Last Line: That converse bone to bone? Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SOLOMON AND THE WITCH Poem Text First Line: And thus declared that arab lady Last Line: "o! Solomon! Let us try again." Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.) SOLOMON TO SHEBA Poem Text First Line: Sang solomon to sheba Last Line: "the world a narrow pound." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Solomon (10th Century B.c.) SPILT MILK First Line: We that have done and thought Last Line: Like milk spilt on a stone SPIRIT MEDIUM First Line: Poetry, music, I have loved, and yet Last Line: I bend my body to the spade %or grope with a dirty hand SPUR First Line: You think it terrible [or, horrible] that lust and rage Last Line: What else have I to spur me into song? STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY First Line: I lived among the great houses Last Line: Tall dames go walking in grass-green avalon Subject(s): Statesmen STATISTICS First Line: Those platonists are a curse,' he said Last Line: A diagram hung there instead, %more women born than men STATUES First Line: Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare? Last Line: The lineaments of a plummet-measured face STICK OF INCENSE First Line: Whence did all that fury come? Last Line: But liked the way his fingers smelt Subject(s): Bible; Religion STREAM AND SUN AT GLENDALOUGH First Line: Through intricate motions ran Last Line: What made me live like these that seem %self-born, born anew? SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBB AT THE TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN Poem Text First Line: Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night Subject(s): Old Age; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBH AT TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN First Line: Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night Last Line: I turn the pages of my holy book SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 10. CONJUNCTIONS Poem Text First Line: If jupiter and saturn meet, Subject(s): Religion; Theology SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 10. CONJUNCTIONS First Line: If jupiter and saturn meet Last Line: On breast of mars the goddess sighed SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE Poem Text First Line: All the stream that's roaring by Subject(s): Time SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE First Line: All the stream that's roaring by Last Line: From needle's eye still goad it on SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 12. MERU Poem Text First Line: Civilisation is hooped together, brought Subject(s): Civilization; Religion; Theology SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 2. RIBB DENOUNCES PATRICK Poem Text First Line: An abstract greek absurdity has crazed the man -- Subject(s): Supernatural; Religion; Theology SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 2. RIBH DENOUNCES PATRICK First Line: An abstract greek absurdity has crazed the man Last Line: And could beget or bear themselves could they but love as he SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBB IN ECSTASY Poem Text First Line: What matter that you understood no word! Subject(s): Happiness; Transience; Sex; Joy; Delight; Impermanence SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBH IN ECSTASY First Line: What matter that you understood no word! Last Line: Those amorous cries that out of quiet come %and must the common round of day resume SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE Poem Text First Line: There all the barrel-hoops are knit Last Line: There all the planets drop in the sun Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE First Line: There all the barrel-hoops are knit Last Line: There all the planets drop in the sun Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT Poem Text First Line: Why should I seek for love or study it? Last Line: How can she live till in her blood he live! Subject(s): Hate; Men SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT First Line: Why should I seek for love or study it? Last Line: How can she live till in her blood he live! Subject(s): Hate; Men SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 6. HE AND SHE Poem Text First Line: As the moon sidles up Subject(s): Soul SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 6. HE AND SHE First Line: As the moon sidles up Last Line: All creation shivers %with that sweet cry SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 7. WHAT MAGIC DRUM? Poem Text First Line: He holds him from desire, all but stops his breathing lest Subject(s): Desire SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 7. WHAT MAGIC DRUM? First Line: He holds him from desire, all but stops his breathing lest Last Line: What from the forest came? What beast has licked its young? SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 8. WHENCE HAD THEY COME Poem Text First Line: Eternity is passion, girl or boy Subject(s): Love - Erotic SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 8. WHENCE HAD THEY COME? First Line: Eternity is passion, girl or boy Last Line: When world-transforming charlemagne was conceived? SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 9. THE FOUR AGES OF MAN Poem Text First Line: He with body waged a fight, Subject(s): God SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 9. THE FOUR AGES OF MAN First Line: He with body waged a fight Last Line: Now his wars on god begin; %at stroke of midnight god shall win SWEET DANCER First Line: The girl goes dancing there Last Line: Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer! SWIFT'S EPITAPH Poem Text Recitation First Line: Swift has sailed into his rest Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SWIFT'S EPITAPH First Line: Swift has sailed into his rest Last Line: World-besotted traveller; he %served human liberty Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) SYMBOLS First Line: A storm-beaten old watch-tower Last Line: Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade, %beauty and fool together laid THAT THE NIGHT COME Poem Text First Line: She lived in storm and strife Last Line: That the night come. Subject(s): Death THE ARROW Poem Text First Line: I thought of your beauty, and this arrow Last Line: I could weep that the old is out of season. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire THE BALLAD OF FATHER O'HART Poem Text First Line: Good father o'hart / in penal days rode out Last Line: Who dig old customs up. Variant Title(s): The Priest Of Coloony Subject(s): Death THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Come round me, little childer Last Line: And pity moll magee. Subject(s): Misfortune; Poverty THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER Poem Text First Line: Now lay me in a cushioned chair Last Line: The hounds wail for the dead. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters THE BALLOON OF THE MIND Poem Text First Line: Hands, do what you're bid Last Line: Into its narrow shed. Subject(s): Mind THE BLESSED Poem Text First Line: Cumhal called out, bending his head Last Line: In twilights of dew and of fire.' Subject(s): Prayer; Blessings THE CAP AND BELLS Poem Text First Line: The jester walked in the garden Last Line: And the quiet of love in her feet. Subject(s): Supernatural THE CAT AND THE MOON Poem Text First Line: The cat went here and there Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing & Dancers; Moon THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION Poem Text First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES Poem Text First Line: What do you make so fair and bright? Last Line: "sudden and light." Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE COLD HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven Last Line: By the injustice of the skies for punishment? Subject(s): Death; Memory THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE Poem Text First Line: Would I could cast a sail on the water Last Line: Through the white thin bone of a hare. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME Poem Text First Line: Though leaves are many, the root is one Last Line: Now I may wither into the truth. Subject(s): Aging; Wisdom THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN Poem Text First Line: What can have made the grey hen flutter so? Last Line: The darkness. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE Poem Text First Line: All the heavy days are over Last Line: Flame on flame and wing on wing. Variant Title(s): A Dream Of A Blessed Spirit Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO-PATRICK Poem Text First Line: I, proclaiming that there is Last Line: Acclaiming, proclaming, declaiming him Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DAWN Poem Text First Line: I would be ignorant as the dawn Last Line: Ignorant and wanton as the dawn. Subject(s): Dawn; Ignorance THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN Poem Text First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish THE DOLLS Poem Text Recitation First Line: A doll in the doll-maker's house Last Line: It was an accident.' Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE DOUBLE VISION OF MICHAEL ROBARTES Poem Text First Line: On the grey rock of cashel Last Line: In cormac's ruined house. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death THE EVERLASTING VOICES Poem Text First Line: O sweet everlasting voices, be still Last Line: O sweet everlasting voices, be still. Subject(s): Voices THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES Poem Text First Line: Autumn is over the long leaves that love us Last Line: With a kiss and a tear on thy on thy drooping brow. Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell THE FASCINATION OF WHAT'S DIFFICULT THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When I play on my fiddle in dooney Last Line: And dance like a wave of the sea. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE FISH Poem Text First Line: Although you hide in the ebb and flow Last Line: And blame you with many bitter words. Variant Title(s): Breasal The Fisherman Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Although I can see him still Last Line: And passionate as the dawn.' Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED Poem Text Recitation First Line: One that is ever kind said yesterday Last Line: You'd know the folly of being comforted. Subject(s): Aging; Love THE GREAT DAY Poem Text First Line: Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! Subject(s): Revolutions THE GREY ROCK Poem Text First Line: Poets with whom I learned my trade Last Line: So that the wandering foot's content. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HAPPY TOWNLAND Poem Text First Line: There's many a strong farmer Last Line: That is the world's bane.' Variant Title(s): The Rider From The North Subject(s): Future; Towns THE HAWK Poem Text First Line: Call down the hawk from the air Last Line: A pretense of wit.' Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE HEART OF THE WOMAN Poem Text First Line: O what to me the little room Last Line: My breath is mized into his breath. Subject(s): Love; Women THE HOST OF THE AIR Poem Text First Line: O'driscoll drove with a song Last Line: And never was piping so gay. Variant Title(s): The Folk Of The Air Subject(s): Infidelity; Dreams THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE Poem Text First Line: The host is riding from knocknarea Last Line: And niamh calling away, come away. Subject(s): Legends, Irish THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN (1) Poem Text First Line: A cursing rogue with a merry face Last Line: The clouds were brightening with the dawn. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Begging & Beggars THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE Poem Text First Line: The island dreams under the dawn Last Line: With vapoury footsole among the water's drowsy blaze. Subject(s): Nature; Passion THE INDIAN UPON GOD Poem Text First Line: I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees Last Line: His languid tail above us, lit wth myriad spots of light. Subject(s): God; Hinduism; Religion; Theology THE ISLAND OF SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Fled foam underneath us and round us, a wandering and milky smoke Last Line: In a long iron sleep, as a fish in the water goes dumb as a stone. Subject(s): Sleep THE KING'S THRESHOLD Poem Text First Line: I welcome you that have the mastery Last Line: The end Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (1) Poem Text First Line: I had a chair at every hearth Last Line: And the fret lies on me. Subject(s): Old Age; Retirement THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (2) Poem Text First Line: Although I shelter from the rain Last Line: That has transfigured me. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Retirement; Work; Workers THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Because I bid her clean the pots for supper Last Line: The lonely of heart is withered away.') Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE LEADERS OF THE CROWD Poem Text First Line: They must to keep their certainty accuse Last Line: And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb. Subject(s): Trfuth THE LIVING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: I bade, because the wick and oil are spent Last Line: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS Poem Text First Line: If this importunate heart trouble your peace Last Line: The odorous twilight there. Variant Title(s): Michael Robartes Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods Subject(s): Moods; Forgiveness THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Pale brows, still hands and dim hair Last Line: She has gone weeping away. Variant Title(s): Aedh Laments The Loss Of Love Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIENDS FOR OLD FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: Though you are in your shining days Last Line: For all eyes but these eyes. Variant Title(s): The Poet Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends Subject(s): Friendship THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART Poem Text First Line: All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old Last Line: My heart. Variant Title(s): Aedh Tells Of The Rose In His Heart Subject(s): Roses; Dreams THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL Poem Text First Line: I sat on cushioned otter skin Last Line: Old. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Courts & Couriers; Music & Musicians THE MAGI Poem Text First Line: Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye Last Line: The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND Poem Text Recitation First Line: He stood among a crowd at drumahair Last Line: The man has found no comfort in the grave. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE MASK Poem Text First Line: Put off that mask of burning gold Last Line: In you, in me?' Variant Title(s): A Lyric From An Unpublished Play Subject(s): Masks THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN Poem Text First Line: You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play Last Line: When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE MOODS Poem Text First Line: Time drops in decay Last Line: Has fallen away? Subject(s): Time; Transcience THE MOTHER OF GOD Poem Text First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE MOUNTAIN TOMB Poem Text First Line: Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride Last Line: Our father rosicross sleeps in his tomb. Subject(s): Parties; Funerals; Death THE MOUNTAIN TOMB: 1. TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND Poem Text First Line: Dance there upon the shore Last Line: The monstrous crying of wind? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED Poem Text First Line: Around me the images of thirty years Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE Poem Text First Line: A certain poet in outlandish clothes Last Line: A murmur of soft words and meeting lips. Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Courts & Couriers THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER Poem Text First Line: I heard the old, old men say Last Line: Like the waters.' Subject(s): Imagination; Time; Vision; Fancy THE PEACOCK Poem Text First Line: What's riches to him Last Line: For the pride of his eye. Variant Title(s): The Peacock Subject(s): Pride; Contentment THE PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: What have I earned for all that work,' I said Last Line: After nine years, I sink my head abashed. Subject(s): Memory; Regret THE PHASES OF THE MOON Poem Text First Line: An old man cocked his ear upon a bridge Last Line: The light in the tower window was put out. Subject(s): Moon THE PILGRIM Poem Text First Line: I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims THE PITY OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: A pity beyond all telling Last Line: Threaten the head that I love. Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES Poem Text First Line: Hurry to bless the hands that play Last Line: But bless our hands that ebb away. Subject(s): Musical Instruments THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS Poem Text First Line: The powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Last Line: Whither her footsteps go. Variant Title(s): Aedh Pleads With The Elemental Powers Subject(s): Power THE RAGGED WOOD Poem Text First Line: O hurry where by water among the trees Last Line: No one has ever loved but you and I. Subject(s): Love THE REALISTS Poem Text First Line: Hope that you may understand! Last Line: With the dragons? Subject(s): Reality THE ROSE OF BATTLE Poem Text First Line: Rose of all roses, rose of all the world! Last Line: Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die. Variant Title(s): They Went Forth To The Battle Subject(s): War THE ROSE OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: If michael, leader of god's host Last Line: A peace of heaven with hell. Subject(s): Peace THE ROSE OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? Last Line: Before her wandering feet. Subject(s): Creation; Dreams; God THE ROSE TREE Poem Text Recitation First Line: O words are lightly spoken Last Line: "can make a right rose tree." Subject(s): Connolly, James (1868-1916); Flowers; Freedom; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916); Roses; Liberty THE SAD SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: There was a man whom sorrow named his friend Last Line: Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE SAINT AND THE HUNCHBACK Poem Text First Line: Stand up and lift your hand and bless Last Line: But most to alcibiades. Subject(s): Hunchbacks THE SCHOLARS Poem Text First Line: Bald heads forgetful of their sins Last Line: Did their catullus walk that way? Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars THE SECOND COMING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SECRET ROSE Poem Text First Line: Far off, most, secret, and inviolate rose Last Line: Far off, most secret, and inviolate rose? Subject(s): Guests; Secrets; Roses; Beauty THE SHADOWY WATERS: A DRAMATIC POEM Poem Text First Line: Has he not led us into these waste seas Last Line: That have had dreams for father, live in us. Subject(s): Legends, Celtic THE SHADOWY WATERS: INTRODUCTORY LINES Poem Text First Line: I walked among the seven woods of coole Last Line: September 1900 Subject(s): Coole, Ireland THE SHADOWY WATERS: THE HARP OF AENGUS Poem Text First Line: Edain came out of midhir's hill, and lay Last Line: But faithful lovers. Subject(s): Mythology – Irish THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: The woods of arcady are dead Last Line: Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. Subject(s): Language; Truth; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Last Line: And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold. Subject(s): Home; Mothers THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS Poem Text Recitation First Line: I went out to the hazel wood Last Line: The golden apples of the sun. Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Men; Supernatural; Vision; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves; Fancy THE SORROW OF LOVE (1) Poem Text Recitation First Line: The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves Last Line: Are shaken with earth's old and weary cry. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE SORROW OF LOVE (2) Poem Text First Line: The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves Last Line: No occasion to. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE SPUR Poem Text First Line: You think it is horrible that lust and rage Subject(s): Old Age; Lust; Anger THE STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: I lived among great houses Subject(s): Statesmen THE STOLEN CHILD Poem Text Recitation First Line: Where dips the rocky highland Last Line: From a world more full of weeping than he can understand. Subject(s): Fairies; Supernatural; Elves THE THREE BEGGARS Poem Text First Line: Though to my feather in the wet Last Line: If but I do not seem to care.' Subject(s): Begging & Beggars THE THREE HERMITS Poem Text First Line: Three old hermits took the air Last Line: Sang unnoticed like a bird. Subject(s): Hermits; Imagination; Mortality; Old Age; Vision; Fancy THE TOWER Poem Text First Line: What shall I do with this absurdity Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION Poem Text First Line: When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide Last Line: Lilies of death-pale hope, roses of passionate dream. Subject(s): Passion THE TWO KINGS Poem Text First Line: King eochaid came at sundown to a wood Last Line: And bade all welcome, being ignorant. Subject(s): Courts & Couriers THE TWO TREES Poem Text First Line: Beloved, gaze in thine own heart Last Line: Gaze no more in the bitter glass. Subject(s): Trees THE UNAPPEASABLE HOST Poem Text First Line: The danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold Last Line: Is comelier than candles at mother mary's feet. Variant Title(s): A Cradle Song Subject(s): Danae; God THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG Poem Text First Line: The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears Last Line: Master of the still stars and of the flaming door. Subject(s): War THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN Poem Text First Line: You who are bent, and bald, and blind Last Line: And dwell in the house of the fenians, be they in flames or at feast. Subject(s): Aging THE WHITE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! Last Line: The sea! Subject(s): Birds THE WICKED HAWTHORN TREE Poem Text First Line: O, but I saw a solemn sight Subject(s): Supernatural THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN Poem Text First Line: Because I am mad about women Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE Poem Text Recitation First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty Last Line: To find they have flown away? Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy THE WITCH Poem Text First Line: Toil and grow rich Last Line: With despair? Subject(s): Greed; Wealth THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS Poem Text First Line: I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds Last Line: The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams. Subject(s): Winter; Dreams THESE ARE THE CLOUDS ABOUT THE FALLEN SUN Poem Text Last Line: The majesty that shuts his burning eye. Subject(s): Clouds THOSE DANCING DAYS ARE GONE First Line: Come, let me sing into your ear Last Line: I carry the sun in a golden cup, %the moon in a silver bag THOSE IMAGES First Line: What if I bade you leave %the cavern of the mind? Last Line: Recognise the five %that make the muses sing THREE BUSHES First Line: Said lady once to lover, %'none can rely upon' Last Line: When they have plucked a rose there, %know where its roots began THREE MARCHING SONGS: 1 First Line: Remember all those renowned generations Last Line: And all that's finished, let it fade THREE MARCHING SONGS: 2 First Line: The soldier takes pride in saluting his captain Last Line: And no man knows what treads the grass THREE MARCHING SONGS: 3 First Line: Grandfather sang it under the gallows Last Line: Robbers had taken his old tambourine THREE MONUMENTS First Line: They hold their public meetings where Last Line: And pride bring in impurity: %the three old rascals laugh aloud THREE MOVEMENTS First Line: Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land Last Line: What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand? THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 1 First Line: The roaring tinker if you like Last Line: From mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 2 First Line: My name is henry middleton Last Line: From mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 3 First Line: Come gather round me, players all Last Line: From mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 1 First Line: Grandfather sang it under the gallows Last Line: Down to the tune of o'donnell abu THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 2 First Line: Justify all those renowned generations Last Line: Drown the dogs,' said the fierce young woman Variant Title(s): The Renowned Generation THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 3 First Line: The soldier takes pride in saluting his captain Last Line: Time I was buried,' the old, old man THREE THINGS First Line: O cruel death, give three things back Last Line: A bone wave-whitened and dried in the wind TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND: 2 Poem Text First Line: Has no one said those daring / kind eyes should be more learned? Last Line: And I speak a barbarous tongue. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING Poem Text Recitation First Line: Now all the truth is out Last Line: That is most difficult. Subject(s): Failure TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ... Poem Text First Line: You say, as I have often given tongue Last Line: But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A SHADE Poem Text First Line: If you have revisited the town, thin shade Last Line: Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. Subject(s): Ghosts; Ireland - Rebellions; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Supernatural TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-NO Poem Text First Line: Come play with me Last Line: And let you go. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Squirrels TO A WEALTHY MAN Poem Text First Line: You gave, but will not give again Last Line: But the right twigs for an eagle's nest! Subject(s): Museums; Wealth; Art Gallerys; Riches; Fortunes TO A YOUNG BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Dear fellow-artist, why so free / with every sort of company Last Line: With landor and with donne. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship - Selectivity TO A YOUNG GIRL Poem Text First Line: My dear, my dear, I know / more than another Last Line: And glittered in her eyes. TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Shy one, shy one Last Line: With her would I fly. Subject(s): Love TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1) Poem Text First Line: I, the poet william yeats Last Line: When all is ruin once again. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2) Poem Text First Line: I, the poet william yeats Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2) First Line: I, the poet william yeats Last Line: From fashion or an empty mind, %what referty built and stone designed Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO DOROTHY WELLESLEY First Line: Stretch towards the moonless midnight of the trees Last Line: The proud furies each with her touch on high TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR Poem Text First Line: Be you still, be you still, trembling heart Last Line: With the proud, majestical multitude. Variant Title(s): To My Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear Subject(s): Fear; Hearts TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES Poem Text First Line: Know, that I would accounted be Last Line: After the red-rose-bordered hem. Variant Title(s): Apologia Addressed To Ireland In The Coming Days Subject(s): Ireland; Irish TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE Poem Text First Line: While I wrought out these fitful danaan rhymes Last Line: Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet. Subject(s): Life; Conversation TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME Poem Text First Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days! Last Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days. Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Legends, Irish; Roses; Irish TOM AT CRUACHAN First Line: On cruachan's plain slept he Last Line: Mounted the mare of time, %'gat the foal of the world TOM O'ROUGHLEY Poem Text First Line: Though logic-choppers rule the town Last Line: "I'd dance a measure on his grave." Subject(s): Friendship TOM THE LUNATIC Poem Text First Line: Sand old tom the lunatic Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness TOM THE LUNATIC First Line: Sang old tom the lunatic Last Line: In all the vigour of its blood; %in that faith I live or die TOWARDS BREAK OF DAY Poem Text First Line: Was it the double of my dream Last Line: From mountain steep to steep. Subject(s): Dreams TOWER First Line: What shall I do with this absurdity Last Line: Or a bird's sleepy cry %among the deepening shades Subject(s): Imagination; Vision TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 1 First Line: I saw a staring virgin stand Last Line: Out of the fabulous darkness called TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2 Poem Text First Line: In pity for man's darkening thought Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2 First Line: In pity for man's darkening thought Last Line: Man's own resinous heart has fed Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1 Poem Text First Line: A speckled cat and a tame hare Last Line: My great responsibilities? Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2 Poem Text First Line: I slept on my three-legged stool by the fire Last Line: The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound. Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE'S SAKE: 1 First Line: My paistin finn is my sole desire Last Line: To-morrow night I will break down the door TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE'S SAKE: 2 First Line: I would that I were an old beggar Last Line: He rhyming alone in his bed UNDER BEN BULBEN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Swear by what the sages spoke Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy UNDER BEN BULBEN First Line: Swear by what the sages spoke Last Line: Horseman, pass by! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision UNDER SATURN Poem Text First Line: Do not because this day I have grown saturnine Last Line: November 1919 Subject(s): Home; Promises; Writing & Writers UNDER THE MOON Poem Text First Line: I have no happiness in dreaming of brycelinde Last Line: Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne. UNDER THE ROUND TOWER Poem Text First Line: Although I'd lie lapped up in linen Last Line: On great-grandfather's battered tomb.' Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Dreams UPON A DYING LADY Poem Text First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace Last Line: It is about to die. Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION Poem Text First Line: How should the world be luckier if this house Last Line: Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease? Variant Title(s): Upon A Threatened House Subject(s): Ireland – Rebellions VACILLATION First Line: Between extremities %man runs his course Last Line: So get you gone, von hugel, though with blessings on your head VACILLATION: 8 First Line: Must we part, von hugel, though much alike, for we Last Line: So get you gone, von hugel, though with blessings on your head VERONICA'S NAPKIN First Line: The heavenly circuit; berenice's hair Last Line: Some found a different pole, and where it stood %a pattern on a napkin dipped in blood VISION, SELS. First Line: At the birth of christ religious life becomes primary Last Line: The sphere, the unique intervenes VOICE First Line: One day I was walking over a bit of marshy ground Last Line: Happy, immortal wretch have a face like this WATERS OF THE BOYNE First Line: Merchant and scholar who have left me blood Last Line: James and his irish when the dutchman crossed WHAT THEN? First Line: His chosen comrades thought at school Last Line: But louder sang that ghost, 'what then?' WHAT WAS LOST Poem Text First Line: I sing what was lost and dread what was won Subject(s): War WHAT WAS LOST First Line: I sing what was lost and dread what was won Last Line: They always beat on the same small stone Subject(s): War WHEEL First Line: Through winter-time we call on spring Last Line: Nor know that what disturbs our blood %is but its longing for the tomb WHEN HELEN LIVED Poem Text First Line: We have cried in our despair / that men desert Last Line: A word and a jest. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical WHEN YOU ARE OLD Poem Text Recitation First Line: When you are old and grey and full of sleep Last Line: And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Helen: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Loss; Love; Memory; Old Age WHERE MY BOOKS GO Poem Text First Line: All the words that I utter Last Line: Storm-darken'd or starry bright. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WHILE I, FROM THAT RED-THROATED WHISPERER Poem Text First Line: While I, from that reed-throated whisperer Last Line: Are but a post the passing dogs defile. Subject(s): Fame WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? Poem Text First Line: Who will go drive with fergus now Last Line: And all dishevelled wandering stars. Subject(s): Youth; Fear WHY SHOULD NOT OLD MEN BE MAD? Last Line: Know why an old man should be mad WICKED HAWTHORN TREE First Line: O, but I saw a solemn sight Subject(s): Supernatural WILD OLD WICKED MAN First Line: Because I am mad about women Last Line: Daybreak and a candle-end Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion WISDOM First Line: The true faith discovered was %when painted panel, statuary Last Line: Considering what whild infancy %drove horror from his mother's breast WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 1. FATHER AND CHILD First Line: She hears me strike the board and say Last Line: That his hair is beautiful, %cold as the march wind his eyes Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 10. MEETING First Line: Hidden by old age awhile Last Line: Had found a sweeter word WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 11. FROM THE 'ANTIGONE' First Line: Overcome - o bitter sweetness Last Line: Descends into the loveless dust WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 2. BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE First Line: If I make the lashes dark Last Line: I'd have him love the thing that was %before the world was made WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION First Line: I admit the briar %entangled in my hair Last Line: What can they do but shun me %if empty night replies? WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH First Line: I did the dragon's will until you came Last Line: And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us Subject(s): Love; Mythology WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 5. CONSOLATION First Line: O but there is a wisdom %in what the sages said Last Line: But where the crime's committed %the crime can be forgot WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 6. CHOSEN First Line: The lot of love is chosen. I learnt that much Last Line: Where - wrote a learned astrologer - %the zodiac is changed into a sphere WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 7. PARTING First Line: Dear, I must be gone Last Line: I offer to love's play %my dark declivities WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 8. HER VISION IN THE WOOD First Line: Dry timber under that rich foliage Last Line: But my heart's victim and its torturer WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION First Line: What lively lad most pleasured me Last Line: There's not a bird of day that dare %extinquish that daylight Subject(s): Erotic Love WOMAN'S BEAUTY IS LIKE A WHITE FRAIL BIRD First Line: A woman's beauty is like a white Last Line: Dragged into being %this loveliness WORDS Poem Text First Line: I had this thought a while ago Last Line: And been content to live. Variant Title(s): The Consolation Subject(s): Language; Sympathy YOUNG MAN'S SONG First Line: She will change,' I cried Last Line: To my offended heart %until it pardon me YOUTH AND AGE First Line: Much did I rage when young Last Line: But now with flattering tongue %it speeds the parting guest |
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