Selected Poems

Selected Poems
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
When You Are Old
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Never Give All the Heart
Adam's Curse
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
Words
Peace
The Fascination of What's Difficult
Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
These Are the Clouds
At Galway Races
All Things Can Tempt Me
To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second
Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery
if it Were Proved the People Wanted Pictures
September 1913
When Helen Lived
Fallen Majesty
Friends
That the Night Come A Coat
While I, from That Reed-throated Whisperer...
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
To a Young Beauty
The Scholars
Her Praise
Broken Dreams
Ego Dominus Tuus
Easter, 1916
Sixteen Dead Men
The Rose Tree
On a Political Prisoner
The Second Coming
A Prayer for my Daughter
Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower
Meditations in Time of Civil War
I Ancestral Houses
II My House
III My Table
IV My Descendants
V The Road at My Door
VI The Stare's Nest by My Window
VII I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's
Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
Two Songs from a Play
Leda and the Swan
Among School Children
All Souls' Night
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
Coole Park, 1929
Coole and Ballylee, 1931
Byzantium
Crazy Jane and the Bishop Mad as the Mist and Snow
Father and Child
A Prayer for Old Age
Meru
The Gyres
Lapis Lazuli
An Acre of Grass
What Then?
Beautiful Lofty Things The Great Day Parnell
What Was Lost The Spur
The Old Stone Cross
The Municipal Gallery Revisited
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
Under Ben Bulben
The Statues
A Bronze Head
High Talk
Man and the Echo
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Note on the Text Notes
Extra Material Yeats's Life Editor's Note Select
Bibliography
Index of Titles and First Lines