Poems by William Butler Yeats

Parnell
Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors
The Balloon Of The Mind
Youth And Age
Statistics
The Nineteenth Century And After
The Chambermaid's Second Song
A Stick Of Incense
Three Movements
On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature
The Lover's Song
The Coming Of Wisdom With Time
A Meditation In Time Of War
The Spur
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine
Swift's Epitaph
A Man Young And Old: Iii. The Mermaid
The Witch
Tom At Cruachan
Memory
The Moods
To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No
A Drinking Song
Drinking Song
The Great Day
A Friend's Illness
On Those That Hated The 'Playboy Of The Western World,' 1907
On Those That Hated 'The Playboy Of The Western World'
Symbols
Old Tom Again
The Attack On ‘the Playboy Of The Western World,’ 1907
What Was Lost
To Be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee
The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love
A Thought From Propertius
A Deep-Sworn Vow
Owen Aherne And His Dancers
The Realists
He Reproves The Curlew
The Chambermaid's First Song
On Being Asked For A War Poem
Maid Quiet
The Lady's First Song
The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends
A Coat
The Pity Of Love
He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved
The Dancer At Cruachan And Cro-Patrick
The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water
To A Young Girl
Imitated From The Japanese
Where My Books Go
A Cradle Song
His Confidence
The Peacock
A Man Young And Old: V. The Empty Cup
The Wheel
A Poet To His Beloved
Her Anxiety
The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus
The Fish
Death
He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty
To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
When Helen Lived
After Long Silence
Veronica's Napkin
The Everlasting Voices
His Bargain
Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
The Choice
That The Night Come
A Man Young And Old: Ii. Human Dignity
Love's Loneliness
Consolation
Politics
The Falling Of The Leaves
O Do Not Love Too Long
To A Child Dancing In The Wind
The Fool By The Roadside
The New Faces
Peace
The Three Monuments
A Man Young And Old: Iv. The Death Of The Hare
Church And State
A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness
A Prayer For Old Age
Slim Adolescence That A Nymph Has Stripped,
Slim Adolescence That A Nymph Has Stripped
Another Song Of A Fool
The Lady's Third Song
To An Isle In The Water
Paudeen
Those Images
Love Song
The Valley Of The Black Pig
The Lover Speaks To The Hearers Of His Songs In Coming Days
The Valleys Of The Black Pig
The Magi
Two Years Later
The Heart Of The Woman
A Nativity
The Travail Of Passion
The Living Beauty
Quarrel In Old Age
The Scholars
Fallen Majesty
All Things Can Tempt Me
The Song Of The Old Mother
Remorse For Intemperate Speech
Who Goes With Fergus?
Lines Written In Dejection
Sweet Dancer
Down By The Salley Gardens
He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing
The Mask
A Dream Of Death
Aedh Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers
Stream And Sun At Glendalough
He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
Crazy Jane Reproved
A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety
Before The World Was Made
A First Confession
Parting
Young Man's Song
The Results Of Thought
Her Triumph
He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
The Sorrow Of Love
He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven
Men Improve With The Years
Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment
Never Give All The Heart
The Mountain Tomb
The Ragged Wood
A Man Young And Old: Viii. Summer And Spring
A Song
The Dawn
The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes
These Are The Clouds
The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart
No Second Troy
The Leaders Of The Crowd
For Anne Gregory
When You Are Old
The Countess Cathleen In Paradise
The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner
The Rose Of Peace
Brown Penny
Mad As The Mist And Snow
A Crazed Girl
The Mother Of God
The Hawk
From The 'Antigone'
Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation
Words
Presences
The Rose In The Deeps Of His Heart
Meeting
Tom O'Roughley
The Fascination Of What's Difficult
A Man Young And Old: Ix. The Secrets Of The Old
Reconciliation
A Woman Homer Sung
The Rose Tree
Old Memory
Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop
At Galway Races
A Man Young And Old: I. First Love
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
A Man Young And Old: Vi. His Memories
A Faery Song
Sixteen Dead Men
Responsibilities - Closing
To A Young Beauty
The Saint And The Hunchback
Faery Song
The Harp Of Aengus
Me Peacock
The Collar-Bone Of A Hare
Crazy Jane On The Mountain
The Crazed Moon
Lullaby
The Shadowy Waters: The Harp Of Aengus
The Rose Of The World
In The Seven Woods
The Folly Of Being Comforted
The Dolls
Tom The Lunatic
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
Wisdom
At The Abbey Theatre
The Unappeasable Host
He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved, And Longs For The End Of The World
The Lady's Second Song
At Algeciras - A Meditaton Upon Death
Leda And The Swan
The Player Queen
The Hosting Of The Sidhe
Three Things
A Man Young And Old: Vii. The Friends Of His Youth
The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman
Into The Twilight
Chosen
Form The Green Helmet And Other Poems
Beautiful Lofty Things
An Acre Of Grass
The Fiddler Of Dooney
King And No King
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire
Those Dancing Days Are Gone
The Spirit Medium
The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers
Solomon To Sheba
Mohini Chatterjee
To Dorothy Wellesley
Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers
A Man Young And Old: Xi. From Oedipus At Colonus
A Last Confession
Are You Content?
The Indian To His Love
What Then?
The Old Stone Cross
A Model For The Laureate
News For The Delphic Oracle
Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland
Friends
The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves
Under Saturn
The White Birds
Towards Break Of Day
On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac
Alternative Song For The Severd Head In "The King Of The Great Clock Tower"
The Apparitions
Her Praise
On A Political Prisoner
The Song Of Wandering Aengus
In Tara's Halls
High Talk
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
The Cat And The Moon
I Am Of Ireland
The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods
The Second Coming
Crazy Jane And The Bishop
Hound Voice
Long-Legged Fly
Responsibilities - Introduction
Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
Running To Paradise
Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune's Sake
The Wild Swans At Coole
To A Shade
The Gyres
A Prayer For My Son
The O'Rahilly
In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz
The Three Hermits
Ephemera
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
The Death of Cuchulain
The Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists
John Kinsella's Lament For Mr. Mary Moore
The Winding Stair And Other Poems
Under The Round Tower
The Dedication To A Book Of Stories
Two Songs Of A Fool
Two Songs From A Play
Under The Moon
The Black Tower
The Fisherman
The Indian Upon God
Cuchulain Comforted
A Memory Of Youth
A Statesman's Holiday
The Statesman's Holiday
On Woman
The Ghost Of Roger Casement
The Cap And Bells
Colonus' Praise
The Sad Shepherd
To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were
To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were Proved The People Wanted Pictures
In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen
The Pilgrim
A Bronze Head
The Ballad Of Father O'Hart
The Withering Of The Boughs
Sailing To Byzantium
Coole Park, 1929
The Seven Sages
The Two Trees
Her Vision In The Wood
The Statues
The Secret Rose
The Host Of The Air
The Blessed
Byzantium
To Songs Of A Fool
An Image From A Past Life
The Ballad Of The Foxhunter
Demon And Beast
The Curse Of Cromwell
The Ballad Of Father Gilligan
Broken Dreams
The Rose Of Battle
The Fairy Pendant
The People
Adam's Curse
Solomon And The Witch
To Ireland In The Coming Times
The Man And The Echo
The Ballad Of Moll Magee
The Stolen Child
Man And The Echo
His Phoenix
Fergus And The Druid
The Circus Animals' Desertion
The Happy Townland
From A Full Moon In March
Parnell's Funeral
The Shadowy Waters: Introductory Lines
Introductory Lines (The Shadowy Waters)
The Shadowy Waters
The Wild Old Wicked Man
A Lover's Quarrel Among The Fairies
The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland
The Song Of The Happy Shepherd
Michael Robartes And The Dancer
Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931
Lapis Lazuli
Colonel Martin
The Three Bushes
The Municipal Gallery Revisited
Easter, 1916
Blood And The Moon
The Three Beggars
Among School Children
Three Songs To The One Burden
The Madness Of King Goll
A Dialogue Of Self And Soul
The Winding Stair
Upon A Dying Lady
A Prayer For My Daughter
Under Ben Bulben
Three Marching Songs
Ego Dominus Tuus
Vacilliation
Three Songs To The Same Tune
All Souls' Night
In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory
Cuchulain's Fight With The Sea
The Hour Before Dawn
The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes
Anashuya And Vijaya
The Grey Rock
Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
Shepherd And Goatheard
Shepherd And Goatherd
A Man Young And Old
Supernatural Songs
The Phases Of The Moon
A Woman Young And Old
The Old Age Of Queen Maeve
Baile And Aillinn
The Gift Of Harun Al-Rashid
Meditations In Time Of Civil War
The Two Kings
The Wanderings Of Oisin: Book Ii
Words For Music Perhaps
The Tower
The Wanderings Of Oisin: Book Iii
The Wanderings Of Oisin: Book I
A Dramatic Poem
The Shadowy Waters: The Shadowy Waters
Narrative And Dramatic The Wanderings Of Oisin

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