The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

by Finneran, Richard J.; Yeats, William Butler

• ISBN13: 9780684839356
• ISBN10: 0684839350
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Scribner

Summary

The lateRichard J. Finneranwas general editor, with George Mills Harper, ofThe Collected Works of W. B. Yeatsfor many years; series editor ofThe Poemsin the Cornell Yeats; and editor ofYeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies,among other works. He held the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; was a past president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; and served as executive director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

Author Biography

The late Richard J. Finneran was general editor, with George Mills Harper, of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats for many years; series editor of The Poems in the Cornell Yeats; and editor of Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, among other works. He held the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; was a past president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; and served as executive director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxv
PART ONE Lyrical	5	(454)
CROSSWAYS (1889)	5	(22)
1 The Song of the Happy Shepherd	5	(1)
2 The Sad Shepherd	6	(1)
3 The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes	7	(1)
4 Anashuya and Vijaya	8	(3)
5 The Indian upon God	11	(1)
6 The Indian to his Love	12	(1)
7 The Falling of the Leaves	12	(1)
8 Ephemera	13	(1)
9 The Madness of King Goll	14	(2)
10 The Stolen Child	16	(2)
11 To an Isle in the Water	18	(1)
12 Down by the Salley Gardens	18	(1)
13 The Meditation of the Old Fisherman	19	(1)
14 The Ballad of Father O'Hart	19	(2)
15 The Ballad of Moll Magee	21	(2)
16 The Ballad of the Foxhunter	23	(4)
THE ROSE (1893)	27	(24)
17 To the Rose upon the Rood of Time	27	(1)
18 Fergus and the Druid	28	(1)
19 Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea	29	(3)
20 The Rose of the World	32	(1)
21 The Rose of Peace	32	(1)
22 The Rose of Battle	33	(1)
23 A Faery Song	34	(1)
24 The Lake Isle of Innisfree	35	(1)
25 A Cradle Song	35	(1)
26 The Pity of Love	36	(1)
27 The Sorrow of Love	36	(1)
28 When You are Old	37	(1)
29 The White Birds	37	(1)
30 A Dream of Death	38	(1)
31 The Countess Cathleen in Paradise	38	(1)
32 Who goes with Fergus?	39	(1)
33 The Man who dreamed of Faeryland	39	(2)
34 The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists	41	(1)
35 The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner	42	(1)
36 The Ballad of Father Gilligan	42	(2)
37 The Two Trees	44	(1)
38 To Some I have Talked with by the Fire	45	(1)
39 To Ireland in the Coming Times	46	(5)
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS (1899)	51	(24)
40 The Hosting of the Sidhe	51	(1)
41 The Everlasting Voices	51	(1)
42 The Moods	52	(1)
43 The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart	52	(1)
44 The Host of the Air	52	(2)
45 The Fish	54	(1)
46 The Unappeasable Host	54	(1)
47 Into the Twilight	55	(1)
48 The Song of Wandering Aengus	55	(1)
49 The Song of the Old Mother	56	(1)
50 The Heart of the Woman	57	(1)
51 The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love	57	(1)
52 He mourns for the Change that has come upon Him and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World	58	(1)
53 He bids his Beloved be at Peace	58	(1)
54 He reproves the Curlew	59	(1)
55 He remembers forgotten Beauty	59	(1)
56 A Poet to his Beloved	60	(1)
57 He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes	60	(1)
58 To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear	60	(1)
59 The Cap and Bells	61	(1)
60 The Valley of the Black Pig	62	(1)
61 The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods	62	(1)
62 He tells of a Valley full of Lovers	63	(1)
63 He tells of the Perfect Beauty	64	(1)
64 He hears the Cry of the Sedge	64	(1)
65 He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved	64	(1)
66 The Blessed	65	(1)
67 The Secret Rose	66	(1)
68 Maid Quiet	67	(1)
69 The Travail of Passion	68	(1)
70 The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends	68	(1)
71 The Lover speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in Coming Days	68	(1)
72 The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers	69	(1)
73 He wishes his Beloved were Dead	69	(1)
74 He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	70	(1)
75 He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven	70	(1)
76 The Fiddler of Dooney	71	(4)
IN THE SEVEN WOODS (1904)	75	(12)
77 In the Seven Woods	75	(1)
78 The Arrow	75	(1)
79 The Folly of being Comforted	76	(1)
80 Old Memory	76	(1)
81 Never give all the Heart	77	(1)
82 The Withering of the Boughs	77	(1)
83 Adam's Curse	78	(1)
84 Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland	79	(1)
85 The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water	80	(1)
86 Under the Moon	80	(1)
87 The Ragged Wood	81	(1)
88 O do not Love Too Long	82	(1)
89 The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves	82	(1)
90 The Happy Townland	83	(4)
THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS (1910)	87	(14)
91 His Dream	87	(1)
92 A Woman Homer sung	88	(1)
93 Words	88	(1)
94 No Second Troy	89	(1)
95 Reconciliation	90	(1)
96 King and no King	90	(1)
97 Peace	91	(1)
98 Against Unworthy Praise	91	(1)
99 The Fascination of What's Difficult	92	(1)
100 A Drinking Song	92	(1)
101 The Coming of Wisdom with Time	93	(1)
102 On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature	93	(1)
103 To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine	93	(1)
104 The Mask	94	(1)
105 Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation	94	(1)
106 At the Abbey Theatre	95	(1)
107 These are the Clouds	95	(1)
108 At Galway Races	96	(1)
109 A Friend's Illness	96	(1)
110 All Things can tempt Me	97	(1)
111 Brown Penny	97	(4)
RESPONSIBILITIES (1914)	101	(30)
112 Introductory Rhymes	101	(1)
113 The Grey Rock	102	(4)
114 To a Wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures	106	(1)
115 September 1913	107	(1)
116 To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing	108	(1)
117 Paudeen	108	(1)
118 To a Shade	109	(1)
119 When Helen lived	110	(1)
120 On Those that hated `The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907	110	(1)
121 The Three Beggars	110	(2)
122 The Three Hermits	112	(1)
123 Beggar to Beggar cried	113	(1)
124 Running to Paradise	114	(1)
125 The Hour before Dawn	115	(4)
126 A Song from `The Player Queen'	119	(1)
127 The Realists	119	(1)
128 I. The Witch	120	(1)
129 II. The Peacock	120	(1)
130 The Mountain Tomb	120	(1)
131 I. To a Child dancing in the Wind	121	(1)
132 II. Two Years Later	121	(1)
133 A Memory of Youth	122	(1)
134 Fallen Majesty	123	(1)
135 Friends	123	(1)
136 The Cold Heaven	124	(1)
137 That the Night come	124	(1)
138 An Appointment	125	(1)
139 The Magi	125	(1)
140 The Dolls	126	(1)
141 A Coat	127	(1)
142 Closing Rhyme	127	(4)
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE (1919)	131	(46)
143 The Wild Swans at Coole	131	(1)
144 In Memory of Major Robert Gregory	132	(3)
145 An Irish Airman foresees his Death	135	(1)
146 Men improve with the Years	136	(1)
147 The Collar-bone of a Hare	136	(1)
148 Under the Round Tower	137	(1)
149 Solomon to Sheba	138	(1)
150 The Living Beauty	139	(1)
151 A Song	139	(1)
152 To a Young Beauty	140	(1)
153 To a Young Girl	140	(1)
154 The Scholars	141	(1)
155 Tom O'Roughley	141	(1)
156 Shepherd and Goatherd	142	(4)
157 Lines written in Dejection	146	(1)
158 The Dawn	146	(1)
159 On Woman	147	(1)
160 The Fisherman	148	(1)
161 The Hawk	149	(1)
162 Memory	150	(1)
163 Her Praise	150	(1)
164 The People	151	(1)
165 His Phoenix	152	(1)
166 A Thought from Propertius	153	(1)
167 Broken Dreams	153	(1)
168 A Deep-sworn Vow	154	(1)
169 Presences	155	(1)
170 The Balloon of the Mind	155	(1)
171 To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no	156	(1)
172 On being asked for a War Poem	156	(1)
173 In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen	156	(2)
Upon a Dying Lady:	158	(19)
174 I. Her Courtesy	158	(1)
175 II. Certain Artists bring her Dolls and Drawings	158	(1)
176 III. She turns the Dolls' Faces to the Wall	159	(1)
177 IV. The End of Day	159	(1)
178 V. Her Race	160	(1)
179 VI. Her Courage	160	(1)
180 VII. Her Friends bring her a Christmas Tree	161	(1)
181 Ego Dominus Tuus	161	(3)
182 A Prayer on going into my House	164	(1)
183 The Phases of the Moon	164	(5)
184 The Cat and the Moon	169	(1)
185 The Saint and the Hunchback	170	(1)
186 Two Songs of a Fool	170	(1)
187 Another Song of a Fool	171	(1)
188 The Double Vision of Michael Robartes	172	(5)
MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER (1921)	177	(20)
189 Michael Robartes and the Dancer	177	(2)
190 Solomon and the Witch	179	(1)
191 An Image from a Past Life	180	(1)
192 Under Saturn	181	(1)
193 Easter, 1916	182	(2)
194 Sixteen Dead Men	184	(1)
195 The Rose Tree	185	(1)
196 On a Political Prisoner	186	(1)
197 The Leaders of the Crowd	186	(1)
198 Towards Break of Day	187	(1)
199 Demon and Beast	188	(1)
200 The Second Coming	189	(1)
201 A Prayer for my Daughter	190	(2)
202 A Meditation in Time of War	192	(1)
203 To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee	193	(4)
THE TOWER (1928)	197	(40)
204 Sailing to Byzantium	197	(1)
205 The Tower	198	(6)
Meditations in Time of Civil War:	204	(21)
206 I. Ancestral Houses	204	(1)
207 II. My House	205	(1)
208 III. My Table	206	(1)
209 IV. My Descendants	207	(1)
210 V. The Road at My Door	208	(1)
211 VI. The Stare's Nest by My Window	208	(1)
212 VII. I see Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness	209	(1)
213 Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	210	(4)
214 The Wheel	214	(1)
215 Youth and Age	215	(1)
216 The New Faces	215	(1)
217 A Prayer for my Son	215	(1)
218 Two Songs from a Play	216	(1)
219 Fragments	217	(1)
220 Leda and the Swan	218	(1)
221 On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac	219	(1)
222 Among School Children	219	(3)
223 Colonus' Praise	222	(1)
224 Wisdom	223	(1)
225 The Fool by the Roadside	223	(1)
226 Owen Aherne and his Dancers	224	(1)
A Man Young and Old:	225	(12)
227 I. First Love	225	(1)
228 II. Human Dignity	226	(1)
229 III. The Mermaid	226	(1)
230 IV. The Death of the Hare	226	(1)
231 V. The Empty Cup	227	(1)
232 VI. His Memories	227	(1)
233 VII. The Friends of his Youth	228	(1)
234 VIII. Summer and Spring	229	(1)
235 IX. The Secrets of the Old	229	(1)
236 X. His Wildness	230	(1)
237 XI. From `Oedipus at Colonus'	230	(1)
238 The Three Monuments	231	(1)
239 All Souls' Night	231	(6)
THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS (1933)	237	(48)
240 In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz	237	(1)
241 Death	238	(1)
242 A Dialogue of Self and Soul	238	(3)
243 Blood and the Moon	241	(2)
244 Oil and Blood	243	(1)
245 Veronica's Napkin	243	(1)
246 Symbols	243	(1)
247 Spilt Milk	244	(1)
248 The Nineteenth Century and After	244	(1)
249 Statistics	244	(1)
250 Three Movements	244	(1)
251 The Seven Sages	245	(1)
252 The Crazed Moon	246	(1)
253 Coole Park, 1929	246	(1)
254 Coole and Ballylee, 1931	247	(2)
255 For Anne Gregory	249	(1)
256 Swift's Epitaph	250	(1)
257 At Algeciras--a Meditation upon Death	250	(1)
258 The Choice	251	(1)
259 Mohini Chatterjee	251	(1)
260 Byzantium	252	(1)
261 The Mother of God	253	(1)
262 Vacillation	254	(3)
263 Quarrel in Old Age	257	(1)
264 The Results of Thought	257	(1)
265 Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors	258	(1)
266 Remorse for Intemperate Speech	258	(1)
267 Stream and Sun at Glendalough	259	(1)
Words for Music Perhaps:	260	(15)
268 I. Crazy Jane and the Bishop	260	(1)
269 II. Crazy Jane Reproved	261	(1)
270 III. Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment	261	(1)
271 IV. Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman	262	(1)
272 V. Crazy Jane on God	263	(1)
273 VI. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	263	(1)
274 VII. Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers	264	(1)
275 VIII. Girl's Song	265	(1)
276 IX. Young Man's Song	265	(1)
277 X. Her Anxiety	266	(1)
278 XI. His Confidence	266	(1)
279 XII. Love's Loneliness	267	(1)
280 XIII. Her Dream	267	(1)
281 XIV. His Bargain	268	(1)
282 XV. Three Things	268	(1)
283 XVI. Lullaby	269	(1)
284 XVII. After Long Silence	269	(1)
285 XVIII. Mad as the Mist and Snow	270	(1)
286 XIX. Those Dancing Days are Gone	270	(1)
287 XX. `I am of Ireland'	271	(1)
288 XXI. The Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick	272	(1)
289 XXII. Tom the Lunatic	273	(1)
290 XXIII. Tom at Cruachan	273	(1)
291 XXIV. Old Tom again	274	(1)
292 XXV. The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus	274	(1)
A Woman Young and Old:	275	(10)
293 I. Father and Child	275	(1)
294 II. Before the World was Made	275	(1)
295 III. A First Confession	276	(1)
296 IV. Her Triumph	276	(1)
297 V. Consolation	277	(1)
298 VI. Chosen	277	(1)
299 VII. Parting	278	(1)
300 VIII. Her Vision in the Wood	279	(1)
301 IX. A Last Confession	280	(1)
302 X. Meeting	281	(1)
303 XI. From the `Antigone'	281	(4)
[PARNELL'S FUNERAL AND OTHER POEMS (1935)]	285	(14)
304 Parnell's Funeral	285	(1)
305 Alternative Song for the Severed Head in `The King of the Great Clock Tower'	286	(1)
306 Two Songs Rewritten for the Tune's Sake	287	(1)
307 A Prayer for Old Age	288	(1)
308 Church and State	289	(1)
Supernatural Songs:
309 I. Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn	289	(1)
310 II. Ribh denounces Patrick	290	(1)
311 III. Ribh in Ecstasy	291	(1)
312 IV. There	291	(1)
313 V. Ribh considers Christian Love insufficient	291	(1)
314 VI. He and She	292	(1)
315 VII. What Magic Drum?	293	(1)
316 VIII. Whence had they Come?	293	(1)
317 IX. The Four Ages of Man	294	(1)
318 X. Conjunctions	294	(1)
319 XI. A Needle's Eye	294	(1)
320 XII. Meru	295	(4)
NEW POEMS (1938)	299	(34)
321 The Gyres	299	(1)
322 Lapis Lazuli	300	(2)
323 Imitated from the Japanese	302	(1)
324 Sweet Dancer	302	(1)
325 The Three Bushes	303	(2)
326 The Lady's First Song	305	(1)
327 The Lady's Second Song	305	(1)
328 The Lady's Third Song	306	(1)
329 The Lover's Song	307	(1)
330 The Chambermaid's First Song	307	(1)
331 The Chambermaid's Second Song	307	(1)
332 An Acre of Grass	308	(1)
333 What Then?	308	(1)
334 Beautiful Lofty Things	309	(1)
335 A Crazed Girl	310	(1)
336 To Dorothy Wellesley	310	(1)
337 The Curse of Cromwell	311	(1)
338 Roger Casement	312	(1)
339 The Ghost of Roger Casement	313	(1)
340 The O'Rahilly	314	(1)
341 Come Gather Round Me Parnellites	315	(1)
342 The Wild Old Wicked Man	316	(2)
343 The Great Day	318	(1)
344 Parnell	318	(1)
345 What Was Lost	318	(1)
346 The Spur	319	(1)
347 A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety	319	(1)
348 The Pilgrim	320	(1)
349 Colonel Martin	321	(2)
350 A Model for the Laureate	323	(1)
351 The Old Stone Cross	324	(1)
352 The Spirit Medium	325	(1)
353 Those Images	326	(1)
354 The Municipal Gallery Re-visited	326	(3)
355 Are You Content	329	(4)
[LAST POEMS (1938-1939)]	333	(28)
356 Under Ben Bulben	333	(3)
357 Three Songs to the One Burden	336	(3)
358 The Black Tower	339	(1)
359 Cuchulain Comforted	340	(1)
360 Three Marching Songs	341	(3)
361 In Tara's Halls	344	(1)
362 The Statues	344	(1)
363 News for the Delphic Oracle	345	(2)
364 Long-legged Fly	347	(1)
365 A Bronze Head	348	(1)
366 A Stick of Incense	349	(1)
367 Hound Voice	349	(1)
368 John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore	350	(1)
369 High Talk	351	(1)
370 The Apparitions	352	(1)
371 A Nativity	352	(1)
372 Man and the Echo	353	(2)
373 The Circus Animals' Desertion	355	(1)
374 Politics	356	(5)
Narrative and Dramatic	361	(98)
375 The Wanderings of Oisin (1889)	361	(34)
376 The Old Age of Queen Maeve (1903)	395	(8)
377 Baile and Aillinn (1903)	403	(10)
The Shadowy Waters (1906)	413	(46)
378 Introductory Lines	413	(2)
379 The Harp of Aengus	415	(2)
380 The Shadowy Waters	417	(26)
381 The Two Kings (1914)	443	(8)
382 The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid (1923)	451	(8)
PART TWO Additional Poems	459	(140)
A1 The Island of Statues	459	(30)
A2 Love and Death	489	(1)
A3 The Seeker	490	(3)
A4 Life	493	(1)
A5 The Two Titans	494	(2)
A6 On Mr. Nettleship's Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy	496	(1)
A7 Mosada	497	(11)
A8 Remembrance	508	(1)
A9 A Dawn-Song	508	(1)
A10 The Fairy Pedant	509	(2)
A11 Song of Spanish Insurgents	511	(1)
A12 [How beautiful thy colors are, oh marvellous morn of May]	512	(1)
A13 How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent	512	(4)
A14 She Who Dwelt among the Sycamores	516	(1)
A15 The Fairy Doctor	517	(1)
A16 The Protestants' Leap	518	(2)
A17 Love Song	520	(1)
A18 The Phantom Ship	520	(1)
A19 A Legend	521	(2)
A20 Time and the Witch Vivien	523	(3)
A21 [Full moody is my love and sad]	526	(1)
A22 Kanva on Himself	527	(1)
A23 A Lover's Quarrel among the Fairies	527	(2)
A24 The Priest and the Fairy	529	(3)
A25 Street Dancers	532	(2)
A26 Quatrains and Aphorisms	534	(1)
A27 In Church	535	(1)
A28 A Summer Evening	536	(1)
A29 In the Firelight	537	(1)
A30 Mourn--And Then Onward!	537	(1)
A31 When you are Sad	538	(1)
A32 Where My Books Go	538	(1)
A33 The Ballad of Earl Paul	539	(2)
A34 The Danaan Quicken Tree	541	(1)
A35 Wisdom and Dreams	542	(1)
A36 [The wind blows out of the gates of the day]	542	(1)
A37 [The poet, Owen Hanrahan, under a bush of may]	543	(1)
A38 [Impetuous heart be still, be still]	543	(1)
A39 [Lift up the white knee]	544	(1)
A40 [Out of sight is out of mind]	544	(1)
A41 A Song of the Rosy-Cross	544	(1)
A42 [Seven paters seven times]	545	(1)
A43 The Glove and the Cloak	545	(1)
A44 The Blood Bond	546	(1)
A45 Spinning Song	546	(1)
A46 [I will go cry with the woman]	547	(1)
A47 [Do not make a great keening]	547	(1)
A48 [They shall be remembered for ever]	547	(1)
A49 [O Biddy Donahoe]	548	(1)
A50 [The spouse of Naoise, Erin's woe]	548	(1)
A51 [There's broth in the pot for you, old man]	548	(1)
A52 [There's nobody'll call out for him]	549	(1)
A53 [The four rivers that run there]	550	(1)
A54 [`Why is it,' Queen Edain said]	550	(1)
A55 [Come ride and ride to the garden]	551	(1)
A56 [May this fire have driven out]	552	(1)
A57 [Cuchulain has killed kings]	553	(1)
A58 [Love is an immoderate thing]	553	(1)
A59 [They are gone, they are gone. The proud may lie by the proud]	554	(1)
A60 [I put under the power of my prayer]	554	(1)
A61 [O come all ye airy bachelors]	555	(1)
A62 [O, Johnny Gibbons, my five hundred healths to you]	555	(1)
A63 [O, the lion shall lose his strength]	556	(1)
A64 [Three that are watching my time to run]	556	(1)
A65 [My man is the best]	556	(1)
A66 [The friends that have it I do wrong]	557	(1)
A67 [I was going the road one day]	558	(1)
A68 [Accursed who brings to light of day]	558	(1)
A69 [Nothing that he has done]	559	(1)
A70 [Laegaire is best]	559	(1)
A71 [Who stole your wits away]	560	(1)
A72 [I hear the wind a-blow]	560	(1)
A73 [Were I but crazy for love's sake]	560	(1)
A74 [The man that I praise]	561	(1)
A75 [I call to the eye of the mind]	561	(1)
A76 [The boughs of the hazel shake]	562	(1)
A77 [O God, protect me]	562	(1)
A78 [He has lost what may not be found]	563	(1)
A79 [Come to me, human faces]	563	(1)
A80 [Why does my heart beat so]	564	(1)
A81 [Why should the heart take fright]	564	(1)
A82 [At the grey round of the hill]	565	(1)
A83 [A woman's beauty is like a white]	566	(1)
A84 [White shell, white wing]	567	(1)
A85 [Why does your heart beat thus]	567	(1)
A86 Reprisals	568	(1)
A87 [Motionless under the moon-beam]	569	(1)
A88 [O, but the mockers' cry]	570	(1)
A89 [Take but His love away]	570	(1)
A90 [Lonely the sea-bird lies at her rest]	570	(1)
A91 The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool	571	(1)
A92 [Shall I fancy beast or fowl]	572	(1)
A93 [Upon the round blue eye I rail]	573	(1)
A94 Song of the Drunkard	573	(1)
A95 [What message comes to famous Thebes from the Golden House]	573	(1)
A96 [The Delphian rock has spoken out, now must a wicked mind]	574	(1)
A97 [For this one thing above all I would be praised as a man]	574	(1)
A98 [Oedipus' nurse, mountain of many a hidden glen]	575	(1)
A99 [What can the shadow-like generations of man attain]	576	(1)
A100 [Make way for Oedipus. All people said]	576	(1)
A101 [Huddon, Duddon, and Daniel O'Leary]	577	(1)
A102 [Astrea's holy child]	577	(1)
A103 [Move upon Newton's town]	578	(1)
A104 [Should H. G. Wells afflict you]	578	(1)
A105 Three Songs to the Same Tune	579	(3)
A106 [Let images of basalt, black, immovable]	582	(1)
A107 [They dance all day that dance in Tir-nan-oge]	582	(1)
A108 [O what may come]	583	(1)
A109 [O, but I saw a solemn sight]	583	(1)
A110 [To Garret or Cellar a wheel I send]	584	(1)
A111 [The bravest from the gods but ask]	584	(1)
A112 [Decline of day]	584	(1)
A113 [Would I were there when they turn and Theban robbers face]	584	(1)
A114 [What is this portent? What does it shadow forth?]	585	(1)
A115 [I call upon Persephone, queen of the dead]	586	(1)
A116 [He had famished in a wilderness]	586	(1)
A117 [Every loutish lad in love]	587	(1)
A118 [Child and darling, hear my song]	588	(1)
A119 [I sing a song of Jack and Jill]	588	(1)
A120 [Why must those holy, haughty feet descend]	589	(1)
A121 [Clip and lip and long for more]	590	(1)
A122 Dedication	590	(1)
A123 [This they nailed upon a post]	591	(1)
A124 [When I take a beast to my joyful breast]	591	(1)
A125 [When beak and claw their work began]	592	(1)
A126 [Why should not Old Men be Mad?]	592	(1)
A127 [Crazy Jane on the Mountain]	593	(1)
A128 [Avalon]	594	(1)
A129 [The harlot sang to the beggarman]	595	(4)
Appendix A: Yeats's Notes in The Collected Poems (1933)	599	(10)
Notes to Appendix A	609	(10)
Appendix B: Music from New Poems (1938)	619	(3)
Notes to Appendix B	622	(1)
Explanatory Notes	623	(100)
Textual Notes	723	(10)
Index to Titles	733	(9)
Index to First Lines	742