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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...O AN ISLE IN THE WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 THE MEDITATION O... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 TO SOME I HA VE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . . . . . . . . . . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION . . . . . . . 91 AT THE ABBEY THEATRE (Imitated from ... ...THE SCHOLARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 TOM O’ROUGHLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 SH... ... . . . 275 XXI THE DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO PATRICK . . . . . . 276 XXII TOM THE LUNATIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 XXIII TOM... ...I TOM AT CRUACHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 XXIV OLD TOM AGAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 XXV THE DELPH... ...rser than rooks, He bade them give over their keening; For he was a man of books. 20 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS And these were the works of Jo... ...onely mysteries. A POET TO HIS BELOVED I BRING you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams, White woman that passion has worn As the tid... ...ting smoke All manner of blessed souls, Women and children, young men with books, And old men with croziers and stoles. ‘praise God and God’s Mother,’...

...ary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good. Where are now the warring kings, Word be-mockers?--By the Rood, Where are now the watring kings? An idle word is now their glory, By the stammering schoolboy said, Reading some entangled story: The kings of the old time are dead; The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudd...

...E, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, 18 -- THE BALLAD OF FATHER O?HART, 19 -- THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE, 20 -- THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER, 22 -- THE ROSE 26 -- TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, 2...

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