The Secret Rose: Love Poems Book

	Introduction	1
	Down by the Salley Gardens	27
	The White Birds	27
	The Sorrow of Love	28
	When You are Old	28
	The Rose of the World	29
	The Pity of Love	29
	The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers	30
	The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart	30
	The Cap and Bells	31
	Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland	32
	He bids his Beloved be at Peace	33
	He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes	33
	A Poet to his Beloved	34
	He tells of the Perfect Beauty	34
	He remembers Forgotten Beauty	35
	The Secret Rose	36
	He reproves the Curlew	37
	He mourns for the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World	37
	The Song of Wandering Aengus	38
	He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven	39
	He hears the Cry of the Sedge	39
	He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	40
	The Harp of Aengus	40
	Baile and Aillinn	41
	The Arrow	49
	Adam's Curse	49
	The Folly of Being Comforted	50
	[Unpublished Lines, written after Maud Gonne married John MacBride]	51
	Never Give all the Heart	51
	No Second Troy	52
	Peace	52
	Against Unworthy Praise	53
	Brown Penny	53
	Friends	54
	Fallen Majesty	55
	A Memory of Youth	55
	The Two Kings	56
	A Thought from Propertius	64
	Her Praise	64
	His Phoenix	65
	A Deep-sworn Vow	66
	Broken Dreams	66
	Owen Aherne and his Dancers	69
	Solomon to Sheba	70
	Solomon and the Witch	71
	An Image from a Past Life	72
	A Prayer for my Daughter	74
	The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid	77
	Leda and the Swan	83
	Notes	84
	Index to Titles	118
	Index to First Lines	119