The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose Book

	Preface
	Chronology
	The Song of the Happy Shepherd	3
	The Sad Shepherd	4
	The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes	5
	The Indian to his Love	6
	The Falling of the Leaves	6
	Ephemera	7
	The Stolen Child	8
	To an Isle in the Water	9
	Down by the Salley Gardens	10
	The Meditation of the Old Fisherman	10
	To the Rose upon the Rood of Time	11
	Fergus and the Druid	12
	The Rose of the World	13
	The Lake Isle of Innisfree	13
	The Pity of Love	14
	The Sorrow of Love	14
	When You are Old	15
	The White Birds	15
	Who goes with Fergus?	16
	The Man who dreamed of Faeryland	16
	The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists	18
	The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner	18
	The Two Trees	19
	To Ireland in the Coming Times	20
	The Hosting of the Sidhe	22
	The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart	22
	The Fish	23
	The Song of Wandering Aengus	23
	The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love	24
	He reproves the Curlew	24
	He remembers forgotten Beauty	24
	A Poet to his Beloved	25
	He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes	25
	To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear	26
	The Cap and Bells	26
	He hears the Cry of the Sedge	27
	He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved	28
	The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends	28
	He wishes his Beloved were Dead	28
	He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	29
	In the Seven Woods	30
	The Arrow	30
	The Folly of being Comforted	31
	Never give all the Heart	31
	Adam's Curse	32
	Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland	33
	The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water	33
	O do not Love Too Long	34
	His Dream	35
	A Woman Homer sung	36
	Words	36
	No Second Troy	37
	Reconciliation	37
	The Fascination of What's Difficult	38
	A Drinking Song	38
	The Coming of Wisdom with Time	38
	On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature	39
	To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine	39
	The Mask	39
	Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation	40
	All things can tempt me	40
	Brown Penny	40
	[Introductory Rhymes]	42
	To a Wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures	43
	September 1913	44
	To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing	45
	Paudeen	45
	When Helen lived	46
	On Those that hated 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907	46
	The Three Beggars	46
	Beggar to Beggar cried	48
	The Witch	49
	The Peacock	49
	To a Child dancing in the Wind	50
	Two Years Later	50
	A Memory of Youth	51
	Fallen Majesty	51
	Friends	52
	The Cold Heaven	52
	That the Night come	53
	The Magi	53
	The Dolls	54
	A Coat	54
	[Closing Rhyme]	55
	The Wild Swans at Coole	56
	In Memory of Major Robert Gregory	57
	An Irish Airman foresees his Death	60
	Men improve with the Years	61
	The Living Beauty	61
	A Song	62
	The Scholars	62
	Lines written in Dejection	63
	On Woman	63
	The Fisherman	64
	Memory	65
	The People	66
	Broken Dreams	67
	A Deep-sworn Vow	68
	The Balloon of the Mind	68
	On being asked for a War Poem	68
	Ego Dominus Tuus	69
	The Double Vision of Michael Robartes	71
	Michael Robartes and the Dancer	74
	Easter, 1916	76
	Sixteen Dead Men	78
	The Rose Tree	79
	On a Political Prisoner	79
	The Second Coming	80
	A Prayer for my Daughter	81
	To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee	83
	Sailing to Byzantium	84
	The Tower	85
	Meditations in Time of Civil War	91
	Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	97
	A Prayer for my Son	101
	Fragments	102
	Leda and the Swan	102
	Among School Children	103
	From 'Oedipus at Colonus'	105
	All Souls' Night	106
	In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz	109
	A Dialogue of Self and Soul	110
	Coole Park, 1929	112
	Coole and Ballylee, 1931	113
	The Choice	115
	Mohini Chatterjee	115
	Byzantium	116
	Vacillation	117
	Crazy Jane and the Bishop	120
	Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	121
	Her Anxiety	121
	Lullaby	122
	After Long Silence	122
	Father and Child	123
	Parting	123
	Her Vision in the Wood	124
	A Last Confession	125
	From the 'Antigone'	125
	Parnell's Funeral	127
	A Prayer for Old Age	128
	Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn	129
	The Four Ages of Man	130
	Meru	130
	The Gyres	131
	Lapis Lazuli	132
	Imitated from the Japanese	133
	An Acre of Grass	134
	What Then?	134
	Beautiful Lofty Things	135
	Come Gather Round Me Parnellites	136
	The Great Day	137
	Parnell	137
	The Spur	137
	The Municipal Gallery Re-visited	137
	Are You Content	139
	Under Ben Bulben	141
	The Black Tower	144
	Cuchulain Comforted	145
	The Statues	146
	Long-legged Fly	147
	High Talk	148
	Man and the Echo	148
	The Circus Animals' Desertion	150
	Politics	151
	Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)	155
	On Baile's Strand (1904)	166
	Deirdre (1907)	192
	At the Hawk's Well (1917)	219
	The Words upon the Window-pane (1930)	230
	The Resurrection (1931)	246
	Purgatory (1938)	259
	The Death of Cuchulain (1939)	267
	From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)	281
	From Book I: Four Years, 1887-1891	293
	From Book II: Ireland After Parnell	302
	From Book III: Hodos Chameliontos	304
	From Book IV: The Tragic Generation	306
	From Book V: The Stirring of the Bones	314
	From Dramatis Personae (1935)	321
	From The Bounty of Sweden (1925)	327
	From Memoirs (Written 1916-17, Published 1972)	331
	From Journal (Written 1909-30, Published 1972)	354
	From Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944)	359
	What is 'Popular Poetry'?	363
	From Magic	369
	William Blake and the Imagination	371
	The Symbolism of Poetry	374
	Ireland and the Arts	382
	The Reform of the Theatre	387
	First Principles	390
	The Tragic Theatre	399
	From Anima Hominis	404
	From Anima Mundi	408
	From Introduction	412
	From Part I: The Principal Symbol	413
	From Part II: Examination of the Wheel	414
	From Part III: The Twenty-eight Incarnations	416
	From Book V: Dove or Swan	421
	Introduction	422
	Introduction to Essays	434
	Introduction to Plays	437
	From Preliminaries	440
	'Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye'	445
	Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni	451
	The Adoration of the Magi (1897)	454
	Red Hanrahan	460
	The Death of Hanrahan	468
App	First Published Texts of Six Poems	477
	A Note on the Notes	485
	A Note on the Text	487
	Notes to the Poems	488
	Notes to the Plays	523
	Notes to Autobiographical Writings	531
	Notes to Critical Writings	547
	Notes to Prose Fiction	564