The collections

Yeats arranged his poems in books, and the order matters: each book is a stage of his life. Here they are as he left them, with the narrative poems and the early poems he later dropped at the end.

• Crossways1889 · 16 poems
• The Rose1893 · 23 poems
• The Wind Among the Reeds1899 · 37 poems
• In the Seven Woods1903 · 14 poems
• The Green Helmet and Other Poems1910 · 21 poems
• Responsibilities1914 · 31 poems
• The Wild Swans at Coole1917 · 46 poems
• Michael Robartes and the Dancer1921 · 15 poems
• The Tower1928 · 30 poems
• The Winding Stair and Other Poems1933 · 64 poems
• A Full Moon in March1935 · 18 poems
• New Poems1938 · 35 poems
• Last Poems1939 · 22 poems
• Narrative and Dramatic Poems7 poems
• Early and uncollected poems33 poems