The Poems
Every poem W. B. Yeats published, from Crossways (1889) to Last Poems (1939). The poems to 1929 are here in full; the later ones have notes now and their text as it comes out of US copyright.
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- An abstract Greek absurdity has crazed the manRibh denounces Patrick
- Accursed who brings to light of dayAccursed Who Brings to Light of Day
- Acquaintance; companion;The Results of Thought
- Afar from our lawn and our levee,The Fairy Pedant
- Ah, that Time could touch a form(reading available)Peace
- All the heavy days are over;(reading available)The Countess Cathleen in Paradise
- All the stream that's roaring byA Needle's Eye
- All the words that I gather,(reading available)Where My Books Go
- All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:(reading available)All Things can tempt Me
- All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,(reading available)The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart
- Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,(reading available)Fallen Majesty
- Although I can see him still(reading available)The Fisherman
- Although I shelter from the rain(reading available)The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
- "Although I'd lie lapped up in linen(reading available)Under the Round Tower
- Although you hide in the ebb and flow(reading available)The Fish
- And thus declared that Arab lady:(reading available)Solomon and the Witch
- The angels are stooping(reading available)A Cradle Song
- Around me the images of thirty years:The Municipal Gallery Revisited
- Around the twitter of the lips of dustIn a Drawing-Room
- As I came over Windy Gap(reading available)Running to Paradise
- As the moon sidles upHe and She
- Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,(reading available)The Falling of the Leaves
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- Bald heads forgetful of their sins,(reading available)The Scholars
- Be you still, be you still, trembling heart;(reading available)To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear
- Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;Beautiful Lofty Things
- 'Because I am mad about womenThe Wild Old Wicked Man
- Because there is safety in derisionThe Apparitions
- Because to-day is some religious festivalShe turns the Dolls' Faces to the Wall
- Because we love bare hills and stunted treesHound Voice
- Because you have found me in the pitch-dark nightRibh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn
- Behold that great Plotinus swimThe Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus
- Behold the flashing waters,Love and Death
- Being out of heart with government(reading available)An Appointment
- Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,(reading available)The Two Trees
- Beloved, hear my bitter tale!The Danaan Quicken Tree
- Beloved, may your sleep be soundLullaby
- Between extremitiesVacillation
- Bid a strong ghost stand at the head(reading available)A Prayer for my Son
- Bird sighs for the air,The Lover's Song
- Blessed be this place,(reading available)Blood and the Moon
- A bloody and a sudden end,John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore
- Bolt and bar the shutter,Mad as the Mist and Snow
- The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,(reading available)The Sorrow of Love
- Bring me to the blasted oakCrazy Jane and the Bishop
- Bring where our Beauty liesCertain Artists bring her Dolls and Drawings
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- "Call down the hawk from the air;(reading available)The Hawk
- The cat went here and there(reading available)The Cat and the Moon
- The child pursuing lizards in the grass,Life
- The child who chases lizards in the grass,Quatrains and Aphorisms
- Civilisation is hooped together, broughtMeru
- The Colonel went out sailing,Colonel Martin
- Come and dream of kings and kingdoms,In the Firelight
- Come gather round me, Parnellites,Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
- Come play with me;(reading available)To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no
- Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise(reading available)Colonus' Praise
- Come round me, little childer;(reading available)The Ballad of Moll Magee
- Come swish around, my pretty punk,A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety
- Come, let me sing into your ear;Those Dancing Days are gone
- Crazed through much child-bearingThe Crazed Moon
- A crazy man that found a cup,The Empty Cup
- Cumhal called out, bending his head,(reading available)The Blessed
- A cursing rogue with a merry face,(reading available)The Hour before Dawn
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- The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,The Unappeasable Host
- Dance there upon the shore;(reading available)To a Child dancing in the Wind
- Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case.(reading available)At the Abbey Theatre
- Dear fellow-artist, why so free(reading available)To a Young Beauty
- Dear, I must be goneParting
- The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears(reading available)The Valley of the Black Pig
- Do not because this day I have grown saturnine(reading available)Under Saturn
- Do not fear us, earthly maid!A Lover's Quarrel Among the Fairies
- Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns!(reading available)He mourns for the Change that has come upon Him and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World
- A doll in the doll-maker's house(reading available)The Dolls
- Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;(reading available)Down by the Salley Gardens
- Dry timber under that rich foliage,Her Vision in the Wood
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- The fairy doctor comes our wayThe Fairy Doctor
- Far off, most secret, and inviolate Rose,(reading available)The Secret Rose
- The fascination of what's difficult(reading available)The Fascination of What's Difficult
- Fasten your hair with a golden pin,(reading available)He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes
- Five-and-twenty years have gone(reading available)In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
- Flames the shuttle of the lightning across the driving sleet,The Phantom Ship
- For certain minutes at the least(reading available)Demon and Beast
- For one throb of the Artery,(reading available)A Meditation in Time of War
- The friends that have it I do wrongThe Friends That Have It I Do Wrong
- From pleasure of the bed,The Chambermaid's Second Song
- From the play of The Country of the Young.(reading available)The Happy Townland
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- The girl goes dancing thereSweet Dancer
- God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage(reading available)A Prayer on going into my House
- God guard me from those thoughts men thinkA Prayer for Old Age
- Good Father John O'Hart(reading available)The Ballad of Father O'Hart
- Grandfather sang it under the gallows:Three Songs to the Same Tune
- The gyres! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth;The Gyres
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- Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,(reading available)He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
- Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,(reading available)He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved
- Hands, do what you're bid;(reading available)The Balloon of the Mind
- Has no one said those daringTwo Years Later
- He holds him from desire, all but stops his breathing lestWhat Magic Drum?
- He stood among a crowd at Drumahair;(reading available)The Man who dreamed of Faeryland
- He who measures gain and loss,A Song of the Rosy Cross
- He with body waged a fight,The Four Ages of Man
- The Heavenly Circuit; Berenice's Hair;Veronica's Napkin
- Heavy with wool the sheep are gathered in,The Seeker
- Here at right of the entrance this bronze head,A Bronze Head
- Here is fresh matter, poet,Church and State
- The heron-billed pale cattle-birdsAt Algeciras - a Meditation upon Death
- Hidden by old age awhileMeeting
- His chosen comrades thought at schoolWhat Then?
- Hope that you may understand!(reading available)The Realists
- The host is riding from Knocknarea(reading available)The Hosting of the Sidhe
- How came this rangerThe Chambermaid's First Song
- How can I, that girl standing there,LCPolitics
- How should the world be luckier if this house,(reading available)Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
- Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!The Great Day
- Hurry to bless the hands that play,(reading available)The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves
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- I admit the briarA First Confession
- 'I am of Ireland,'I am of Ireland'
- I am tired of cursing the Bishop,Crazy Jane on the Mountain
- I am worn out with dreams;(reading available)Men improve with the Years
- I asked if I should pray,Mohini Chatterjee
- I bring you with reverent hands(reading available)A Poet to his Beloved
- I call on those that call me son,Are You Content?
- I care not what the sailors say:Crazy Jane Reproved
- I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds:(reading available)The Withering of the Boughs
- I did the dragon's will until you cameHer Triumph
- I dreamed as in my bed I lay,Her Dream
- I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,(reading available)He tells of a Valley full of Lovers
- I dreamed that one had died in a strange place(reading available)A Dream of Death
- I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk,The Pilgrim
- I found that ivory image thereCrazy Jane grown old looks at the Dancers
- I had a chair at every hearth,The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
- I had this thought awhile ago,Words
- I hardly hear the curlew cry,Baile and Aillinn
- I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young(reading available)He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven
- I have heard that hysterical women sayLapis Lazuli
- I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods(reading available)In the Seven Woods
- I have met them at close of day(reading available)LCEaster, 1916
- I have no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde,(reading available)Under the Moon
- I have old women's secrets nowThe Secrets of the Old
- I have pointed out the yelling pack,The Death of the Hare
- I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake,(reading available)He bids his Beloved be at Peace
- I heard the old, old men say,(reading available)The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water
- I know that I shall meet my fate(reading available)LCAn Irish Airman foresees his Death
- I know, although when looks meetCrazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman
- I lived among great houses,The Statesman's Holiday
- I made my song a coat(reading available)A Coat
- I meditate upon a swallow's flight,Coole Park, 1929
- I met the Bishop on the roadCrazy Jane talks with the Bishop
- I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees,(reading available)The Indian upon God
- I pray that I ever be weavingWisdom and Dreams
- I ranted to the knave and fool,Remorse for Intemperate Speech
- I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow(reading available)The Song of the Old Mother
- I sat on cushioned otter skin:(reading available)The Madness of King Goll
- I say that Roger CasementRoger Casement
- I sing what was lost and dread what was won,What was Lost
- I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,The Circus Animals' Desertion
- I summon to the winding ancient stair;A Dialogue of Self and Soul
- I swayed upon the gaudy stern(reading available)His Dream
- I think it better that in times like these(reading available)On being asked for a War Poem
- I thought no more was needed(reading available)A Song
- I thought of your beauty, and this arrow,(reading available)The Arrow
- I turn roundThe Lady's First Song
- I walk through the long schoolroom questioning,(reading available)Among School Children
- I walked among the seven woods of Coole,The Shadowy Waters (Introductory Lines)
- I wander by the edge(reading available)He hears the Cry of the Sedge
- I went out aloneGirl's Song
- I went out to the hazel wood,(reading available)The Song of Wandering Aengus
- I whispered, "I am too young."(reading available)Brown Penny
- I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,(reading available)LCThe Lake Isle of Innisfree
- I would be ignorant as the dawn(reading available)The Dawn
- I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!(reading available)The White Birds
- I, proclaiming that there isThe Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick
- I, the poet William Yeats,To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
- I'll say and maybe dream I have drawn content(reading available)The Living Beauty
- If any man drew near(reading available)A Woman Homer sung
- If I make the lashes darkBefore the World was made
- If Jupiter and Saturn meet,Conjunctions
- If Michael, leader of God's host(reading available)The Rose of Peace
- If this importunate heart trouble your peace(reading available)The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods
- If you have revisited the town, thin Shade,(reading available)To a Shade
- If you, that have grown old, were the first dead,(reading available)The New Faces
- In a cleft that's christened AltThe Man and the Echo
- In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli(reading available)Oil and Blood
- Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite(reading available)Paudeen
- The intellect of man is forced to chooseThe Choice
- The island dreams under the dawn(reading available)The Indian to his Love
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- Laughter not time destroyed my voiceThe Friends of his Youth
- "Lay me in a cushioned chair;(reading available)The Ballad of the Foxhunter
- The light of evening, Lissadell,LCIn Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
- Like the moon her kindness is,Human Dignity
- A little boy outside the sycamore woodShe Who Dwelt Among the Sycamores
- The living woods forego their care,A Summer Evening
- Locke sank into a swoon;Fragments
- The lot of love is chosen. I learnt that muchChosen
- 'Love is allCrazy Jane on the Day of Judgment
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- Maeve the great queen was pacing to and fro,The Old Age of Queen Maeve
- The Maker of the stars and worldsA Legend
- A man came slowly from the setting sun,(reading available)Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
- A man has a hope for heaven,Song of the Faeries
- A man I praise that once in Tara's HallsIn Tara's Halls
- A man that had six mortal wounds, a manCuchulain Comforted
- "The Man that I praise,"(reading available)The Well and the Tree
- Many ingenious lovely things are gone(reading available)Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
- May God be praised for woman(reading available)On Woman
- A mermaid found a swimming lad,The Mermaid
- Midnight has come and the great Christ Church Bell,(reading available)All Souls' Night
- The moments passed as at a play,(reading available)A Memory of Youth
- A most astonishing thingImitated from the Japanese
- Much did I rage when young,(reading available)Youth and Age
- My dear, my dear, I know(reading available)To a Young Girl
- My great-grandfather spoke to Edmund BurkeThe Seven Sages
- My love, we will go, we will go, I and you,Love Song
- My mother dandled me and sang,A Song from 'The Player Queen'
- My Paistin Finn is my sole desire,Two Songs Rewritten for the Tune's Sake
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- Never give all the heart, for love(reading available)Never give all the Heart
- 'Never shall a young man,For Anne Gregory
- Never until this night have I been stirred.(reading available)An Image from a Past Life
- Nor dread nor hope attendDeath
- Now all the truth is out,(reading available)To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing
- Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,(reading available)The Magi
- Now must I these three praise(reading available)Friends
- Now that we're almost settled in our house(reading available)In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
- Now wherefore hast thou tears innumerous?Kanva on Himself
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- O bid me mount and sail up thereHis Wildness
- O but there is wisdomConsolation
- O but we talked at large before(reading available)Sixteen Dead Men
- O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,(reading available)He tells of the Perfect Beauty
- 'O cruel Death, give three things back,'Three Things
- O curlew, cry no more in the air,(reading available)He reproves the Curlew
- O heart, be at peace, because(reading available)Against Unworthy Praise
- O hurry where by water among the trees,(reading available)The Ragged Wood
- O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;(reading available)The Everlasting Voices
- O thought, fly to her when the end of day(reading available)Old Memory
- O what has made that sudden noise?The Ghost of Roger Casement
- O what to me the little room(reading available)The Heart of the Woman
- O women, kneeling by your altar rails long hence,The Lover speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in Coming Days
- "O words are lightly spoken,"(reading available)The Rose Tree
- O'Driscoll drove with a song(reading available)The Host of the Air
- The old brown thorn trees break in two high over Cummen Strand(reading available)Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland
- Old fathers, great-grandfathers,Love's Loneliness
- An old man cocked his ear upon a bridge;(reading available)The Phases of the Moon
- The old priest Peter Gilligan(reading available)The Ballad of Father Gilligan
- On Cruachan's plain slept heTom at Cruachan
- On the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye(reading available)The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
- On the grey sand beside the shallow stream(reading available)Ego Dominus Tuus
- On thrones from China to PeruA Model for the Laureate
- Once more the storm is howling and half hid(reading available)A Prayer for my Daughter
- Once, when midnight smote the air,(reading available)On those that hated 'The Playboy of the Western World', 1907
- One had a lovely face,(reading available)Memory
- One that is ever kind said yesterday:(reading available)The Folly of being Comforted
- Opinion is not worth a rush;(reading available)Michael Robartes and the Dancer
- Others because you did not keep(reading available)A Deep-sworn Vow
- Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,(reading available)Into the Twilight
- Overcome - O bitter sweetness,From the 'Antigone'
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- Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,(reading available)The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love
- Pardon great enemy,Her Friends bring her a Christmas Tree
- Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain(reading available)Introductory Rhymes
- Parnell came down the road, he said to a cheering man:Parnell
- Picture and book remain,LCAn Acre of Grass
- A pity beyond all telling(reading available)The Pity of Love
- Poetry, music, I have loved, and yetThe Spirit Medium
- Poets with whom I learned my trade,(reading available)The Grey Rock
- Pour wine and dance if Manhood still have pride,(reading available)The Mountain Tomb
- The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows(reading available)The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers
- Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.High Talk
- "Put off that mask of burning gold(reading available)The Mask
- Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare?The Statues
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- Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!(reading available)To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
- Remember all those renowned generations,Three Marching Songs
- Remembering thee, I search out these faint flowersRemembrance
- The Roaring Tinker if you like,Three Songs to the One Burden
- Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!(reading available)The Rose of Battle
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- Saddle and ride, I heard a man say,Alternative Song for the Severed Head in 'The King of the Great Clock Tower'
- Said lady once to lover,The Three Bushes
- Sang old Tom the lunaticTom the Lunatic
- Sang Solomon to Sheba,(reading available)Solomon to Sheba
- Say that the men of the old black tower,The Black Tower
- Send peace on all the lands and flickering corn.(reading available)Anashuya and Vijaya
- Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;Three Movements
- She has not grown uncivilHer Race
- She hears me strike the board and sayFather and Child
- She is foremost of those that I would hear praised.(reading available)Her Praise
- She is playing like a childThe End of Day
- She lived in storm and strife,(reading available)That the Night come
- She might, so noble from head(reading available)A Thought from Propertius
- She prays for father, mother dear,In Church
- She that but little patience knew,(reading available)On a Political Prisoner
- 'She will change,' I cried,Young Man's Song
- Shy one, shy one,(reading available)To an Isle in the Water
- Sickness brought me this(reading available)A Friend's Illness
- Sing of the O'Rahilly,The O'Rahilly
- Singing in this London streetStreet Dancers
- Some may have blamed you that you took away(reading available)Reconciliation
- A speckled cat and a tame hare(reading available)Two Songs of a Fool
- Speech after long silence; it is right,After Long Silence
- Stand up and lift your hand and bless(reading available)The Saint and the Hunchback
- A statesman is an easy man,The Old Stone Cross
- A storm-beaten old watch-tower,Symbols
- A strange thing surely that my heart when love had come unsoughtOwen Aherne and his Dancers
- Stretch towards the moonless midnight of the trees,To Dorothy Wellesley
- A sudden blow: the great wings beating still(reading available)Leda and the Swan
- Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting Heaven(reading available)The Cold Heaven
- Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,(reading available)LCMeditations in Time of Civil War
- Swear by what the sages spokeLCUnder Ben Bulben
- Sweetheart, do not love too long:(reading available)O do not Love Too Long
- Swift has sailed into his rest;LCSwift's Epitaph
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- That civilisation may not sink,Long-legged Fly
- That crazed girl improvising her music,A Crazed Girl
- That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year.(reading available)Shepherd and Goatherd
- That is no country for old men. The young(reading available)LCSailing to Byzantium
- That lover of a nightCrazy Jane on God
- There all the barrel-hoops are knit,There
- There all the golden codgers lay,News for the Delphic Oracle
- There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain,(reading available)His Phoenix
- There is grey in your hair.(reading available)Broken Dreams
- There was a green branch hung with many a bell(reading available)The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists
- There was a man whom Sorrow named his friend(reading available)The Sad Shepherd
- There where the course is,(reading available)At Galway Races
- These are the clouds about the fallen sun,(reading available)These are the Clouds
- These songs are sung by the Chorus in a play that has for its theme(reading available)Two Songs from a Play
- They hold their public meetings where(reading available)The Three Monuments
- They must to keep their certainty accuse(reading available)The Leaders of the Crowd
- Things out of perfection sail,Old Tom again
- This great purple butterfly,(reading available)Another Song of a Fool
- This night has been so strange that it seemed(reading available)Presences
- 'Those Platonists are a curse,' he said,Statistics
- Though leaves are many, the root is one;(reading available)The Coming of Wisdom with Time
- "Though logic choppers rule the town,(reading available)Tom O'Roughley
- Though nurtured like the sailing moonFirst Love
- Though the great song return no moreThe Nineteenth Century and After
- "Though to my feathers in the wet,(reading available)The Three Beggars
- Though you are in your shining days,(reading available)The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends
- Three old hermits took the air(reading available)The Three Hermits
- The three-fold terror of love; a fallen flareThe Mother of God
- Through intricate motions ranStream and Sun at Glendalough
- Through winter-time we call on spring,(reading available)The Wheel
- Time drops in decay,(reading available)The Moods
- "Time to put off the world and go somewhere(reading available)Beggar to Beggar cried
- Toil, and grow rich,(reading available)The Witch
- The trees are in their autumn beauty,(reading available)LCThe Wild Swans at Coole
- The true faith discovered was(reading available)Wisdom
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre(reading available)LCThe Second Coming
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- Was it the double of my dream(reading available)Towards Break of Day
- We have cried in our despair(reading available)When Helen lived
- We sat together at one summer's end,(reading available)Adam's Curse
- We sat under an old thorn-treeSummer and Spring
- We should be hidden from their eyes,His Memories
- We that have done and thought,Spilt Milk
- We who are old, old and gay,(reading available)A Faery Song
- We, too, have seen our bravest and our bestHow Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent
- Were you but lying cold and dead,(reading available)He wishes his Beloved were Dead
- "What do you make so fair and bright?"(reading available)The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
- "What have I earned for all that work," I said,(reading available)The People
- What if I bade you leaveThose Images
- What lively lad most pleasured meA Last Confession
- What matter that you understood no word!Ribh in Ecstasy
- What need you, being come to sense,(reading available)LCSeptember 1913
- What shall I do with this absurdity(reading available)The Tower
- What sort of man is comingThe Lady's Second Song
- What they undertook to doGratitude to the Unknown Instructors
- What woman hugs her infant there?A Nativity
- What's riches to him(reading available)The Peacock
- When all works that haveThe Hero, the Girl, and the Fool
- When have I last looked on(reading available)Lines written in Dejection
- When her soul flies to the predestined dancing-placeHer Courage
- When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,(reading available)The Fiddler of Dooney
- When my arms wrap you round I press(reading available)He remembers forgotten Beauty
- When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide;(reading available)The Travail of Passion
- When you and my true lover meetThe Lady's Third Song
- When you are old and grey and full of sleep,(reading available)When You are Old
- When you are sad,When You Are Sad
- Whence did all that fury come?A Stick of Incense
- Where dips the rocky highland(reading available)The Stolen Child
- Where had her sweetness gone?Quarrel in Old Age
- Where has Maid Quiet gone to,(reading available)Maid Quiet
- Where moves there any beautiful as I,Time and the Witch Vivien
- Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature
- While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,(reading available)To Some I have Talked with by the Fire
- While I, from that reed-throated whispererClosing Rhyme
- Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?(reading available)The Rose of the World
- Who talks of Plato's spindle;His Bargain
- Who will go drive with Fergus now,(reading available)Who goes with Fergus?
- The whole day have I followed in the rocks,(reading available)Fergus and the Druid
- Why should I blame her that she filled my days(reading available)No Second Troy
- Why should I seek for love or study it?Ribh considers Christian Love insufficient
- Why should not old men be mad?Why should not Old Men be Mad?
- Wine comes in at the mouth(reading available)A Drinking Song
- With the old kindness, the old distinguished graceHer Courtesy
- The woods of Arcady are dead,(reading available)The Song of the Happy Shepherd
- Would I could cast a sail on the water(reading available)The Collar-bone of a Hare
- "Would it were anything but merely voice!"(reading available)King and no King
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- Yonder the sickle of the moon sails on,On Mr. Nettleship's Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy
- You ask what I have found, and far and wide I go:The Curse of Cromwell
- You gave, but will not give again(reading available)To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures
- You say, as I have often given tongue(reading available)To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
- You think it horrible that lust and rageThe Spur
- You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play,(reading available)The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
- You who are bent, and bald, and blind,The Wanderings of Oisin
- "Your eyes that once were never weary of mine(reading available)Ephemera
- Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
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