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Later Poems

169 entries · 10 sections

by William Butler Yeats

Easter, 1916 The Second Coming Title Page Preface Contents

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

The Hosting of the Sidhe The Everlasting Voices The Moods The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart The Host of the Air The Fisherman A Cradle Song Into the Twilight The Song of Wandering Aengus The Song of the Old Mother The Heart of the Woman The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love He Mourns for the Change that has Come Upon Him and his Beloved and Longs End of the World He Bids His Beloved be at Peace He Reproves the Curlew He Remembers Forgotten Beauty A Poet To His Beloved He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear The Cap and Bells The Valley of the Black Pig The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers He Tells of the Perfect Beauty He Hears the Cry of the Sedge He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved The Blessed The Secret Rose Maid Quiet The Travail of Passion The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends A Lover Speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in Coming Days The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven He Thinks of his Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven The Fiddler of Dooney

The Old Age of Queen Maeve (1903)

The Old Age of Queen Maeve

Baile and Aillinn (1903)

Baile and Aillinn

In the Seven Woods (1904)

In the Seven Woods The Arrow The Folly of Being Comforted Old Memory Never Give all the Heart The Withering of the Boughs Adam's Curse Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water Under the Moon The Ragged Wood O Do Not Love Too Long The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves The Happy Townland

The Shadowy Waters (1906)

Dedication The Harp of Aengus The Shadowy Waters

From the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912)

His Dream A Woman Homer Sung The Consolation No Second Troy Reconciliation King and No King Peace Against Unworthy Praise The Fascination of What's Difficult A Drinking Song The Coming of Wisdom with Time On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His And Mine The Mask Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation At the Abbey Theatre These are the Clouds At Galway Races A Friend's Illness All Things Can Tempt Me The Young Man's Song

Responsibilities (1914)

Responsibilities The Grey Rock The Two Kings To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it Were Proved the People Wanted Pictures September 1913 To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing Paudeen To a Shade When Helen Lived On Those That Hated ''The Playboy of the Western World,'' 1907 The Three Beggars The Three Hermits Beggar to Beggar Cried Running to Paradise The Hour Before Dawn A Song from the Player Queen The Realists I. The Witch II. The Peacock The Mountain Tomb I. To a Child Dancing in the Wind II. Two Years Later A Memory of Youth Fallen Majesty Friends The Cold Heaven That the Night Come An Appointment I. The Magi II. The Dolls A Coat Coda

The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

The Wild Swans at Coole In Memory of Major Robert Gregory An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Men Improve with the Years The Collar-Bone of a Hare Under the Round Tower Solomon to Sheba The Living Beauty A Song To a Young Beauty To a Young Girl The Scholars Tom O'Roughley The Sad Shepherd Lines Written in Dejection The Dawn On Woman The Fisherman The Hawk Memory Her Praise The People His Phoenix A Thought from Propertius Broken Dreams A Deep-Sworn Vow Presences The Balloon of the Mind To A Squirrel At Kyle-na-gno On Being Asked for a War Poem In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen Upon a Dying Lady Ego Dominus Tuus A Prayer on Going into my House The Phases of the Moon The Cat and the Moon The Saint and the Hunchback Two Songs Of A Fool Another Song of a Fool The Double Vision of Michael Robartes

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)

Michael Robartes and the Dancer Solomon and the Witch An Image from a Past Life Under Saturn Sixteen Dead Men The Rose Tree On a Political Prisoner The Leaders of the Crowd Towards Break of Day Demon and Beast A Prayer For My Daughter A Meditation in Time of War To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee Notes Advertisements