1906.
Poems, 1899-1905 [in red] | By W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen | Dublin: Maunsel & Co., | Ltd. | 1906.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xvi and 280. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
Preface. [Dated In the Seven Woods, 18 May, 1906.]
I walked among the seven woods of Coole.[I]
The Harp of Aengus.[I]
The Shadowy Waters. [A new version.]
On Baile’s Strand. [A new version.] The Song of the Women (pp. 102-104) originally appeared, under the title Against Witchcraft, in The Shanachie [No. I., Spring, 1906].
In the Seven Woods:
In the Seven Woods.[J]
The Old Age of Queen Maeve.[J]
Baile and Aillinn.[J]
The Arrow.[J]
The Folly of being Comforted.[J]
Old Memory. Originally appeared in Wayfarer’s Love, 1904.
Never Give all the Heart. Originally appeared in McClure’s Magazine, December, 1905.
The Withering of the Boughs.[I]
Adam’s Curse.[I]
The Song of Red Hanrahan.[I]
The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water.[I]
Under the Moon.[I]
The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and themselves.[I]
The Happy Townland.[I]
The Entrance of Deirdre. Two verses of this poem originally appeared, under the title Queen Edaine, in McClure’s Magazine, September, 1905, and the whole poem under the title The Praise of Deirdre, in The Shanachie [No. I., Spring, 1906].
The King’s Threshold. [A new version.]
Notes.