THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS

By William Butler Yeats

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The Hosting of the Sidhe	1
The Everlasting Voices	3
The Moods	4
Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart	5
The Host of the Air	7
Breasal the Fisherman	10
A Cradle Song	11
Into the Twilight	13
The Song of Wandering Aengus	15
The Song of the old Mother	17
The Fiddler of Dooney	18
The Heart of the Woman	20
Aedh Laments the Loss of Love	21
Mongan laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved	22
Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace	24
Hanrahan reproves the Curlew	26
Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty	27
A Poet to his Beloved	29
Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes	30
To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear	31
The Cap and Bells	32
The Valley of the Black Pig	35
Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many Moods	37
Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers	40
Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty	42
Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge	43
Aedh thinks of those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved	44
The Blessed	45
The Secret Rose	47
Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings	51
The Travail of Passion	52
The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends	54
Hanrahan speaks to the Lovers of his Songs in coming Days	55
Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers	57
Aedh wishes his Beloved were Dead	59
Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	60
Mongan thinks of his past Greatness	61
Notes	65

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The Wild Swans at Coole	1
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory	4
An Irish Airman foresees his Death	13
Men improve with the Years	14
The Collar-Bone of a Hare	15
Under the Round Tower	17
Solomon to Sheba	19
The Living Beauty	21
A Song	22
To a Young Beauty	23
To a Young Girl	24
The Scholars	25
Tom O'Roughley	26
The Sad Shepherd	27
Lines written in Dejection	39
The Dawn	40
On Woman	41
The Fisherman	44
The Hawk	46
Memory	47
Her Praise	48
The People	50
His Phoenix	54
A Thought from Propertius	58
Broken Dreams	59
A Deep-Sworn Vow	63
Presences	64
The Balloon of the Mind	66
To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno	67
On being asked for a War Poem	68
In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen	69
Upon a Dying Lady	72
Ego Dominus Tuus	79
A Prayer on going into my House	86
The Phases of the Moon	88
The Cat and the Moon	102
The Saint and the Hunchback	104
Two Songs of a Fool	106
Another Song of a Fool	108
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes	109
Note	115

WHAT IS ‘POPULAR POETRY’?	1
SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY	16
MAGIC	29
THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS	70
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY’S POETRY	90
AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON	142
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION	168
WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY	176
SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING	226
THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY	237
THE THEATRE	257
THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE	270
THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY	296
THE MOODS	306
THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX	308
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES	312
IRELAND AND THE ARTS	320
THE GALWAY PLAINS	333
EMOTION OF MULTITUDE	339

Prophet, Priest and King	Page 1
Personality and the Intellectual Essences	5
The Musician and the Orator	9
A Banjo Player	10
The Looking-glass	11
The Tree of Life	12
The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales	15
The Play of Modern Manners	16
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own	18
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet	20
Concerning Saints and Artists	24
The Subject Matter of Drama	27
The Two Kinds of Asceticism	30
In the Serpent’s Mouth	32
The Black and the White Arrows	33
His Mistress’s Eyebrows	33
The Tresses of the Hair	35
A Tower on the Apennine	36
The Thinking of the Body	37
Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art	39
The Holy Places	41

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Thoughts on Lady Gregory’s Translations
I. Cuchulain and his Cycle	1
II. Fion and his Cycle	12

Preface to the First Edition of the Well of the Saints	36

Discoveries
Prophet, Priest and King	49
Personality and the Intellectual Essences	56
The Musician and the Orator	61
A Guitar Player	63
The Looking-glass	65
The Tree of Life	67
The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales	71
The Play of Modern Manners	73
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own?	76
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet	79
Concerning Saints and Artists	85
The Subject Matter of Drama	89
The Two Kinds of Asceticism	94
In the Serpent’s Mouth	97
The Black and the White Arrows	99
His Mistress’s Eyebrows	100
The Tresses of the Hair	103
A Tower on the Apennines	104
The Thinking of the Body	106
Religious Belief Necessary to Religious Art	109
The Holy Places	113

Poetry and Tradition	116

Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations	139

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Time	146

The Tragic Theatre	196

John Shawe-Taylor	208

Edmund Spenser	213

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Book I
Four Years 1887-1891	3

Book II
Ireland after the Fall of Parnell	83

Book III
Hodos Camelionis	135

Book IV
The Tragic Generation	157

Book V
The Stirring of the Bones	225

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Responsibilities, 1912-1914—
	Introductory Rhymes	1
	The Grey Rock	3
	The Two Kings	11
	To a Wealthy Man	29
	September 1913	32
	To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing	34
	Paudeen	35
	To a Shade	36
	When Helen Lived	39
	The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,'—1907	40
	The Three Beggars	41
	The Three Hermits	45
	Beggar to Beggar cried	47
	The Well and the Tree	49
	Running to Paradise	50
	The Hour before Dawn	52
	The Player Queen	59
	The Realists	61
	The Witch	62
	The Peacock	63
	The Mountain Tomb	64
	To a Child dancing in the Wind	66
	A Memory of Youth	68
	Fallen Majesty	70
	Friends	71
	The Cold Heaven	73
	That the Night come	75
	An Appointment	76
	The Magi	77
	The Dolls	78
	A Coat	80
	Closing Rhymes	81
From the Green Helmet and other Poems, 1909-1912—
	His Dream	85
	A Woman Homer sung	87
	The Consolation	89
	No Second Troy	91
	Reconciliation	92
	King and No King	94
	Peace	96
	Against Unworthy Praise	97
	The Fascination of What's Difficult	99
	A Drinking Song	101
	The Coming of Wisdom with Time	102
	On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians	103
	To a Poet	104
	The Mask	105
	Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation	106
	At the Abbey Theatre	108
	These are the Clouds	110
	At Galway Races	112
	A Friend's Illness	113
	All Things can tempt me	114
	The Young Man's Song	115
The Hour-Glass—1912		117
Notes		181