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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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Poems found: 490

A COAT

A CRADLE SONG

A DEEP-SWORN VOW

A DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL

A DREAM OF DEATH

A DREAM OF DEATH (VARIANT VERSION)

A DRINKING SONG

A DRUNKEN MAN'S PRAISE OF SOBRIETY

A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID

A FRIEND'S ILLNESS

A FULL MOON IN MARCH

A MEDITATION IN TIME OF WAR

A MEMORY OF YOUTH

A POET TO HIS BELOVED

A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER

A PRAYER FOR MY SON

A PRAYER ON GOING INTO MY HOUSE

A SONG

A STICK OF INCENSE

A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS

A WOMAN HOMER SUNG

A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 2. BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE

A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION

A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 1. FATHER AND CHILD

A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH

A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION

ACRE OF GRASS

ADAM'S CURSE

AEDH THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED

AFTER LONG SILENCE

AGAINST UNWORTHY PRAISE

ALL SOULS' NIGHT

ALL SOULS' NIGHT; EPILOGUE TO 'A VISION'

ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME

ALTERNATIVE SONG FOR THE SEVERED HEAD IN 'KING OF GREAT ...'

AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN

AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN

AN ACRE OF GRASS

AN APPOINTMENT

AN IMAGE FROM A PAST LIFE

AN INDIAN SONG

AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH

ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA

ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL

APPARITIONS

ARE YOU CONTENT?

ARE YOU CONTENT?

AT ALGECIRAS - A MEDITATION UPON DEATH

AT GALWAY RACES (1)

AT GALWAY RACES (2)

AT GALWAY RACES (2)

AT THE ABBEY THEATRE (IMITATED FROM RONSARD)

AT THE GREY ROUND OF THE HILL

AT THE HAWK'S WELL, SELS.

BAILE AND AILLINN

BEAUTIFUL LOFTY THINGS: O'LEARY'S NOBLE HEAD

BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED

BLACK TOWER

BLOOD AND THE MOON

BROKEN DREAMS

BRONZE HEAD

BROWN PENNY

BYZANTIUM

BYZANTIUM

CAT AND THE MOON

CHAMBERMAID'S FIRST SONG

CHAMBERMAID'S SECOND SONG

CHOICE

CHURCH AND STATE

CHURCH AND STATE

CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION

COLONEL MARTIN

COME GATHER ROUND ME, PARNELLITES

COME GATHER ROUND ME, PARNELLITES

COOLE PARK AND BALLYLEE, 1931

COOLE PARK, 1929

COOLE PARK, 1929

CRAZED GIRL

CRAZED MOON

CRAZY JANE AND JACK THE JOURNEYMAN

CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP

CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS

CRAZY JANE ON GOD

CRAZY JANE ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

CRAZY JANE ON THE MOUNTAIN

CRAZY JANE REPROVED

CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP

CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP

CUCHULAIN COMFORTED

CUCHULAIN COMFORTED

CUCHULAIN'S FIGHT WITH THE SEA

CURSE OF CROMWELL

DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO-PATRICK

DEATH

DEATH

DEATH OF CUCHULAIN

DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (1)

DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS (2)

DEIRDRE

DELPHIC ORACLE UPON PLOTINUS

DEMON AND BEAST

DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL

DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS

DRUNKEN MAN'S PRAISE OF SOBRIETY

EASTER 1916

EGO DOMINUS TUUS

EPHEMERA

FALLEN MAJESTY

FATHER GILLIGAN

FERGUS AND THE DRUID

FOOL BY THE WAYSIDE

FOR ANNE GREGORY

FOR ANNE GREGORY

FRAGMENT

FRAGMENT

FRIENDS

GIFT OF HARUN AL-RASHID

GIRL'S SONG

GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS

GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS

GREAT DAY

GREEN HAMLET; AN HEROIC FARCE

GYRES

HANRAHAN LAMENTS BECAUSE OF HIS WANDERINGS

HANRAHAN SPEAKS TO THE LOVERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS

HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES

HE HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE

HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED

HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY

HE REPROVES THE CURLEW

HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS

HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY

HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF ... HEAVEN

HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN

HER ANXIETY

HER DREAM

HER PRAISE

HERO, THE GIRL, AND THE FOOL

HIGH TALK

HIGH TALK

HIS BARGAIN

HIS CONFIDENCE

HIS DREAM

HIS PHOENIX

HIS WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD

HOUND VOICE

HOUND VOICE

HOUR BEFORE DAWN (2)

I AM OF IRELAND

I AM OF IRELAND

IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE

IN MEMORY OF ALFRED POLLEXFEN

IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ

IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ

IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY

IN TARA'S HALLS

IN THE SEVEN WOODS

INTO THE TWILIGHT

JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE

JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE

KING AND NO KING

LADY'S FIRST SONG

LADY'S SECOND SONG

LADY'S THIRD SONG

LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON)

LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON)

LEDA AND THE SWAN

LEDA AND THE SWAN

LET ALL THINGS PASS AWAY

LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION

LONELY THE SEA-BIRD LIES AT HER REST

LONELY THE SEA-BIRD LIES AT HER REST

LONG-LEGGED FLY

LONG-LEGGED FLY

LOVE'S LONELINESS

LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS

LOVER'S SONG

LULLABY

LULLABY

MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW

MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW

MAID QUIET

MAN AND THE ECHO

MAN YOUNG AND OLD

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE

MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE

MEMORY

MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS

MERMAID

MERU

MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER

MICHAEL ROBARTES BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE

MODEL FOR THE LAUREATE

MOHINI CHATTERJEE

MOTHER OF GOD

MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED

NATIVITY

NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART, FOR LOVE

NEW FACES

NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE

NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN

NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER

NO SECOND TROY

O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG

OIL AND BLOOD

OLD MEMORY

OLD STONE CROSS

OLD TOM AGAIN

ON A PICTURE OF A BLACK CENTAUR BY EDMUND DULAC

ON A POLITICAL PRISONER

ON BAILE'S STRAND

ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM

ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY JOINED AGITATION ..

ON THOSE THAT HATED 'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD'

ON WOMAN

OWEN AHERNE AND HIS DANCERS

PARNELL

PARNELL

PARNELL'S FUNERAL

PARNELL'S FUNERAL

PAUDEEN

PEACE

PILGRIM

PLAYER QUEEN (AN UNFINISHED PLAY), SELS.

POLITICS

POLITICS

PRAYER FOR MY SON

PRAYER FOR OLD AGE

PRESENCES

PURGATORY

QUARREL IN OLD AGE

RECONCILIATION

RED HANRAHAN'S SONG ABOUT IRELAND

REMORSE FOR INTEMPERATE SPEECH

REPRISALS

REPRISALS

RESPONSIBILITIES: PROLOGUE

RESULTS OF THOUGHT

ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES')

ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES')

RUNNING TO PARADISE

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

SEPTEMBER 1913

SEVEN SAGES

SHEPHERD AND GOATHERD

SIXTEEN DEAD MEN

SOLOMON AND THE WITCH

SOLOMON TO SHEBA

SPILT MILK

SPIRIT MEDIUM

SPUR

STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY

STATISTICS

STATUES

STICK OF INCENSE

STREAM AND SUN AT GLENDALOUGH

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBB AT THE TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBH AT TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 10. CONJUNCTIONS

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 10. CONJUNCTIONS

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 12. MERU

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 2. RIBB DENOUNCES PATRICK

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 2. RIBH DENOUNCES PATRICK

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBB IN ECSTASY

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBH IN ECSTASY

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 6. HE AND SHE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 6. HE AND SHE

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 7. WHAT MAGIC DRUM?

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 7. WHAT MAGIC DRUM?

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 8. WHENCE HAD THEY COME

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 8. WHENCE HAD THEY COME?

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 9. THE FOUR AGES OF MAN

SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 9. THE FOUR AGES OF MAN

SWEET DANCER

SWIFT'S EPITAPH

SWIFT'S EPITAPH

SYMBOLS

THAT THE NIGHT COME

THE ARROW

THE BALLAD OF FATHER O'HART

THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE

THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER

THE BALLOON OF THE MIND

THE BLESSED

THE CAP AND BELLS

THE CAT AND THE MOON

THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION

THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES

THE COLD HEAVEN

THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE

THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE

THE DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO-PATRICK

THE DAWN

THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN

THE DOLLS

THE DOUBLE VISION OF MICHAEL ROBARTES

THE EVERLASTING VOICES

THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES

THE FASCINATION OF WHAT'S DIFFICULT

THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY

THE FISH

THE FISHERMAN

THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED

THE GREAT DAY

THE GREY ROCK

THE HAPPY TOWNLAND

THE HAWK

THE HEART OF THE WOMAN

THE HOST OF THE AIR

THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE

THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN (1)

THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE

THE INDIAN UPON GOD

THE ISLAND OF SLEEP

THE KING'S THRESHOLD

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (1)

THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (2)

THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

THE LEADERS OF THE CROWD

THE LIVING BEAUTY

THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS

THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE

THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIENDS FOR OLD FRIENDS

THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART

THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL

THE MAGI

THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND

THE MASK

THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN

THE MOODS

THE MOTHER OF GOD

THE MOUNTAIN TOMB

THE MOUNTAIN TOMB: 1. TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND

THE MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED

THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE

THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER

THE PEACOCK

THE PEOPLE

THE PHASES OF THE MOON

THE PILGRIM

THE PITY OF LOVE

THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES

THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS

THE RAGGED WOOD

THE REALISTS

THE ROSE OF BATTLE

THE ROSE OF PEACE

THE ROSE OF THE WORLD

THE ROSE TREE

THE SAD SHEPHERD

THE SAINT AND THE HUNCHBACK

THE SCHOLARS

THE SECOND COMING

THE SECRET ROSE

THE SHADOWY WATERS: A DRAMATIC POEM

THE SHADOWY WATERS: INTRODUCTORY LINES

THE SHADOWY WATERS: THE HARP OF AENGUS

THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD

THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER

THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS

THE SORROW OF LOVE (1)

THE SORROW OF LOVE (2)

THE SPUR

THE STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY

THE STOLEN CHILD

THE THREE BEGGARS

THE THREE HERMITS

THE TOWER

THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION

THE TWO KINGS

THE TWO TREES

THE UNAPPEASABLE HOST

THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG

THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN

THE WHITE BIRDS

THE WICKED HAWTHORN TREE

THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN

THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE

THE WITCH

THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS

THESE ARE THE CLOUDS ABOUT THE FALLEN SUN

THOSE DANCING DAYS ARE GONE

THOSE IMAGES

THREE BUSHES

THREE MARCHING SONGS: 1

THREE MARCHING SONGS: 2

THREE MARCHING SONGS: 3

THREE MONUMENTS

THREE MOVEMENTS

THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 1

THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 2

THREE SONGS TO THE ONE BURDEN: 3

THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 1

THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 2

THREE SONGS TO THE SAME TUNE: 3

THREE THINGS

TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND: 2

TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING

TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ...

TO A SHADE

TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-NO

TO A WEALTHY MAN

TO A YOUNG BEAUTY

TO A YOUNG GIRL

TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER

TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1)

TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2)

TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2)

TO DOROTHY WELLESLEY

TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR

TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES

TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE

TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME

TOM AT CRUACHAN

TOM O'ROUGHLEY

TOM THE LUNATIC

TOM THE LUNATIC

TOWARDS BREAK OF DAY

TOWER

TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 1

TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2

TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2

TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1

TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2

TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE'S SAKE: 1

TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE'S SAKE: 2

UNDER BEN BULBEN

UNDER BEN BULBEN

UNDER SATURN

UNDER THE MOON

UNDER THE ROUND TOWER

UPON A DYING LADY

UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION

VACILLATION

VACILLATION: 8

VERONICA'S NAPKIN

VISION, SELS.

VOICE

WATERS OF THE BOYNE

WHAT THEN?

WHAT WAS LOST

WHAT WAS LOST

WHEEL

WHEN HELEN LIVED

WHEN YOU ARE OLD

WHERE MY BOOKS GO

WHILE I, FROM THAT RED-THROATED WHISPERER

WHO GOES WITH FERGUS?

WHY SHOULD NOT OLD MEN BE MAD?

WICKED HAWTHORN TREE

WILD OLD WICKED MAN

WISDOM

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 1. FATHER AND CHILD

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 10. MEETING

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 11. FROM THE 'ANTIGONE'

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 2. BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 5. CONSOLATION

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 6. CHOSEN

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 7. PARTING

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 8. HER VISION IN THE WOOD

WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION

WOMAN'S BEAUTY IS LIKE A WHITE FRAIL BIRD

WORDS

YOUNG MAN'S SONG

YOUTH AND AGE



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