CONTENTS
PAGEThe Countess Cathleen1The Rose—To the Rose upon the Rood of Time109Fergus and the Druid111The Death of Cuchulain114The Rose of the World119The Rose of Peace120The Rose of Battle121A Faery Song123The Lake Isle of Innisfree124A Cradle Song125The Pity of Love126The Sorrow of Love127When You are Old128The White Birds129A Dream of Death131A Dream of a Blessed Spirit132Who goes with Fergus133The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland134The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists137The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner139The Ballad of Father Gilligan140The Two Trees143To Ireland in the Coming Times145The Land of Heart's Desire149Crossways—The Song of the Happy Shepherd197The Sad Shepherd200The Cloak, The Boat, and the Shoes202Anashuya and Vijaya203The Indian upon God209The Indian to his Love211The Falling of the Leaves213Ephemera214The Madness of King Goll216The Stolen Child220To an Isle in the Water223Down by the Salley Gardens224The Meditation of the Old Fisherman225The Ballad of Father O'Hart226The Ballad of Moll Magee229The Ballad of the Foxhunter232The Wanderings of Usheen235Glossary and Notes299
TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE
While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,My heart would brim with dreams about the timesWhen we bent down above the fading coals;And talked of the dark folk, who live in soulsOf passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;And of the wayward twilight companies,Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content,Because their blossoming dreams have never bentUnder the fruit of evil and of good:And of the embattled flaming multitudeWho rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,And with the clashing of their sword blades makeA rapturous music, till the morning break,And the white hush end all, but the loud beatOf their long wings, the flash of their white feet.