1895.

Poems | By W. B. Yeats | London: Published by T. Fisher Unwin. | No. XI: Paternoster Buildings:MDCCCXCV[The whole forms part of a design by H.G.F.]

Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 288. Cloth.CONTENTS.Preface.(Dated Sligo, March 24, 1895.)To Some I have talked with by the fire.Originally appeared inThe Bookman, May, 1895.The Wanderings of Usheen.[F]The Countess Cathleen.[G]The Land of Heart’s Desire.The Rose:To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.[G]Fergus and the Druid.[G]The Death of Cuhoolin.[G]The Rose of the World.[G]The Rose of Peace.[G]The Rose of Battle.[G]A Faery Song.[G]The Lake Isle of Innisfree.[G]A Cradle Song.[G]The Pity of Love.[G]The Sorrow of Love.[G]When You are Old.[G]The White Birds.[G]A Dream of Death.[G]A Dream of a Blessed Spirit.Originally appeared, under the titleKathleen, inThe National Observer, October 31, 1891.The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland.[G]The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists.[G]The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner.[G]The Ballad of Father Gilligan.[G]The Two Trees.[G]To Ireland in the Coming Times.[G]Crossways:The Song of the Happy Shepherd.[F]The Sad Shepherd.[F]The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.[F](A re-writing of the first lines ofIsland of Statues.)Anashuya and Vijaya.[F]The Indian upon God.[F]The Indian to his Love.[F]The Falling of the Leaves.[F]Ephemera.[F]The Madness of King Goll.[F]The Stolen Child.[F]To an Isle in the Water.[F]Down by the Salley Gardens.[F]The Meditation of the Old Fisherman.[F]The Ballad of Father O’Hart.[G]The Ballad of Moll Magee.[F]The Ballad of the Foxhunter.[G]Glossary.

Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 288. Cloth.

Preface.(Dated Sligo, March 24, 1895.)To Some I have talked with by the fire.Originally appeared inThe Bookman, May, 1895.The Wanderings of Usheen.[F]The Countess Cathleen.[G]The Land of Heart’s Desire.The Rose:To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.[G]Fergus and the Druid.[G]The Death of Cuhoolin.[G]The Rose of the World.[G]The Rose of Peace.[G]The Rose of Battle.[G]A Faery Song.[G]The Lake Isle of Innisfree.[G]A Cradle Song.[G]The Pity of Love.[G]The Sorrow of Love.[G]When You are Old.[G]The White Birds.[G]A Dream of Death.[G]A Dream of a Blessed Spirit.Originally appeared, under the titleKathleen, inThe National Observer, October 31, 1891.The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland.[G]The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists.[G]The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner.[G]The Ballad of Father Gilligan.[G]The Two Trees.[G]To Ireland in the Coming Times.[G]Crossways:The Song of the Happy Shepherd.[F]The Sad Shepherd.[F]The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.[F](A re-writing of the first lines ofIsland of Statues.)Anashuya and Vijaya.[F]The Indian upon God.[F]The Indian to his Love.[F]The Falling of the Leaves.[F]Ephemera.[F]The Madness of King Goll.[F]The Stolen Child.[F]To an Isle in the Water.[F]Down by the Salley Gardens.[F]The Meditation of the Old Fisherman.[F]The Ballad of Father O’Hart.[G]The Ballad of Moll Magee.[F]The Ballad of the Foxhunter.[G]Glossary.

Preface.(Dated Sligo, March 24, 1895.)

To Some I have talked with by the fire.Originally appeared inThe Bookman, May, 1895.

The Wanderings of Usheen.[F]

The Countess Cathleen.[G]

The Land of Heart’s Desire.

The Rose:

To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.[G]Fergus and the Druid.[G]The Death of Cuhoolin.[G]The Rose of the World.[G]The Rose of Peace.[G]The Rose of Battle.[G]A Faery Song.[G]The Lake Isle of Innisfree.[G]A Cradle Song.[G]The Pity of Love.[G]The Sorrow of Love.[G]When You are Old.[G]The White Birds.[G]A Dream of Death.[G]A Dream of a Blessed Spirit.Originally appeared, under the titleKathleen, inThe National Observer, October 31, 1891.The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland.[G]The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists.[G]The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner.[G]The Ballad of Father Gilligan.[G]The Two Trees.[G]To Ireland in the Coming Times.[G]

To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.[G]

Fergus and the Druid.[G]

The Death of Cuhoolin.[G]

The Rose of the World.[G]

The Rose of Peace.[G]

The Rose of Battle.[G]

A Faery Song.[G]

The Lake Isle of Innisfree.[G]

A Cradle Song.[G]

The Pity of Love.[G]

The Sorrow of Love.[G]

When You are Old.[G]

The White Birds.[G]

A Dream of Death.[G]

A Dream of a Blessed Spirit.Originally appeared, under the titleKathleen, inThe National Observer, October 31, 1891.

The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland.[G]

The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists.[G]

The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner.[G]

The Ballad of Father Gilligan.[G]

The Two Trees.[G]

To Ireland in the Coming Times.[G]

Crossways:

The Song of the Happy Shepherd.[F]The Sad Shepherd.[F]The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.[F](A re-writing of the first lines ofIsland of Statues.)Anashuya and Vijaya.[F]The Indian upon God.[F]The Indian to his Love.[F]The Falling of the Leaves.[F]Ephemera.[F]The Madness of King Goll.[F]The Stolen Child.[F]To an Isle in the Water.[F]Down by the Salley Gardens.[F]The Meditation of the Old Fisherman.[F]The Ballad of Father O’Hart.[G]The Ballad of Moll Magee.[F]The Ballad of the Foxhunter.[G]

The Song of the Happy Shepherd.[F]

The Sad Shepherd.[F]

The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.[F](A re-writing of the first lines ofIsland of Statues.)

Anashuya and Vijaya.[F]

The Indian upon God.[F]

The Indian to his Love.[F]

The Falling of the Leaves.[F]

Ephemera.[F]

The Madness of King Goll.[F]

The Stolen Child.[F]

To an Isle in the Water.[F]

Down by the Salley Gardens.[F]

The Meditation of the Old Fisherman.[F]

The Ballad of Father O’Hart.[G]

The Ballad of Moll Magee.[F]

The Ballad of the Foxhunter.[G]

Glossary.

1899. Second Edition, revised.

This edition has a portrait of the author by J. B. Yeats facing title-page, the preface is re-written, and the contents re-arranged thus:—

Preface.(Dated February 24, 1899.)To Some I have talked with by the fire.The Countess Cathleen.The Rose.The Land of Heart’s Desire.Crossways.The Wanderings of Oisin.Glossary.

Preface.(Dated February 24, 1899.)To Some I have talked with by the fire.The Countess Cathleen.The Rose.The Land of Heart’s Desire.Crossways.The Wanderings of Oisin.Glossary.

Preface.(Dated February 24, 1899.)

To Some I have talked with by the fire.

The Countess Cathleen.

The Rose.

The Land of Heart’s Desire.

Crossways.

The Wanderings of Oisin.

Glossary.

1901. Third Edition, revised.

This edition has a new preface, dated January, 1901, and the note in the glossary onThe Countess Cathleenis much enlarged.

This edition has a new preface, dated January, 1901, and the note in the glossary onThe Countess Cathleenis much enlarged.


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