The Poems of W.B. Yeats

Peter McDonald is an Irish poet and critic, whose literary criticism includes Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (2002) and Sound Intentions: The Workings of Rhyme in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (2012). He has edited the Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, and is the author of numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry. His own Collected Poems appeared in 2012. He is Professor of British and Irish Poetry at the University of Oxford, and Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry at Christ Church, Oxford.

1. [‘A Flower Has Blossomed…’] 2. The Old Grey Man 3. Child’s Play 4. [‘I Sat Upon a High Gnarled Root’] 5. [‘A Double Moon or More Ago’] 6. [Fragment of Opening Scene of an Abandoned Verse-Play] 7. The Priest of Pan 8. Inscription for a Christmas Card 9. Pan 10. [‘The World is but a Strange Romance’] 11. Sunrise 12. The Dell 13. [‘Tower Wind-Beaten, Grim’] 14. [Dramatic Fragment] 15. Vivien and Time 16. [‘As Me Upon My Way the Tram-Car Whirled’] 17. [‘Death Hath Ta’en My Child to Nurse’] 18. [‘My Song Thou Knowest of a Dreaming Castle’] 19. [Speech From the Opening of an Abandoned Dramatic Poem] 20. [‘When to Its End O’er-Ripened July Nears’’] 21. Fragment (‘I Raise to Thee No Praying Voice...’) 22. [‘The Children Play in White and Red’] 23. [‘Behold the Man’] 24. [‘A Soul of the Fountain Spake Me a Word’] 25. [‘A Sound Came Floating, an Unearthly Sound’] 26. Love and Death 27. Unused scene from Love and Death 28. Song of the Faeries 29. [‘Mong Meadows of Sweet Grain’] 30. Sansloy – Sansfoy – Sansjoy 31. [Love and Sorrow] 32. Mosada 33. [‘For Clapping Hands of All Men’s Love’] 34. The Magpie 35. The Island of Statues: An Arcadian Faery Tale – in Two Acts 36. ‘The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes’ 37. [‘Truth Is Bold, But Falsehood Fears’ ] 38. Fragment (‘And Helen’s Eyes’) 39. Love’s Decay 40. The Field Mouse 41. Time and the Witch Vivien 42. [Hushed in the Vale of Dajestan’] 43. An Old and Solitary One 44. A Song of Sunset 45. Love and Death 46. [‘The Dew Comes Dropping’] 47. From The Village of the Elms 48. The Seeker: A Dramatic Poem – In Two Scenes 49. The Song of the Happy Shepherd 50. In a Drawing-Room 51. Life 52. The Sad Shepherd 53. The Two Titans: A Political Poem 54. [‘There Sings a Rose by the Rim’] 55. The Priest and the Fairy 56. Kanva on Himself 57. On Mr. Nettleship’s Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy 58. The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 59. The Falling of the Leaves 60. The Stolen Child 61. To – (Remembrance) 62. The Indian Upon God 63. An Indian Song 64. Song of Spanish Insurgents 65. Quatrains and Aphorisms 66. The Fairy Pedant 67. A Dawn-Song 68. Anashuya and Vijaya 69. King Goll: An Irish Legend 70. [‘How Beautiful Thy Colours Are…’] 71. The Ballad of Moll Magee 72. How Ferencz Renya Kept Silent: Hungary, 1848 73. Love Song: From the Gaelic 74. She Who Dwelt Among the Sycamores: A Fancy 75. The Protestants’ Leap 76. Ephemera 77. The Fairy Doctor 78. Girl’s Song 79. [‘Wherever in the Wastes of Wrinkling Sand’] 80. A Lover’s Quarrel Among the Fairies 81. The Wanderings of Oisin and How a Demon Trapped Him 82. King Goll (Third Century) 83. A Legend 84. Down by the Salley Gardens 85. The Ballad of Father O’ Hart 86. The Phantom Ship 87. Street Dancers 88. To an Isle in the Water 89. The Lake Isle of Innisfree 90. In the Firelight 91. The Outlaw’s Bridal: Ireland, 16** 92. In Church 93. A Summer Evening 94. The Ballad of the Foxhunter 95. Who Goes with Fergus? Appendix 1: Contents of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) Appendix 2: Initial prose draft of The Island of Statues