Book: The Rose

Though dated by Yeats as 1893, The Rose as a collection was not introduced until 1895.






`Sero te amavi, Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova! Sero te amavi' - S. Augustine

TO LIONEL JOHNSON

• 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 times

  16 lines, 1 comment
• The Countess Cathleen In Paradise

  ALL the heavy days are over;
  Leave the body's coloured pride

  16 lines, 3 comments
• A Cradle Song

  THE angels are stooping
  Above your bed;

  12 lines, 11 comments
• When You Are Old

  When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
  And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

  12 lines, 5 comments
• A Dream Of Death

  I DREAMED that one had died in a strange place
  Near no accustomed hand,

  12 lines, 4 comments
• The Sorrow Of Love

  THE brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
  The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,

  12 lines, 1 comment
• A Faery Song

  Thousands of years, thousands of years,
  If all were told:

  18 lines, 1 comment
• The Rose Of Peace

  IF Michael, leader of God's host
  When Heaven and Hell are met,

  16 lines
• The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland

  HE stood among a crowd at Dromahair;
  His heart hung all upon a silken dress,

  48 lines, 1 comment
• The Two Trees

  BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
  The holy tree is growing there;

  40 lines
• Who Goes With Fergus?

  WHO will go drive with Fergus now,
  And pierce the deep wood's woven shade,

  12 lines, 11 comments
• The Ballad Of Father Gilligan

  The old priest Peter Gilligan
  Was weary night and day

  48 lines, 3 comments
• Fergus And The Druid

  Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks,
  And you have changed and flowed from shape to

  45 lines, 1 comment
• The Rose Of The World

  WHO dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
  For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,

  15 lines, 1 comment
• The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

  I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
  And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

  11 lines, 17 comments
• To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time

  Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
  Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:

  24 lines
• The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner

  ALTHOUGH I shelter from the rain
  Under a broken tree,

  18 lines, 6 comments
• To Ireland In The Coming Times

  I know, that I would accounted be
  True brother of a company

  47 lines
• The Pity Of Love

  A PITY beyond all telling
  Is hid in the heart of love:

  8 lines, 1 comment
• The White Birds

  I WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the
  foam of the sea!

  24 lines, 1 comment
• The Rose Of Battle

  ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
  The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled

  35 lines
• The Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists

  There was a green branch hung with many a bell
  When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;

  24 lines

• By me, right now

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