Book: Crossways

The collection Yeats named /Crossways,/in 1889 was never published as a book in it's own right. These poems were written when as a poet, yeats claims, he was trying many pathways.

• Anashuya And Vijaya

  A i{little Indian temple} in i{the Golden Age.} Around it i{a garden;}
  i{around that the forest. Anashuya, the young priestess, kneelinq}

  114 lines
• Ephemera

  "YOUR eyes that once were never weary of mine
  Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids,

  27 lines, 4 comments
• The Falling Of The Leaves

  AUTUMN is over the long leaves that love us,
  And over the mice in the barley sheaves;

  7 lines
• The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman

  YOU waves, though you dance by my feet like children
  at play,

  16 lines
• The Ballad Of Father O'Hart

  GOOD Father John O'Hart
  In penal days rode out

  40 lines
• The Ballad Of The Foxhunter

  'Lay me in a cushioned chair;
  Carry me, ye four,

  48 lines
• The Song Of The Happy Shepherd

  THE woods of Arcady are dead,
  And over is their antique joy;

  57 lines
• Down By The Salley Gardens

  DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
  She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white

  12 lines, 6 comments
• The Indian To His Love

  THE island dreams under the dawn
  And great boughs drop tranquillity;

  21 lines, 1 comment
• The Ballad Of Moll Magee

  COME round me, little childer;
  There, don't fling stones at me

  56 lines
• The Indian Upon God

  I PASSED along the water's edge below the humid trees,
  My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my

  27 lines
• The Sad Shepherd

  THERE was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend,
  And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,

  29 lines
• To An Isle In The Water

  SHY one, Shy one,
  Shy one of my heart,

  16 lines, 2 comments
• The Stolen Child

  WHERE dips the rocky highland
  Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,

  57 lines, 18 comments
• The Madness Of King Goll

  I SAT on cushioned otter-skin:
  My word was law from Ith to Emain,

  72 lines
• The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes

  'What do you make so fair and bright?'
  'I make the cloak of Sorrow:

  15 lines

• By me, right now

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