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Book: The Wild Swans at Coole

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  • A Prayer On Going Into My House
    GOD grant a blessing on this tower and cottage
    And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled,
    16 lines, 3 comments
  • A Song
    I THOUGHT no more was needed
    Youth to polong
    18 lines, 4 comments
  • In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen
    FIVE-AND-TWENTY years have gone
    Since old William pollexfen
    39 lines, 1 comment
  • In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory
    Now that we're almost settled in our house
    I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us
    96 lines
  • The Balloon Of The Mind
    HANDS, do what you're bid:
    Bring the balloon of the mind
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • The Wild Swans At Coole
    THE trees are in their autumn beauty,
    The woodland paths are dry,
    30 lines, 10 comments
  • Broken Dreams
    THERE is grey in your hair.
    Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • The People
    The daily spite of this unmannerly town,
    Where who has served the most is most defaned,
    38 lines, 1 comment
  • Lines Written In Dejection
    WHEN have I last looked on
    The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
    11 lines, 2 comments
  • Under The Round Tower
    ALTHOUGH I'd lie lapped up in linen
    A deal I'd sweat and little earn
    30 lines
  • Ego Dominus Tuus
    i{Hic.} On the grey sand beside the shallow stream
    Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still
    85 lines
  • Shepherd And Goatherd
    Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year.
    I wished before it ceased.
    134 lines
  • Her Praise
    SHE is foremost of those that I would hear praised.
    I have gone about the house, gone up and down
    18 lines
  • The Saint And The Hunchback
    i{Hunchback.} Stand up and lift your hand and bless
    A man that finds great bitterness
    17 lines
  • His Phoenix
    THERE is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain,
    And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard
    53 lines
  • To A Young Girl
    MY dear, my dear, I know
    More than another
    11 lines
  • Memory
    ONE had a lovely face,
    And two or three had charm,
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • On Being Asked For A War Poem
    I THINK it better that in times like these
    A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth
    5 lines, 4 comments
  • Men Improve With The Years
    I AM worn out with dreams;
    A weather-worn, marble triton
    18 lines, 4 comments
  • A Deep Sworn Vow
    Others because you did not keep
    That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
    6 lines, 9 comments
  • The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes
    I
    ON the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye
    126 lines
  • The Living Beauty
    I BADE, because the wick and oil are spent
    And frozen are the channels of the blood,
    10 lines
  • On Woman
    MAY God be praised for woman
    That gives up all her mind,
    43 lines
  • The Phases Of The Moon
    i{An old man cocked his car upon a bridge;}
    i{He and his friend, their faces to the South,}
    149 lines
  • Presences
    THIS night has been so strange that it seemed
    As if the hair stood up on my head.
    14 lines
  • The Scholars
    BALD heads forgetful of their sins,
    Old, learned, respectable bald heads
    12 lines
  • A Thought From Propertius
    SHE might, so noble from head
    To great shapely knees
    8 lines
  • To A Young Beauty
    DEAR fellow-artist, why so free
    With every sort of company,
    18 lines
  • Solomon To Sheba
    SANG Solomon to Sheba,
    And kissed her dusky face,
    24 lines
  • Tom O'Roughley
    "And if my dearest friend were dead
    I'd dance a measure on his grave.'
    16 lines
  • The Cat And The Moon
    THE cat went here and there
    And the moon spun round like a top,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Upon A Dying Lady
    I
    i{Her Courtesy}
    87 lines
  • The Collar-Bone Of A Hare
    WOULD I could cast a sad on the water
    Where many a king has gone
    16 lines
  • An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
    I know that I shall meet my fate
    Somewhere among the clouds above;
    15 lines, 13 comments
  • The Dawn
    I WOULD be ignorant as the dawn
    That has looked down
    14 lines
  • Two Songs Of A Fool
    I
    A speckled cat and a tame hare
    34 lines
  • The Fisherman
    ALTHOUGH I can see him still.
    The freckled man who goes
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Another Song Of A Fool
    This great purple butterfly,
    In the prison of my hands,
    12 lines
  • The Hawk
    "CALL down the hawk from the air;
    Let him be hooded or caged
    18 lines
  • To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No
    Come play with me;
    Why should you run
    8 lines
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