William Butler Yeats's Poetry, by popularity

• Baile And Aillinn

  I hardly hear the curlew cry,
  Nor the grey rush when the wind is high,

  177 lines
• The Shadowy Waters: The Shadowy Waters

  A Dramatic Poem
  The deck of an ancient ship.  At the right of the stage is the mast,

  1044 lines
• Meru

  Civilisation is hooped together, brought
  Under a rule, under the semblance of peace

  13 lines
• Now as at all times

  Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
  In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones

  7 lines
• Three Songs To The Same Tune

  I
  GRANDFATHER sang it under the gallows:

  96 lines
• The Statesman's Holiday

  I LIVED among great houses,
  Riches drove out rank,

  39 lines
• From A Full Moon In March

  PARNELL'S FUNERAL
  UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd.

  44 lines
• Coole Park 1929

  I MEDITATE upon a swallow's flight,
  Upon a aged woman and her house,

  79 lines
• The Gift Of Harun Al-Rashid

  KUSTA BEN LUKA is my name, I write
  To Abd Al-Rabban; fellow-roysterer once,

  203 lines
• The New Faces

  IF you, that have grown old, were the first dead,
  Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime

  8 lines, 2 comments
• Vacillation

  Between extremities
  Man runs his course;

  103 lines
• John Kinsella's Lament For Mr. Mary Moore

  A BLOODY and a sudden end,
  Gunshot or a noose,

  36 lines
• The Pilgrim

  I FASTED for some forty days on bread and buttermilk,
  For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,

  37 lines
• Old Tom Again

  Things out of perfection sail,
  And all their swelling canvas wear,

  6 lines
• The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers

  THE Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows
  Have pulled the Immortal Rose;

  18 lines
• He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved

  Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,
  And dream about the great and their pride;

  5 lines, 1 comment
• Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?

  Why should not old men be mad?
  Some have known a likely lad

  20 lines, 1 comment
• Tom At Cruachan

  On Cruachan's plain slept he
  That must sing in a rhyme

  6 lines
• Owen Aherne And His Dancers

  A STRANGE thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
  Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,

  32 lines
• The Saint And The Hunchback

  i{Hunchback.} Stand up and lift your hand and bless
  A man that finds great bitterness

  17 lines
• Alternative Song For The Severed Head In `The King Of The Great Clock Tower'

  Saddle and ride, I heard a man say,
  Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea,

  21 lines
• The Dancer At Cruachan And Cro-Patrick

  I, proclaiming that there is
  Among birds or beasts or men

  8 lines
• The Man And The Echo

  i{Man}
  IN a cleft that's christened Alt

  53 lines
• His Bargain

  Who talks of Plato's spindle;
  What set it whirling round?

  12 lines
• The Unappeasable Host

  THE Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
  And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,

  13 lines
• Colonus' Praise

  i{Chorus.} Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise
  The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies,

  32 lines
• The Fairy Pendant

  Scene: A circle of Druidic stones
  First Fairy: Afar from our lawn and our levee,

  41 lines
• Shepherd And Goatherd

  Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year.
  I wished before it ceased.

  134 lines
• The Blessed

  CUMHAL called out, bending his head,
  Till Dathi came and stood,

  39 lines
• Responsibilities - Introduction

  Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
  Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end,

  22 lines

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