William Butler Yeats's Poetry, by title

• "Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,"

  III
  Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,

  13 lines, 1 comment
• A Bronze Head

  HERE at right of the entrance this bronze head,
  Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye,

  29 lines, 7 comments
• A Coat

  I MADE my song a coat
  Covered with embroideries

  9 lines, 16 comments
• A Cradle Song

  THE angels are stooping
  Above your bed;

  12 lines, 11 comments
• A Crazed Girl

  THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
  Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

  14 lines, 7 comments
• A Deep Sworn Vow

  Others because you did not keep
  That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;

  6 lines, 9 comments
• A Dialogue Of Self And Soul

  My Soul I summon to the winding ancient stair;
  Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,

  75 lines, 5 comments
• A Dramatic Poem

  First Sailor. Has he not led us into these waste seas
      For long enough?

  1032 lines
• A Dream Of A Blessed Spirit

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

  19 lines, 4 comments
• A Dream Of Death

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

  12 lines, 4 comments
• A Drinking Song

  Wine comes in at the mouth
  And love comes in at the eye;

  5 lines, 2 comments
• A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety

  COME swish around, my pretty punk,
  And keep me dancing still

  16 lines, 1 comment
• A Faery Song

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

  18 lines, 1 comment
• A First Confession

  I admit the briar
  Entangled in my hair

  18 lines, 3 comments
• A Friend's Illness

  SICKNESS brought me this
  Thought, in that scale of his:

  7 lines
• A Last Confession

  What lively lad most pleasured me
  Of all that with me lay?

  24 lines, 3 comments
• A Lover's Quarrel Among the Fairies

  A moonlight moor. Fairies leading a child.
  Male Fairies: Do not fear us, earthly maid!

  58 lines
• A Man Young And Old - Complete

  Though nurtured like the sailing moon
  In beauty's murderous brood,

  178 lines
• A Man Young And Old: I. First Love

  Though nurtured like the sailing moon
  In beauty's murderous brood,

  18 lines
• A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity

  Like the moon her kindness is,
  If kindness I may call

  12 lines
• A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid

  A mermaid found a swimming lad,
  Picked him for her own,

  6 lines, 1 comment
• A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare

  I have pointed out the yelling pack,
  The hare leap to the wood,

  12 lines
• A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old

  I have old women's secrets now
  That had those of the young;

  18 lines
• A Man Young And Old: V. The Empty Cup

  A crazy man that found a cup,
  When all but dead of thirst,

  10 lines
• A Man Young And Old: VI. His Memories

  We should be hidden from their eyes,
  Being but holy shows

  18 lines
• A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth

  Laughter not time destroyed my voice
  And put that crack in it,

  20 lines
• A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring

  We sat under an old thorn-tree
  And talked away the night,

  16 lines
• A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness

  O bid me mount and sail up there
  Amid the cloudy wrack,

  12 lines
• A Man Young And Old: XI. From Oedipus At Colonus

  Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;
  Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;

  12 lines, 1 comment
• A Meditation in Time of War

  For one throb of the Artery,
  While on that old grey stone I sat

  5 lines

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