POEMS LYRICAL AND NARRATIVE BEING THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE AND…

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THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS

THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE

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THE EVERLASTING VOICES

THE MOODS

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THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART

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THE HOST OF THE AIR

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THE FISHERMAN

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A CRADLE SONG

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INTO THE TWILIGHT

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THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS

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THE HEART OF THE WOMAN

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THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE

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HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND HIS BELOVED AND LONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

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HE BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE

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HE REPROVES THE CURLEW

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HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY

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A POET TO HIS BELOVED

HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES

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TO MY HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR

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THE CAP AND BELLS

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THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG

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THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS

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HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS

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HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY

HE HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE

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HE THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED

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THE BLESSED

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THE SECRET ROSE

MAID QUIET

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THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION

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THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIEND FOR OLD FRIENDS

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A LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS

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THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS

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HE WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD

HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN

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HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF THE CONSTELLATIONS OF HEAVEN

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THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE

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BAILE AND AILLINN

Argument. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to be happy in his own land among the dead, told to each a story of the other’s death, so that their hearts were broken and they died.

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IN THE SEVEN WOODS

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THE ARROW

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THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED

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OLD MEMORY

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NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART

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THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS

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ADAM’S CURSE

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RED HANRAHAN’S SONG ABOUT IRELAND

THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER

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UNDER THE MOON

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THE HOLLOW WOOD

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O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG

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THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES

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THE HAPPY TOWNLAND

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EARLY POEMS I BALLADS AND LYRICS

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EARLY POEMS: BALLADS AND LYRICS

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THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD

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THE SAD SHEPHERD

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THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES

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ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA

A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest. ANASHUYA, the young priestess, kneeling within the temple.

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THE INDIAN UPON GOD

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THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE

THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES

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EPHEMERA

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THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL

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THE STOLEN CHILD

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TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER

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DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS

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THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN

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THE BALLAD OF FATHER O’HART

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THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE

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THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER

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THE BALLAD OF FATHER GILLIGAN

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THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER

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THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY

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THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS

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EARLY POEMS II THE ROSE

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EARLY POEMS: THE ROSE

TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME

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FERGUS AND THE DRUID

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THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN

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THE ROSE OF THE WORLD

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THE ROSE OF PEACE

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THE ROSE OF BATTLE

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A FAERY SONG

Sung by the people of faery over Diarmuid and Grania, who lay in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.

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THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

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A CRADLE SONG

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THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER

THE PITY OF LOVE

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THE SORROW OF LOVE

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WHEN YOU ARE OLD

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THE WHITE BIRDS

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A DREAM OF DEATH

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A DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT

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THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND

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THE TWO TREES

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TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES

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EARLY POEMS III THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN

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