Back to bookThe tower
Free sample
Free sample
Chapter I

Meditations in Time of Civil War

I Ancestral Houses

II My House

III My Table

IV My Descendants

V The Road at My Door

VI The Stare’s Nest by My Window

VII I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness

1923

Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

1919

Youth and Age

1924

Two Songs from a Play

I

II

Leda and the Swan

1928

Among School Children

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

Colonus’ Praise

(From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’)

Chorus

The Hero, The Girl, and The Fool

The Girl

The Hero

The Girl

The Hero

The Girl

The Fool by the Roadside

Owen Ahern and His Dancers

I

II

A Man Young and Old

First Love

Human Dignity

The Mermaid

The Death of the Hare

The Empty Cup

His Memories

The Friends of His Youth

Summer and Spring

The Secrets of the Old

His Wildness

The sample stops here

This is as far as the free sample of The tower goes

You have read 10 of 14 chapters. Start your trial to keep reading all 14 chapters, tap any word for an instant translation, hear the audio narration, and save your progress across devices.

Free sampleTap to translateAudio narration