CONTENTS page The Hosting of the Sidhe 1 The Everlasting Voices 3 The Moods 4 Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart 5 The Host of the Air 7 Breasal the Fisherman 10 A Cradle Song 11 Into the Twilight 13 The Song of Wandering Aengus 15 The Song of the old Mother 17 The Fiddler of Dooney 18 The Heart of the Woman 20 Aedh Laments the Loss of Love 21 Mongan laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved 22 Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace 24[vi] Hanrahan reproves the Curlew 26 Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty 27 A Poet to his Beloved 29 Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes 30 To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear 31 The Cap and Bells 32 The Valley of the Black Pig 35 Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many Moods 37 Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers 40 Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty 42 Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge 43 Aedh thinks of those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved 44 The Blessed 45 The Secret Rose 47 Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings 51 The Travail of Passion 52 The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends 54[vii] Hanrahan speaks to the Lovers of his Songs in coming Days 55 Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers 57 Aedh wishes his Beloved were Dead 59 Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 60 Mongan thinks of his past Greatness 61 Notes 65 THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE By W. B. Yeats CONTENTS page The Wild Swans at Coole 1 In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 4 An Irish Airman foresees his Death 13 Men improve with the Years 14 The Collar-Bone of a Hare 15 Under the Round Tower 17 Solomon to Sheba 19 The Living Beauty 21 A Song 22 To a Young Beauty 23 To a Young Girl 24 The Scholars 25 Tom O'Roughley 26 The Sad Shepherd 27 Lines written in Dejection 39 The Dawn 40[viii] On Woman 41 The Fisherman 44 The Hawk 46 Memory 47 Her Praise 48 The People 50 His Phoenix 54 A Thought from Propertius 58 Broken Dreams 59 A Deep-Sworn Vow 63 Presences 64 The Balloon of the Mind 66 To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno 67 On being asked for a War Poem 68 In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen 69 Upon a Dying Lady 72 Ego Dominus Tuus 79 A Prayer on going into my House 86 The Phases of the Moon 88 The Cat and the Moon 102 The Saint and the Hunchback 104[ix] Two Songs of a Fool 106 Another Song of a Fool 108 The Double Vision of Michael Robartes 109 Note 115 IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL By W. B. Yeats Contents. WHAT IS ‘POPULAR POETRY’? 1 SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY 16 MAGIC 29 THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS 70 THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY’S POETRY 90 AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON 142 WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION 168 WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY 176 SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING 226 THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY 237 THE THEATRE 257 THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 270 THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY 296 THE MOODS 306 THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX 308 THE RETURN OF ULYSSES 312 IRELAND AND THE ARTS 320 THE GALWAY PLAINS 333 EMOTION OF MULTITUDE 339