CONTENTS PAGE Responsibilities, 1912-1914— Introductory Rhymes 1 The Grey Rock 3 The Two Kings 11 To a Wealthy Man 29 September 1913 32 To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing 34 Paudeen 35 To a Shade 36 When Helen Lived 39 The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,'—1907 40 The Three Beggars 41 The Three Hermits 45 Beggar to Beggar cried 47 The Well and the Tree 49 Running to Paradise 50 The Hour before Dawn 52 The Player Queen 59 The Realists 61 The Witch 62 The Peacock 63 [vi] The Mountain Tomb 64 To a Child dancing in the Wind 66 A Memory of Youth 68 Fallen Majesty 70 Friends 71 The Cold Heaven 73 That the Night come 75 An Appointment 76 The Magi 77 The Dolls 78 A Coat 80 Closing Rhymes 81 From the Green Helmet and other Poems, 1909-1912— His Dream 85 A Woman Homer sung 87 The Consolation 89 No Second Troy 91 Reconciliation 92 King and No King 94 Peace 96 Against Unworthy Praise 97 The Fascination of What's Difficult 99 A Drinking Song 101 The Coming of Wisdom with Time 102 On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians 103 To a Poet 104 [vii] The Mask 105 Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation 106 At the Abbey Theatre 108 These are the Clouds 110 At Galway Races 112 A Friend's Illness 113 All Things can tempt me 114 The Young Man's Song 115 The Hour-Glass—1912 117 Notes 181 WHERE THERE IS NOTHING Being Volume One Of Plays For An Irish Theatre By W. B. Yeats CONTENTS DEDICATION OF VOLUMES ONE AND TWO OF PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE WHERE THERE IS NOTHING. ACT I. ACT II. ACT III. ACT IV. ACT V. POEMS By W. B. YEATS CONTENTS PAGE The Countess Cathleen 1 The Rose— To the Rose upon the Rood of Time 109 Fergus and the Druid 111 The Death of Cuchulain 114 The Rose of the World 119 The Rose of Peace 120 The Rose of Battle 121 A Faery Song 123 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 124 A Cradle Song 125 The Pity of Love 126 The Sorrow of Love 127 When You are Old 128 The White Birds 129 A Dream of Death 131 A Dream of a Blessed Spirit 132 Who goes with Fergus 133 The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland 134 The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists 137 The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner 139xiv The Ballad of Father Gilligan 140 The Two Trees 143 To Ireland in the Coming Times 145 The Land of Heart's Desire 149 Crossways— The Song of the Happy Shepherd 197 The Sad Shepherd 200 The Cloak, The Boat, and the Shoes 202 Anashuya and Vijaya 203 The Indian upon God 209 The Indian to his Love 211 The Falling of the Leaves 213 Ephemera 214 The Madness of King Goll 216 The Stolen Child 220 To an Isle in the Water 223 Down by the Salley Gardens 224 The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 225 The Ballad of Father O'Hart 226 The Ballad of Moll Magee 229 The Ballad of the Foxhunter 232 The Wanderings of Usheen 235 Glossary and Notes 299