Produced by Meredith Bach, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: (front cover)] RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER POEMS [Illustration] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER POEMS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS =New York= THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1916 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1911 By WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Copyright, 1904, 1908, and 1912 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Copyright, 1916 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916. 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 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