Lyrical: Crossways (1889) ; The rose (1893) ; The wind among the reeds (1899) ; In the seven woods (1904) ; From The green helmet and other poems (1910) ; Responsibilities (1914) ; The wild swans of Coole (1919) ; Michael Robartes and the dancer (1921) ; The tower (1928) ; The winding stair and other poems (1933) ; Words for music perhaps ; A woman young and old ; From A full moon in March (1935) ; Last poems (1936-1939)
The song of the happy shepherd --
The cloak, the boat, and the shoes --
The Indian to his love --
The falling of the leaves --
The madness of King Goll --
To an isle in the water --
Down by the Salley Gardens --
The meditation of the old fisherman --
The ballad of Father O'Hart --
The ballad of Moll Magee --
The ballad of the foxhunter --
To the rose upon the rood of time --
Cuchulain's fight with the sea --
The lake isle of Innisfree --
The Countess Cathleen in paradise --
The man who dreamed of faeryland --
The dedication to a book of stories selected from the Irish novelist --
The lamentation of the old pensioner --
The ballad of Father Gilligan --
To some I have talked with by the fire --
To Ireland in the coming times --
To hosting of the Sidhe --
The everlasting voices --
The lover tells of the rose in his heart --
The song of wandering Aengus --
The song of the old mother --
The heart of the woman --
The lover mourns for the loss of love --
He mourns for the change that has come upon him... --
He bids his beloved be at peace --
He reproves the curlew --
He remembers forgotten beauty --
He gives his beloved certain rhymes --
To his heart, bidding it have no fear --
The valley of the black pig --
The lover asks forgiveness because of his many moods --
He tells of a valley full of lovers --
He tells of the perfect beauty --
He hears the cry of the sedge --
He thinks of those who have spoken evil of his beloved --
The travail of passion --
The lover pleads with his friend for old friends --
The lover speaks to the hearers of his songs in coming days --
The poet pleads with the elemental powers --
He wishes his beloved were dead --
He wishes for the cloths of heaven --
He thinks of his past greatness when a part of the constellations of heaven --
The folly of being comforted --
Never give all the heart --
The withering of the boughs --
Red Hanrahan's song about Ireland --
The old men admiring themselves in the water --
O do not love too long --
The players ask for a blessing on the psalteries and on themselves --
Against unworthy praise --
The fascination of what's difficult --
The coming of wisdom with time --
On hearing that the students of our new university... --
To a poet, who would have me praise certain bad poets... --
Upon a house shaken by the land agitation --
All things can tempt me --
To a wealthy man who promised... --
To a friend whose work has come to nothing --
On those that hated the 'Playboy of the western world' 1907 --
Beggar to beggar cried --
A song from 'The Player Queen' --
While I, from that reed-throated whisperer --
The wild swans at Coole --
In memory of Major Robert Gregory --
An Irish airman foresees his death --
Men improve with the years --
The collar-bone of a hare --
Lines written in dejection --
A thought from Propertius --
The balloon of the mind --
To a squirrel at Kyle-na-no --
On being asked for a war poem --
In memory of Alfred Pollexfen --
A prayer on going into my house --
The phases of the moon --
The saint and the hunchback --
Another song of a fool --
The double vision of Michael Robertes --
Michael Robartes and the dancer --
An image from a past life --
On a political prisoner --
The leaders of the crowd --
A prayer for my daughter --
A meditation in time of war --
To be carved on a stone at Thoor Ballylee --
Meditations in time of civil war --
Nineteen hundred and nineteen --
On a picture of a black centaur by Edmund Dulac --
The hero, the girl, and the fool --
Owen Aherne and his dancers --
In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz --
A dialogue of self and soul --
The nineteenth century and after --
Coole park and Ballylee, 1931 --
At Algeciras.. a meditation upon death --
The results of thought --
Gratitude to the unknown instructors --
Remorse for intemperate speech --
Stream and sun at Glendalough --
Crazy Jane and the Bishop --
Crazy Jane on the day of judgment --
Crazy Jane and Jack the journeyman --
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop --
Crazy Jane grown old looks at the dancers --
Mad as the mist and snow --
Those dancing days are gone --
The dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick --
Before the world was made --
Her vision in the wood --
Three songs to the same tune --
Alternative song for the severed head in 'The King of the great clock tower' --
Two songs rewritten for the tune's sake --
Imitated from the Japanese --
The lady's second song --
The chambermaid's first song --
The chambermaid's second song --
Beautiful lofty things --
The ghost of Roger Casement --
Come gather round me, Parnellites --
The wild old wicked man --
A drunken man's praise of sobriety --
A model for the laureate --
The municipal gallery revisited --
Three songs to the one burden --
News for the Delphic oracle --
John Kinsella's lament for Mrs. Mary Moore --
Why should not old men be mad? --
The statesman's holiday --
Crazy Jane on the mountain --
The circus animal's desertion --
The wanderings of Oisin --
The old age of Queen Maeve --
The gift of Harun Al-Rashid
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