CONTENTS

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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]
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]
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]

'In dreams begins responsibility.'

Old Play.

'How am I fallen from myself, for a long time now

I have not seen the Prince of Chang in my dreams.'

Khoung-fou-tseu.

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