1895.
Poems | By W. B. Yeats | London: Published by T. Fisher Unwin. | No. XI: Paternoster Buildings: MDCCCXCV [The whole forms part of a design by H.G.F.]
Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 288. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
Preface. (Dated Sligo, March 24, 1895.)
To Some I have talked with by the fire. Originally appeared in The Bookman, May, 1895.
The Wanderings of Usheen.[F]
The Countess Cathleen.[G]
The Land of Heart’s Desire.
The Rose:
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.[G]
Fergus and the Druid.[G]
The Death of Cuhoolin.[G]
The Rose of the World.[G]
The Rose of Peace.[G]
The Rose of Battle.[G]
A Faery Song.[G]
The Lake Isle of Innisfree.[G]
A Cradle Song.[G]
The Pity of Love.[G]
The Sorrow of Love.[G]
When You are Old.[G]
The White Birds.[G]
A Dream of Death.[G]
A Dream of a Blessed Spirit. Originally appeared, under the title Kathleen, in The National Observer, October 31, 1891.
The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland.[G]
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists.[G]
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner.[G]
The Ballad of Father Gilligan.[G]
The Two Trees.[G]
To Ireland in the Coming Times.[G]
Crossways:
The Song of the Happy Shepherd.[F]
The Sad Shepherd.[F]
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.[F] (A re-writing of the first lines of Island of Statues.)
Anashuya and Vijaya.[F]
The Indian upon God.[F]
The Indian to his Love.[F]
The Falling of the Leaves.[F]
Ephemera.[F]
The Madness of King Goll.[F]
The Stolen Child.[F]
To an Isle in the Water.[F]
Down by the Salley Gardens.[F]
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman.[F]
The Ballad of Father O’Hart.[G]
The Ballad of Moll Magee.[F]
The Ballad of the Foxhunter.[G]
Glossary.
1899. Second Edition, revised.
This edition has a portrait of the author by J. B. Yeats facing title-page, the preface is re-written, and the contents re-arranged thus:—
Preface. (Dated February 24, 1899.)
To Some I have talked with by the fire.
The Countess Cathleen.
The Rose.
The Land of Heart’s Desire.
Crossways.
The Wanderings of Oisin.
Glossary.
1901. Third Edition, revised.
This edition has a new preface, dated January, 1901, and the note in the glossary on The Countess Cathleen is much enlarged.