Chapter III: 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

THE KING'S THRESHOLD; and ON BAILE'S STRAND Being Volume Three Of Plays For An Irish Theatre By W. B. Yeats CONTENTS The King's Threshold On Baile's Strand

JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA By William Butler Yeats CONTENTS GANCONAGH'S APOLOGY. 1