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The Wild Swans at Coole
This middle-period work explores Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.
"The Wild Swans at Coole" by W. B. Yeats is a poetry collection. This middle-period work explores Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.
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That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year I wished before it ceased.
Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence. Let the young wish. But what has brought you here? [28]Never until this moment have we met Where my goats browse on the scarce grass or leap From stone to stone.
I am looking for strayed sheep; Something has troubled me and in my trouble I let them stray. I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more; but when I had driven every rhyme into its place The sheep had gone from theirs.
I know right well What turned so good a shepherd from his charge. [29]
He that was best in every country sport And every country craft, and of us all Most courteous to slow age and hasty youth Is dead.
The boy that brings my griddle cake Brought the bare news.
He had thrown the crook away And died in the great war beyond the sea.
[30]He had often played his pipes among my hills And when he played it was their loneliness, The exultation of their stone, that cried Under his fingers.
I had it from his mother, And his own flock was browsing at the door.
Contents
- 01The Wild Swans at Coole
- 02In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
- 03An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
- 04Men Improve with the Years
- 05The Collar-Bone of a Hare
- 06Under the Round Tower
- 07Solomon to Sheba
- 08The Living Beauty
- 09A Song
- 10To a Young Beauty
- 11To a Young Girl
- 12The Scholars
- 13Tom O'roughley
- 14The Sad Shepherd
- 15Lines Written in Dejection
- 16The Dawn
- 17On Woman
- 18The Fisherman
- 19The Hawk
- 20Memory
- 21Her Praise
- 22The People
- 23His Phoenix
- 24A Thought from Propertius
- 25Broken Dreams
- 26A Deep-Sworn Vow
- 27Presences
- 28The Balloon of the Mind
- 29To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno
- 30On Being Asked for a War Poem
- 31In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
- 32Upon a Dying Lady
- 33Ego Dominus Tuus
- 34A Prayer on Going Into My House
- 35The Phases of the Moon
- 36The Cat and the Moon
- 37The Saint and the Hunchback
- 38Two Songs of a Fool
- 39Another Song of a Fool
- 40The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
About this edition
- Author
- W. B. Yeats
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 113 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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