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The Wind Among the Reeds

W. B. Yeats

This work embodies Yeats's deep engagement with Irish folklore, mythology, and themes of love, beauty, and longing.

"The Wind Among the Reeds" by W. B. Yeats is a collection of poems. This work embodies Yeats's deep engagement with Irish folklore, mythology, and themes of love, beauty, and longing.

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The powerful and wealthy called the gods of ancient Ireland the Tuatha De Danaan, or the Tribes of the goddess Danu, but the poor called them, and still sometimes call them, the Sidhe, from Aes Sidhe or Sluagh Sidhe, the people of the Faery Hills, as these words are usually explained. Sidhe is also Gaelic for wind, and certainly the Sidhe have much to do with the wind. They journey in whirling winds, the winds that were called the dance of the daughters of Herodias in the Middle Ages, Herodias doubtless taking the place of some old goddess. When the country people see the[66] leaves whirling on the road they bless themselves, because they believe the Sidhe to be passing by. They are almost always said to wear no covering upon their heads, and to let their hair stream out; and the great among them, for they have great and simple, go much upon horseback. If any one becomes too much interested in them, and sees them over much, he loses all interest in ordinary things. I shall write a great deal elsewhere about such enchanted persons, and can give but an example or two now.

Contents

  1. 01The Hosting of the Sidhe
  2. 02The Everlasting Voices
  3. 03The Moods
  4. 04Aedh Tells of the Rose in His Heart
  5. 05The Host of the Air
  6. 06Breasal the Fisherman
  7. 07A Cradle Song
  8. 08Into the Twilight
  9. 09The Song of Wandering Aengus
  10. 10The Song of the Old Mother
  11. 11The Fiddler of Dooney
  12. 12The Heart of the Woman
  13. 13Aedh Laments the Loss of Love
  14. 14Mongan Laments the Change That Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved
  15. 15Michael Robartes Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
  16. 16Hanrahan Reproves the Curlew
  17. 17Michael Robartes Remembers Forgotten Beauty
  18. 18A Poet to His Beloved
  19. 19Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
  20. 20To My Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
  21. 21The Cap and Bells
  22. 22The Valley of the Black Pig
  23. 23Michael Robartes Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods
  24. 24Aedh Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
  25. 25Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty
  26. 26Aedh Hears the Cry of the Sedge
  27. 27Aedh Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved
  28. 28The Blessed
  29. 29The Secret Rose
  30. 30Hanrahan Laments Because of His Wanderings
  31. 31The Travail of Passion
  32. 32The Poet Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends
  33. 33Hanrahan Speaks to the Lovers of His Songs in Coming Days
  34. 34Aedh Pleads with the Elemental Powers
  35. 35Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
  36. 36Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
  37. 37Mongan Thinks of His Past Greatness
  38. 38The Hosting of the Sidhe.
  39. 39'Aedh,' 'Hanrahan' and 'Michael Robartes' in these Poems.
  40. 40Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers.
  41. 41Mongan thinks of his past Greatness.
  42. 42Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge.
  43. 43The Host of the Air.
  44. 44A Cradle Song.
  45. 45Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many Moods.
  46. 46The Song of Wandering Aengus.
  47. 47Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace.
  48. 48Mongan laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved.
  49. 49Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings.
  50. 50The Cap and Bells.
  51. 51The Valley of the Black Pig.
  52. 52The Secret Rose.

About this edition

Author
W. B. Yeats
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
78 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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