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The Wild Swans at Coole

by W. B. Yeats

First published: 1917
Pages: 86

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The Wild Swans at Coole
1:52
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
5:21
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
1:06
Men Improve with the Years
0:57
The Collarbone of a Hare
0:58
Under the Round Tower
1:35
Solomon to Sheba
1:11
The Living Beauty
0:54
A Song
0:58
To a Young Beauty
1:03
To a Young Girl
0:39
The Scholars
0:52
Tom O'Roughley
0:57
The Sad Shepherd
6:53
Lines Written in Dejection
0:52
The Dawn
0:55
On Woman
1:38
The Fisherman
1:38
The Hawk
0:58
Memory
0:33
Her Praise
1:19
The People
2:06
His Phoenix
2:27
A Thought from Propertius
0:36
Broken Dreams
2:11
A Deep-Sworn Vow
0:39
Presences
1:00
The Balloon of the Mind
0:30
To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno
0:31
On Being Asked for a War Poem
0:37
In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
1:50
Upon a Dying Lady
4:10
Ego Dominus Tuus
4:32
A Prayer on Going into my House
1:07
The Phases of the Moon
8:21
The Cat and the Moon
1:17
The Saint and the Hunchback
1:04
Two Songs of a Fool
1:35
Another Song of a Fool
0:46
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
3:28

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About this book

W. B. Yeats was in his fifties, weary and disappointed, when he counted fifty-nine swans on the lake at Coole Park and noticed that their hearts had not grown old while his had. The collection first appeared in 1917 and was enlarged two years later to forty-six poems. It holds elegies for Robert Gregory, shot down over Italy, the flat fatalism of "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," and poems in which the dreamy Celtic manner of his youth hardens into something spare and unsentimental. Ireland was moving toward revolution and Yeats was moving toward the voice of his great late work. This is the book where you can hear it arriving. Read it free in PDF and EPUB.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865 to 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, a driving force of the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 and is counted among the foremost figures of twentieth-century poetry.