The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

• ISBN13: 9789372270341
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Peacock Books
• Publication Date: August 7, 2026
• Pages: 510
• Original Price: INR 450.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 330 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Subjects & Themes / General

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is a remarkable corpus of verse that traces the evolution of one of literature's most influential poetic voices. Spanning decades of creative life, the collection reflects Yeats's journey from romantic idealism to a more complex and often troubled vision of the modern world. His poems move through themes of love, mythology, nationalism and the passage of time, shaped by both personal experience and the shifting tides of history. From the dreamlike beauty of early works to the stark intensity of his later poetry, Yeats crafts a world where imagination and reality constantly intertwine. This collection features some of his finest works, including The Wild Swans at Coole (1917), The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) offering readers a poetic journey rich in symbolism and emotional depth. This enduring collection continues to resonate as a testament to poetry's power to capture both the spirit of an age and the inner life of the human soul.

W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and one of the foremost figures of twentieth-century literature, widely regarded as a central force in the revival of Irish literary culture. Born in Dublin and raised partly in London, Yeats was educated at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, where he developed an early interest in poetry, mythology and the occult. Deeply influenced by Irish folklore and nationalist thought, he became a leading figure in the Irish Literary Revival and played a key role in the founding of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre.

Yeats’s early work is marked by lyrical beauty and romantic idealism, often drawing on Celtic mythology and symbolic imagery. Over time, his poetry evolved into a more complex, modern style, reflecting the political upheavals in Ireland and his own philosophical inquiries into history, spirituality and human existence. His later works are noted for their starkness, intellectual depth and powerful exploration of ageing, identity and the passage of time. In recognition of his literary achievement, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

Alongside his poetry, Yeats wrote plays, essays and prose works that contributed significantly to modern literature. His enduring legacy lies in the richness of his poetic voice and his ability to blend personal vision with national and universal themes. His works continue to be widely read and studied, securing his place as one of the greatest poets in the English language.

Noteworthy works by W. B. Yeats:
• The Celtic Twilight (1893)
• Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
• Ideas of Good and Evil (1903)
• Purgatory (1938)

• LYRICAL
• CROSSWAYS–1889
• The Song of The Happy Shepherd
• The Sad Shepherd
• The Cloak, The Boat, And The Shoes
• Anashuya and Vijaya
• The Indian upon God
• The Indian to His Love
• The Falling of the Leaves
• Ephemera
• The Madness of King Goll
• The Stolen Child
• To an Isle in the Water
• Down by the Salley Gardens
• The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
• The Ballad of Father O’hart
• The Ballad of Moll Magee
• The Ballad of the Foxhunter
• THE ROSE–1893
• To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
• Fergus and the Druid
• Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea
• The Rose of the World
• The Rose of Peace
• The Rose of Battle
• A Faery Song
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• A Cradle Song
• The Pity of Love
• The Sorrow of Love
• When You Are Old
• The White Birds
• A Dream of Death
• The Countess Cathleen in Paradise
• Who Goes with fergus?
• The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
• The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
• The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
• The Ballad of Father Gilligan
• The Two Trees
• To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire
• To Ireland in the Coming Times
• THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS–1899
• The Hosting of the Sidhe
• The Everlasting Voices
• The Moods
• The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
• The Host of the Air
• The Fish
• The Unappeasable Host
• Into the Twilight
• The Song of Wandering Aengus
• The Song of the Old Mother
• The Heart of the Woman
• The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
• He Mourns for the Change That Has ComeUpon Him and His Beloved, and Longs for the End of the World
• He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace
• He Reproves the Curlew
• He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
• A Poet to His Beloved
• He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
• To His Heart, Bidding it Have No Fear
• The Cap and Bells
• The Valley of the Black Pig
• The Lover Asks Forgiveness Becauseof His Many Moods
• He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
• He Tells of the Perfect Beauty
• He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
• He Thinks of Those Who Have SpokenEvil of His Beloved
• The Blessed
• The Secret Rose
• Maid Quiet
• The Travail of Passion
• The Lover Pleads With His Friends For Old Friends
• The Lover Speaks to the Hearers of His Songs in Coming Days
• The Poet Pleads With the Elemental Powers
• He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
• He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
• He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven
• The Fiddler Of Dooney
• IN THE SEVEN WOODS–1903
• In the Seven Woods
• The Arrow
• The Folly of Being Comforted
• Old Memory
• Never Give All the Heart
• The Withering of the Boughs
• Adam’s Curse
• Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland
• The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
• Under the Moon
• The Ragged Wood
• O Do Not Love Too Long
• The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves
• The Happy Townland
• FROM THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS–1910
• His Dream
• A Woman Homer Sung
• Words
• No Second Troy
• Reconciliation
• King and No King
• Peace
• Against Unworthy Praise
• The Fascination of What’s Difficult
• A Drinking Song
• The Coming of Wisdom with Time
• On Hearing That the Students of OurNew University Have Joined theAgitation Against Immoral Literature
• To a Poet, Who Would Have MePraise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
• The Mask
• Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
• At the Abbey Theatre
• These are the Clouds
• At Galway Races
• A Friend’s Illness
• All Things Can Tempt Me
• Brown Penny
• RESPONSIBILITIES–1914
• Introductory Rhymes
• The Grey Rock
• To a Wealthy Man Who Promiseda Second Subscription to the, DublinMunicipal Gallery if it Were Provedthe People Wanted Pictures
• September 1913
• To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
• Paudeen
• To a Shade
• When Helen Lived
• On Those That Hated ‘The Playboy ofthe Western World,’ 1907
• The Three Beggars
• The Three Hermits
• Beggar to Beggar Cried
• Running to Paradise
• The Hour Before Dawn
• A Song from ‘The Player Queen’
• The Realists
• I–The Witch
• II–The Peacock
• The Mountain Tomb
• I–To a Child Dancing in the Wind
• II–Two Years Later
• A Memory of Youth
• Fallen Majesty
• Friends
• The Cold Heaven
• That the Night Come
• An Appointment
• The Magi
• The Dolls
• A Coat
• Closing Rhyme
• THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE–1919
• The Wild Swans at Coole
• In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
• Men Improve with the Years
• The Collar-Bone of a Hare
• Under the Round Tower
• Solomon to Sheba
• The Living Beauty
• A Song
• To a Young Beauty
• To a Young Girl
• The Scholars
• Tom O’roughley
• Shepherd and Goatherd
• Lines Written in Dejection
• The Dawn
• On Woman
• The Fisherman
• The Hawk
• Memory
• Her Praise
• The People
• His Phoenix
• A Thought from Propertius
• Broken Dreams
• A Deep-Sworn Vow
• Presences
• The Balloon of the Mind
• To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No
• On Being Asked for a War Poem
• In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
• Upon a Dying Lady
• I–Her Courtesy
• II–Certain Artists Bring Her Dolls and Drawings
• III–She Turns the Dolls’ Faces to the Wall
• IV–The End of Day
• V–Her Race
• VI–Her Courage
• VII–Her Friends Bring Her a Christmas Tree
• Ego Dominus Tuus
• A Prayer on Going into My House
• The Phases of the Moon
• The Cat and the Moon
• The Saint and the Hunchback
• Two Songs of a Fool
• Another Song Of A Fool
• The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes
• MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER–1921
• Michael Robartes and the Dancer
• Solomon and the Witch
• An Image from a Past Life
• Under Saturn
• Easter, 1916
• Sixteen Dead Men
• The Rose Tree
• On a Political Prisoner
• The Leaders of the Crowd
• Towards Break of Day
• Demon and Beast
• The Second Coming
• A Prayer for My Daughter
• A Meditation in Time of War
• To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
• THE TOWER–1928
• Sailing to Byzantium
• The Tower
• Meditations in Time of Civil War
• Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
• The Wheel
• Youth and Age
• The New Faces
• A Prayer for My Son
• Two Songs from a Play
• Fragments
• Leda and the Swan
• On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
• Among School Children
• Colonus’ Praise
• Wisdom
• The Fool by the Roadside
• Owen Aherne and His Dancers
• A Man Young and Old
• I–First Love
• II–Human Dignity
• III–The Mermaid
• IV–The Death of the Hare
• V–The Empty Cup
• VI–His Memories
• VII–The Friends of His Youth
• VIII–Summer and Spring
• IX–The Secrets of the Old
• X–His Wildness
• XI–From ‘Oedipus At Colonus’
• The Three Monuments
• All Souls’ Night
• THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS–1933
• In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
• Death
• A Dialogue of Self and Soul
• Blood and the Moon
• Oil and Blood
• Veronica’s Napkin
• Symbols
• Spilt Milk
• The Nineteenth Century and After
• Statistics
• Three Movements
• The Seven Sages
• The Crazed Moon
• Coole Park, 1929
• Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
• For Anne Gregory
• Swift’s Epitaph
• At Algeciras—A Meditation upon Death
• The Choice
• Mohini Chatterjee
• Byzantium
• The Mother of God
• Vacillation
• Quarrel in Old Age
• The Results of Thought
• Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
• Remorse for Intemperate Speech
• Stream and Sun at Glendalough
• Words for Music Perhaps
• I–Crazy Jane and the Bishop
• II–Crazy Jane Reproved
• III–Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment
• IV–Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman
• V–Crazy Jane on God
• VI–Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop
• VII–Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers
• VIII–Girl’s Song
• IX–Young Man’s Song
• X–Her Anxiety
• XI–His Confidence
• XII–Love’s Loneliness
• XIII–Her Dream
• XIV–His Bargain
• XV–Three Things
• XVI–Lullaby
• XVII–After Long Silence
• XVIII–Mad as the Mist and Snow
• XIX–Those Dancing Days are Gone
• XX–‘I Am of Ireland’
• XXI–The Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick
• XXII–Tom the Lunatic
• XXIII–Tom at Cruachan
• XXIV–Old Tom Again
• XXV–The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus
• A Woman Young and Old
• I–Father and Child
• II–Before the World was Made
• III–A First Confession
• IV–Her Triumph
• V–Consolation
• VI–Chosen
• VII–Parting
• VIII–Her Vision in the Wood
• IX–A Last Confession
• X–Meeting
• XI–From the ‘Antigone’
• FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH–1935
• Parnell’s Funeral
• Three Songs to the Same Tune
• Alternative Song for the SeveredHead in ‘The King of the Great Clock Tower’
• Two Songs Rewritten for the Tune’s Sake
• A Prayer for Old Age
• Church and State
• Supernatural Songs
• I–Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn
• II–Ribh Denounces Patrick
• III–Ribh in Ecstasy
• IV–There
• V–Ribh Considers Christian Love Insufficient
• VI–He and She
• VII–What Magic Drum?
• VIII–Whence Had They Come?
• IX–The Four Ages of Man
• X–Conjunctions
• XI–A Needle’s Eye
• XII–Meru
• The Gyres
• Lapis Lazuli
• Imitated from the Japanese
• Sweet Dancer
• The Three Bushes
• The Lady’s First Song
• The Lady’s Second Song
• The Lady’s Third Song
• The Lover’s Song
• The Chambermaid’s First Song
• The Chambermaid’s Second Song
• An Acre of Grass
• What Then?
• Beautiful Lofty Things
• A Crazed Girl
• To Dorothy Wellesley
• The Curse of Cromwell
• Roger Casement
• The Ghost of Roger Casement
• The O’Rahilly
• Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
• The Wild Old Wicked Man
• The Great Day
• Parnell
• What Was Lost
• The Spur
• A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety
• The Pilgrim
• Colonel Martin
• A Model for the Laureate
• The Old Stone Cross
• The Spirit Medium
• Those Images
• The Municipal Gallery Revisited
• Are You Content?
• Three Songs to the One Burden
• In Tara’s Halls
• The Statues
• News for the Delphic Oracle
• Three Marching Songs
• Long-Legged Fly
• A Bronze Head
• A Stick of Incense
• John Kinsella’s Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore
• Hound Voice
• High Talk
• The Apparitions
• A Nativity
• Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
• The Statesman’s Holiday
• Crazy Jane on the Mountain
• The Circus Animals’ Desertion
• Politics
• The Man and the Echo
• Cuchulain Comforted
• The Black Tower
• Under Ben Bulben
• A Prayer on Going into My House
• The Phases of the Moon
• The Cat and the Moon
• The Saint and the Hunchback
• Two Songs of a Fool
• Another Song Of A Fool
• The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes
• MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER–1921
• Michael Robartes and the Dancer
• Solomon and the Witch
• An Image from a Past Life
• Under Saturn
• Easter, 1916
• Sixteen Dead Men
• The Rose Tree
• On a Political Prisoner
• The Leaders of the Crowd
• Towards Break of Day
• Demon and Beast
• The Second Coming
• A Prayer for My Daughter
• A Meditation in Time of War
• To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
• THE TOWER–1928
• Sailing to Byzantium
• The Tower
• Meditations in Time of Civil War
• Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
• The Wheel
• Youth and Age
• The New Faces
• A Prayer for My Son
• Two Songs from a Play
• Fragments
• Leda and the Swan
• On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
• Among School Children
• Colonus’ Praise
• Wisdom
• The Fool by the Roadside
• Owen Aherne and His Dancers
• A Man Young and Old
• I–First Love
• II–Human Dignity
• III–The Mermaid
• IV–The Death of the Hare
• V–The Empty Cup
• VI–His Memories
• VII–The Friends of His Youth
• VIII–Summer and Spring
• IX–The Secrets of the Old
• X–His Wildness
• XI–From ‘Oedipus At Colonus’
• The Three Monuments
• All Souls’ Night
• THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS–1933
• In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
• Death
• A Dialogue of Self and Soul
• Blood and the Moon
• Oil and Blood
• Veronica’s Napkin
• Symbols
• Spilt Milk
• The Nineteenth Century and After
• Statistics
• Three Movements
• The Seven Sages
• The Crazed Moon
• Coole Park, 1929
• Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
• For Anne Gregory
• Swift’s Epitaph
• At Algeciras—A Meditation upon Death
• The Choice
• Mohini Chatterjee
• Byzantium
• The Mother of God
• Vacillation
• Quarrel in Old Age
• The Results of Thought
• Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
• Remorse for Intemperate Speech
• Stream and Sun at Glendalough
• Words for Music Perhaps
• I–Crazy Jane and the Bishop
• II–Crazy Jane Reproved
• III–Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment
• IV–Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman
• V–Crazy Jane on God
• VI–Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop
• VII–Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers
• VIII–Girl’s Song
• IX–Young Man’s Song
• X–Her Anxiety
• XI–His Confidence
• XII–Love’s Loneliness
• XIII–Her Dream
• XIV–His Bargain
• XV–Three Things
• XVI–Lullaby
• XVII–After Long Silence
• XVIII–Mad as the Mist and Snow
• XIX–Those Dancing Days are Gone
• XX–‘I Am of Ireland’
• XXI–The Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick
• XXII–Tom the Lunatic
• XXIII–Tom at Cruachan
• XXIV–Old Tom Again
• XXV–The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus
• A Woman Young and Old
• I–Father and Child
• II–Before the World was Made
• III–A First Confession
• IV–Her Triumph
• V–Consolation
• VI–Chosen
• VII–Parting
• VIII–Her Vision in the Wood
• IX–A Last Confession
• X–Meeting
• XI–From the ‘Antigone’
• FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH–1935
• Parnell’s Funeral
• Three Songs to the Same Tune
• Alternative Song for the SeveredHead in ‘The King of the Great Clock Tower’
• Two Songs Rewritten for the Tune’s Sake
• A Prayer for Old Age
• Church and State
• Supernatural Songs
• I–Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn
• II–Ribh Denounces Patrick
• III–Ribh in Ecstasy
• IV–There
• V–Ribh Considers Christian Love Insufficient
• VI–He and She
• VII–What Magic Drum?
• VIII–Whence Had They Come?
• IX–The Four Ages of Man
• X–Conjunctions
• XI–A Needle’s Eye
• XII–Meru
• LAST POIEMS 1936-1939
• The Gyres
• Lapis Lazuli
• Imitated from the Japanese
• Sweet Dancer
• The Three Bushes
• The Lady’s First Song
• The Lady’s Second Song
• The Lady’s Third Song
• The Lover’s Song
• The Chambermaid’s First Song
• The Chambermaid’s Second Song
• An Acre of Grass
• What Then?
• Beautiful Lofty Things
• A Crazed Girl
• To Dorothy Wellesley
• The Curse of Cromwell
• Roger Casement
• The Ghost of Roger Casement
• The O’Rahilly
• Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
• The Wild Old Wicked Man
• The Great Day
• Parnell
• What Was Lost
• The Spur
• A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety
• The Pilgrim
• Colonel Martin
• A Model for the Laureate
• The Old Stone Cross
• The Spirit Medium
• Those Images
• The Municipal Gallery Revisited
• Are You Content?
• Three Songs to the One Burden
• In Tara’s Halls
• The Statues
• News for the Delphic Oracle
• Three Marching Songs
• Long-Legged Fly
• A Bronze Head
• A Stick of Incense
• John Kinsella’s Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore
• Hound Voice
• High Talk
• The Apparitions
• A Nativity
• Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
• The Statesman’s Holiday
• Crazy Jane on the Mountain
• The Circus Animals’ Desertion
• Politics
• The Man and the Echo
• Cuchulain Comforted
• The Black Tower
• Under Ben Bulben