Responsibilities and Other Poems

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W. B. Yeats

BY
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1911
By WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Copyright, 1904, 1908, and 1912
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1916
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916.

• RESPONSIBILITIES
• [INTRODUCTORY RHYMES]
• THE GREY ROCK
• THE TWO KINGS
• TO A WEALTHY MAN WHO PROMISED A SECOND SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DUBLIN MUNICIPAL GALLERY IF IT WERE PROVED THE PEOPLE WANTED PICTURES
• SEPTEMBER 1913
• TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING
• PAUDEEN
• TO A SHADE
• WHEN HELEN LIVED
• THE ATTACK ON 'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD,' 1907
• THE THREE BEGGARS
• THE THREE HERMITS
• BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED
• THE WELL AND THE TREE
• RUNNING TO PARADISE
• THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN
• THE PLAYER QUEEN
• THE REALISTS
• I THE WITCH
• II THE PEACOCK
• THE MOUNTAIN TOMB
• TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND
• A MEMORY OF YOUTH
• FALLEN MAJESTY
• FRIENDS
• THE COLD HEAVEN
• THAT THE NIGHT COME
• AN APPOINTMENT
• I THE MAGI
• II THE DOLLS
• A COAT
• [CLOSING RHYMES]
• HIS DREAM
• A WOMAN HOMER SUNG
• THE CONSOLATION
• 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 OUR NEW UNIVERSITY HAVE JOINED THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS AND THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE
• TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE 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
• THE YOUNG MAN'S SONG
• THE HOUR-GLASS
• NOTES
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE