The Countess Cathleen

W. B. Yeats

By W. B. Yeats

1912#id_3892692089907738448_5167-h-0.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00002

First Edition............................ 1892

Second Edition (in "Poems" by W. B. Yeats) 1895

Third Edition ,, ,, 1899

Fourth Edition ,, ,, 1901

Fifth Edition ,, ,, 1904

Sixth Edition ,, ,, 1908

Seventh Edition (revised)................ 1912

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To MAUD GONNE

"The sorrowful are dumb for thee"

Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke

SHEMUS RUA, A Peasant

MARY, His Wife

TEIG, His Son

ALEEL, A Poet

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN

OONA, Her Foster Mother

Two Demons disguised as Merchants

Peasants, Servants, Angelical Beings, Spirits

The Scene is laid in Ireland and in old times.

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