W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)

The Tower (1928)

Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower

Meditations in Time of Civil War

I. Ancestral Houses
II. My House
III. My Table
IV. My Descendants
V. The Road at My Door
VI. The Stare’s Nest by My Window
VII. I see Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
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