The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

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• Aibric
• Niamh
• Aherne
• Vijaya
• Cuchulain
• Parnell
• Rose
• Eochaid
• S. Patrick
• Edain
• John Synge
• Burke
• Lomair
• Jack
• Conan
• Solomon
• Tom
• Forgael
• Troy

Quotes edit see section history

• “Sad to remember, sick with years, The swift innumerable spears, The horsemen with their floating hair, And bowls of barley, honey, and wine, Those merry couples dancing in tune, And the white body that lay by mine”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

• “And like a sunset were her lips, A stormy sunset on doomed ships, A citron colour gloomed in her hair”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

• “"You only will I wed", I cried, "And I will make a thousand songs, And set your name all names above<...>"”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

• “In what far kingdom do you go, Ah, Fenians, with the shield and bow? Or are you phantoms white as snow, Whose lips had life's most prosperous glow?”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

• “When one day by the tide I stood, I found in that forgetfulness Of dreamy foam a staff of wood From some dead warrior's broken lance: I turned it in my hands; the stains Of war were on it, and I wept, Remembering how the Fenians stept along the blood-bedabbled plains, Equal to good or grievous chance.”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

• “But till the moon has taken all, I wage War on the mightiest men under the skies, And they have fallen or fled, age after age. Light is man's love, and lighter is man's rage; His purpose drifts and dies.”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

• “So lived I and lived not, so wrought I and wrought not, with creatures of dreams, In a long iron sleep, as a fish in the water goes dumb as a stone.”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

• “I go to the Fenians, O cleric, to chaunt The war-songs that roused them of old; they will rise, making clouds with their breath, Innumerable, singing, exultant; the clay underneath them shall pant, And demons be broken in pieces, and trampled beneath them in death.”

  The Wanderings of Oisin

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Heaven
• Ireland
• Goole
• Anashuya
• Galway
• Sligo

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. W. B. Yeats (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Richard J. Finneran

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: D86.226R.8.11 .M27 1959
• Dewey: 821.8

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Poetry › 20th Century
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( Y ) › Yeats, William Butler
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Single Authors › British & Irish