W. B. Yeats

1865–1939

Ireland, 1865–1939. The greatest Irish poet in the English language and one of the central voices of the twentieth century. He moved from the Celtic Twilight of his youth to a hard, modern poetry; he received the Nobel Prize in 1923. His work is in the public domain.
  • Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)
  • The Song of the Happy Shepherd (1889)
  • The Stolen Child (1889)
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1893)
  • When You Are Old (1893)
  • He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899)
  • Into the Twilight (1899)
  • The Cap and Bells (1899)
  • The Everlasting Voices (1899)
  • The Heart of the Woman (1899)
  • The Hosting of the Sidhe (1899)
  • The Song of the Old Mother (1899)
  • The Song of Wandering Aengus (1899)
  • A Woman Homer Sung (1910)
  • Against Unworthy Praise (1910)
  • At Galway Races (1910)
  • No Second Troy (1910)
  • A Memory of Youth (1912)
  • The Cold Heaven (1912)
  • September 1913 (1913)
  • To a Shade (1913)
  • A Coat (1914)
  • A Drinking Song (1914)
  • Friends (1914)
  • Reconciliation (1914)
  • Running to Paradise (1914)
  • That the Night Come (1914)
  • The Coming of Wisdom with Time (1914)
  • The Dolls (1914)
  • The Fascination of What's Difficult (1914)
  • The Fisherman (1914)
  • The Magi (1914)
  • The Three Hermits (1914)
  • The Scholars (1915)
  • Easter, 1916 (1916)
  • The Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
  • An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (1919)
  • The Second Coming (1920)