The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) is the second poetry collection of W. B. Yeats.
It includes the play The Countess Kathleen and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of The Rose in his Collected Poems.
This volume includes several of Yeats' most popular poems, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "A Faery Song," "When You are Old," and "Who Goes with Fergus." (The latter is sung by Stephen Dedalus to his mother as she lies dying in James Joyce's Ulysses.)
Many of these poems also reflect Yeats' new-discovered interest in alchemy and esotericism.
Contents
- To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
- Fergus and the Druid
- Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
- The Rose of the World
- The Rose of Peace
- The Rose of Battle
- A Faery Song
- "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (text)
- A Cradle Song
- The Pity of Love
- The Sorrow of Love
- When you are Old
- The White Birds
- A Dream of Death
- The Countess Cathleen in Paradise
- Who goes with Fergus?
- The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland
- The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
- The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
- The Ballad of Father Gilligan
- The Two Trees
- To Some I have Talked with by the Fire
- To Ireland in the Coming Times
See also
- 1892 in poetry
- List of works by William Butler Yeats
External links
- The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (archive.org)