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CONTENTS include a preface by the author, end notes and the following poems:

The Wild Swans at Coole

In Memory of Major Robert Gregory

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An Irish Airman foresees his Death

Men improve with the Years

The Collar-bone of a Hare Under the Round Tower

Solomon to Sheba

The Living Beauty

A Song To a Young Beauty

To a Young Girl

The Scholars Tom O'Roughley

The Sad Shepherd

Lines written in Dejection

The Dawn

On Woman

The Fisherman

The Hawk Memory

Her Praise

The People

His Phoenix

A Thought from Propertius

Broken Dreams

A Deep-sworn Vow

Presences

The Balloon of the Mind

To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-gno

On being asked for a War Poem

In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen

Upon a Dying Lady

Ego Dominus Tuus

A Prayer on going into my House

The Phases of the Moon The Cat and the Moon

The Saint and the Hunchback

Two Songs of a Fool

Another Song of a Fool

The Double Vision of Michael Robartes

Audience
adult
Length
short · 146 pages

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