Responsibilities

Responsibilities  (1916)  by William Butler Yeats

RESPONSIBILITIES

AND OTHER POEMS

BY
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

Responsibilities, 1912-1914—

Introductory Rhymes 1

The Grey Rock 3

The Two Kings 11

To a Wealthy Man 29

September 1913 32

To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing 34

Paudeen 35

To a Shade 36

When Helen lived 39

The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907 40

The Three Beggars 41

The Three Hermits 45

Beggar to Beggar Cried 47

The Well and the Tree 49

Running to Paradise 50

The Hour before Dawn 52

The Player Queen 59

The Realists 61

The Witch 62

The Peacock 63

The Mountain Tomb 64

To a Child dancing in the Wind 66

A Memory of Youth 68

Fallen Majesty 70

Friends 71

The Cold Heaven 73

That the Night come 75

An Appointment 76

The Magi 77

The Dolls 78

A Coat 80

Closing Rhymes 81

From the Green Helmet and other Poems, 1909-1912—

His Dream 85

A Woman Homer Sung 87

The Consolation 89

No Second Troy 91

Reconciliation 92

King and No King 94

Peace 96

Against Unworthy Praise 97

The Fascination of What's Difficult 99

A Drinking Song 101

The Coming of Wisdom with Time 102

On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians 103

To a Poet 104

The Mask 105

Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation 106

At the Abbey Theatre 108

These are the Clouds 110

At Galway Races 112

A Friend's Illness 113

All Things can tempt me 114

The Young Man's Song 115

The Hour-Glass—1912 117

Notes 181