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The Realists 788 ViewsRate it
Before The World Was Made
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A Prayer For Old Age
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For Anne Gregory
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The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner
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Fallen Majesty
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The Song Of The Old Mother
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Those Images
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A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety
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Peace
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Another Song Of A Fool
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The New Faces
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Sweet Dancer
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The Lover Speaks To The Hearers Of His Songs In Coming Days
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Down By The Salley Gardens
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A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness 410 ViewsRate it
A Nativity 408 ViewsRate it
The Travail Of Passion
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A Song
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The Valleys Of The Black Pig
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Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes
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Aedh Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
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He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
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The Magi
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He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers
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Remorse For Intemperate Speech 401 ViewsRate it
The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes 400 ViewsRate it
The Scholars
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Men Improve With The Years
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Quarrel In Old Age 392 ViewsRate it
A Dream Of Death
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He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
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All Things Can Tempt Me 388 ViewsRate it
The Lady's Third Song
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Stream And Sun At Glendalough 385 ViewsRate it
Church And State
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Two Years Later 381 ViewsRate it
An Appointment
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A First Confession 375 ViewsRate it
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
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To An Isle In The Water 371 ViewsRate it
Love Song
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Who Goes With Fergus?
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Lines Written In Dejection
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Parting
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The Mask
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The Three Monuments 360 ViewsRate it
Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment
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The Results Of Thought 352 ViewsRate it
Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped, 348 ViewsRate it
The Valley of the Black Pig
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A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring
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A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare
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Crazy Jane Reproved
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The Cloak, The Boat, And The Shoes 342 ViewsRate it
Paudeen
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The Living Beauty
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The Heart Of The Woman
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Young Man's Song 328 ViewsRate it
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing
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Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped 318 ViewsRate it
The Second Coming
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The Falling Of The Leaves
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Leda And The Swan
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A Dialogue Of Self And Soul
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The Nineteenth Century And After 272 ViewsRate it
Her Anxiety
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Meditations In Time Of Civil War
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O Do Not Love Too Long
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Vacilliation
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A Last Confession
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He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
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Among School Children
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Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
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News For The Delphic Oracle
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The Cat And The Moon
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His Confidence
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In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
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A Memory Of Youth
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Fergus And The Druid
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A Meditation In Time Of War
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The Rose Tree
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When You Are Old
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Never Give All The Heart
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A Deep-Sworn Vow 154 ViewsRate it
The Ballad Of Moll Magee
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He Reproves The Curlew
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King And No King
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Maid Quiet
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On Being Asked For A War Poem 151 ViewsRate it
The Cold Heaven
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Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation
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Friends
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On Woman
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An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
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Mad As The Mist And Snow
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The Tower
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Words For Music Perhaps
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Father And Child
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The Wild Old Wicked Man
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A Coat 142 ViewsRate it
A Prayer On Going Into My House
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No Second Troy
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A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity
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Mohini Chatterjee
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On Those That Hated 'The Playboy Of The Western World' 141 ViewsRate it
The Choice 141 ViewsRate it
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
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Lapis Lazuli
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The Hawk
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A Drinking Song 138 ViewsRate it
The Curse Of Cromwell
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The Seven Sages
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A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid 137 ViewsRate it
His Phoenix
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Running To Paradise
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The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers
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To be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee 136 ViewsRate it
A Prayer For My Daughter
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A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth
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Michael Robartes and the Dancer
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The Lover's Song 134 ViewsRate it
Those Dancing Days Are Gone
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Under Ben Bulben
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To A Child Dancing In The Wind
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On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac
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The Wanderings of Oisin: Book III
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A Man Young And Old: V. The Empty Cup 132 ViewsRate it
The Countess Cathleen In Paradise
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The Host Of The Air
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Form the Green Helmet And Other Poems
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On Those That Hated The 'Playboy Of The Western World,' 1907 131 ViewsRate it
A Crazed Girl 130 ViewsRate it
A Statesman's Holiday
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Crazy Jane On The Mountain 130 ViewsRate it
The Song Of Wandering Aengus
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Three Songs To The Same Tune
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Introductory Lines (The Shadowy Waters)
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Me Peacock 129 ViewsRate it
The Chambermaid's First Song
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In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen
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The Coming Of Wisdom With Time
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The Rose Of Peace
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A Woman homer Sung
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From A Full Moon In March
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Statistics 127 ViewsRate it
The Gyres
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The Lady's First Song 127 ViewsRate it
The Mountain Tomb
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He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved, And Longs For The End Of The World
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He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
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Narrative And Dramatic The Wanderings Of Oisin
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A Poet To His Beloved
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Demon And Beast
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The Two Trees
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Under The Round Tower
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Her Dream
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The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus
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The Saint And The Hunchback
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To A Shade
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What Then?
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Against Unworthy Praise
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The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland
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Are You Content?
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Imitated From The Japanese
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A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old
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Sailing To Byzantium
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The Balloon Of The Mind 120 ViewsRate it
The Wheel
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Beautiful Lofty Things 119 ViewsRate it
Into The Twilight
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The Fish
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Old Tom Again 118 ViewsRate it
The Great Day 118 ViewsRate it
A Woman Young And Old
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He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved
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His Dream
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The Gift Of Harun Al-Rashid
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Beggar To Beggar Cried
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Cuchulain Comforted
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The Wanderings of Oisin: Book I
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The Wild Swans At Coole
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To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were Proved The People Wanted Pictures
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The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus
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The Stolen Child
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The Harp Of Aengus
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Three Marching Songs
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The Madness Of King Goll
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The Winding Stair
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Ego Dominus Tuus
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The Fairy Pendant
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To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
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When Helen Lived 112 ViewsRate it
Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors 111 ViewsRate it
Responsibilities - Introduction
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The Everlasting Voices
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These Are The Clouds
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Two Songs From a Play
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Reconciliation
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The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves 110 ViewsRate it
Tom the Lunatic
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Youth And Age
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On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literat 109 ViewsRate it
To A Young Beauty
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The People
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The Unappeasable Host
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The Withering Of The Boughs
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The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes
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The Happy Townland
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The Winding Stair And Other Poems
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Death
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The Hosting Of The Sidhe
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Sixteen Dead Men 105 ViewsRate it
A Man Young And Old: VI. His Memories
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At Galway Races
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The Rose Of The World
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A Man Young And Old: XI. From Oedipus At Colonus
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Alternative Song For The Severd head In "The King Of The Great Clock Tower" 104 ViewsRate it
Broken Dreams
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I Am Of Ireland 104 ViewsRate it
The Attack on ‘The Playboy of the Western World,’ 1907 104 ViewsRate it
Crazy Jane And The Bishop
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Swift's Epitaph
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The Dolls
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He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty
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Long-Legged Fly
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Solomon To Sheba
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The Song Of The Happy Shepherd
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To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
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Baile And Aillinn
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Brown Penny
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Ephemera
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In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz
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The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman
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The O'Rahilly
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To A Young Girl
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Lullaby
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Responsibilities - Closing 98 ViewsRate it
A Man Young And Old
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Memory
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John Kinsella's Lament For Mr. Mary Moore
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Faery Song 96 ViewsRate it
Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland
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Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers
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Presences
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The Fisherman
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The Grey Rock
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The Sad Shepherd
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To be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee 95 ViewsRate it
At Algeciras - A Meditaton Upon Death
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The Peacock 93 ViewsRate it
Consolation
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Solomon And The Witch
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The Shadowy Waters: Introductory Lines
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Anashuya And Vijaya
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Chosen
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Coole Park, 1929
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September
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The Ballad of Father Gilligan
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The Municipal Gallery Revisited
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The Old Age Of Queen Maeve
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The Three Bushes
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Fragments 90 ViewsRate it
The Pilgrim
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Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop
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In Tara's Halls
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The White Birds
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Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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Blood And The Moon
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Hound Voice
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Oil And Blood 88 ViewsRate it
Three Things
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On A Political Prisoner
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The Ballad Of The Foxhunter
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The Chambermaid's Second Song
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To Songs Of A Fool
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Veronica's Napkin
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A Lover's Quarrel Among the Fairies
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The Arrow 86 ViewsRate it
The Fool By The RoadSide 86 ViewsRate it
The Three Beggars
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A Dramatic Poem
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A Friend's Illness
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An Acre Of Grass
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The Black Tower
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The Fascination Of What's Difficult
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The Moods 85 ViewsRate it
Where My Books go 85 ViewsRate it
From The 'Antigone'
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A Bronze Head
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Adam's Curse
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Her Vision In The Wood
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The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods
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The Rose Of Battle
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The Secret Rose
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Wisdom
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An Image From A Past Life
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Her Praise 81 ViewsRate it
Meeting
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September 1913
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Supernatural Songs
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The Dancer At Cruachan And Cro-Patrick
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The Spur 80 ViewsRate it
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine 80 ViewsRate it
The Cap And Bells
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The Dedication To A Book Of Stories
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Under The Moon
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All Souls' Night
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Drinking Song 78 ViewsRate it
He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
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The Phases Of The Moon
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The Three Hermits
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The Witch 77 ViewsRate it
To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were
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A Stick Of Incense 76 ViewsRate it
His Bargain 76 ViewsRate it
That The Night Come
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A Faery Song 75 ViewsRate it
Byzantium
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Politics
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The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love
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The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart
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High Talk
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The Wanderings of Oisin: Book II
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The Mother Of God
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The Pity Of Love
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The Apparitions 72 ViewsRate it
He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace
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Old Memory
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Colonel Martin
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Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman
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The Spirit Medium
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The Statues
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To Ireland In The Coming Times
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Man And The Echo
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Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
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The Fiddler Of Dooney
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Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune's Sake
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In The Seven Woods
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A Model For The Laureate
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Easter, 1916
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The Shadowy Waters: The Shadowy Waters
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Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
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The Indian To His Love
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Towards Break Of Day
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The Lady's Second Song
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Three Movements 64 ViewsRate it
To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No 64 ViewsRate it
A Cradle Song 63 ViewsRate it
A Man Young And Old: I. First Love
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A Prayer For My Son
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Love's Loneliness
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After Long Silence
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The Crazed Moon
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The Leaders Of The Crowd 61 ViewsRate it
The Dawn
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The Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists
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The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends 60 ViewsRate it
What Was Lost
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At The Abbey Theatre
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Colonus' Praise
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The Ballad Of Father O'Hart
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The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water
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The Rose in the Deeps of his Heart
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The Sorrow Of Love
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The Circus Animals' Desertion
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Two Songs of a Fool
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Under Saturn
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Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931
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Shepherd And Goatheard
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The Collar-Bone Of A Hare
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Upon A Dying Lady
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To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire
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Tom At Cruachan
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The Two Kings
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Her Triumph
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The Folly Of Being Comforted
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The Ragged Wood
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Crazy Jane On God 50 ViewsRate it
Spilt Milk 50 ViewsRate it
The Man And The Echo
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Words 49 ViewsRate it
The Old Stone Cross
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Girl's Song 47 ViewsRate it
Symbols 47 ViewsRate it
The Hour Before Dawn
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The Statesman's Holiday
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A Thought From Propertius 46 ViewsRate it
Owen Aherne And His Dancers
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Parnell's Funeral
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He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven
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The Blessed
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To Dorothy Wellesley
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The Indian Upon God
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Tom O'Roughley
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The Ghost Of Roger Casement
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The Shadowy Waters
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A Song From "The Player Queen" 41 ViewsRate it
Shepherd And Goatherd
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On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature 39 ViewsRate it
Three Songs To The One Burden
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A Man Young And Old:- The Death Of The Hare
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