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The Tower

The Tower

by W. B. Yeats

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About this eBook

Author
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Title
The tower
Original Publication
London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1928.
Credits
Produced by Christopher Hapka. Images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library.
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- Irish authors
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 72985
Release Date
February 18, 2024
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Tower
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.Sailing to Byzantium — I — II — III — IV
  4. 4.The Tower — I — II — III
  5. 5.Meditations in Time of Civil War — I Ancestral Houses — II My House — III My Table — IV My Descendants — V The Road at My Door — VI The Stare’s Nest by My Window — VII I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
  6. 6.Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
  7. 7.The Wheel
  8. 8.Youth and Age
  9. 9.The New Faces
  10. 10.A Prayer for My Son
  11. 11.Two Songs from a Play — I — II
  12. 12.Wisdom
  13. 13.Leda and the Swan
  14. 14.On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmond Dulac
  15. 15.Among School Children — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII
  16. 16.Colonus’ Praise — (From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’) — Chorus
  17. 17.The Hero, The Girl, and The Fool — The Girl — The Hero — The Girl — The Hero — The Girl — The Fool by the Roadside
  18. 18.Owen Ahern and His Dancers — I — II
  19. 19.A Man Young and Old — First Love — Human Dignity — The Mermaid — The Death of the Hare — The Empty Cup — His Memories — The Friends of His Youth — Summer and Spring — The Secrets of the Old — His Wildness
  20. 20.The Three Monuments
  21. 21.From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ — I — II — III — IV
  22. 22.The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid
  23. 23.All Souls’ Night — An Epilogue to ‘A Vision’
  24. 24.NOTES — SAILING TO BYZANTIUM — Stanza IV — THE TOWER. Part II — THE TOWER. Part III — The Dying Swan — MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR — Section Six — Section Seven, Stanza II — Section Seven, Stanza IV — NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN — Section Six — TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY — AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN — Stanza III — THE GIFT OF HARUN AL-RASHID

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