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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Love Song | |
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| The Wanderings of Oisin (Book III) | |
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| The Indian to His Love | |
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| An Indian Song | |
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| Ephemera | |
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| Ephemera: An Autumn Idyl | |
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| The Stolen Child | |
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| Down by the Salley Gardens | |
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| To the Rose upon the Rood of Time | |
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| Fergus and the Druid | |
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| Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea | |
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| The Rose of the World | |
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| A Faery Song | |
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| A Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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| The Sorrow of Love | |
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| The Sorrow of Love | |
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| When You are Old | |
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| Who Goes with Fergus? | |
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| The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland | |
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| The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected form the Irish Novelists | |
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| Dedication | |
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| The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner | |
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| The Old Pensioner | |
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| The Two Trees | |
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| To Ireland in the Coming Times | |
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| [The poet, Owen Hanrahan, under a bush of may] | |
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| The Hosting of the Sidhe | |
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| The Everlasting Voices | |
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| Into the Twilight | |
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| The Song of Wandering Aengus | |
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| The Song of the Old Mother | |
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| The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love | |
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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 reproves the Curlew | |
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| He remembers forgotten Beauty | |
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| To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear | |
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| Windle-Strews: II Out of the Old Days | |
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| The Valley of the Black Pig | |
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| The Secret Rose | |
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| The Travail of Passion | |
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| The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends | |
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| The Lover speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in Coming Days | |
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| He wishes his Beloved were Dead | |
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| He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | |
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| He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven | |
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| [I walked among the seven woods of Coole] | |
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| In the Seven Woods | |
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| The Folly of Being Comforted | |
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| Adam's Curse | |
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| Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland | |
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| [Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland] | |
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| [Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland] | |
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| The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water | |
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| O Do Not Love Too Long | |
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| [The friends that have it I do wrong] | |
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| A Women Horner Sung | |
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| Words | |
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| No Second Troy | |
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| Reconciliation | |
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| Against Unworthy Praise | |
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| The Fascination of What's Difficult | |
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| The Coming of Wisdom with Time | |
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| On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature | |
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| The Mask | |
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| Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation | |
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| At the Abbey Theatre | |
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| These are the Clouds | |
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| At Galway Races | |
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| All Things can Tempt Me | |
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| Brown Penny | |
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| [Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain] | |
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| September 1913 | |
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| To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing | |
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| Paudeen | |
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| To a Shade | |
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| Beggar to Beggar Cried | |
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| Running to Paradise: I The Witch | |
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| Running to Paradise: II The Peacock | |
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| The Mountain Tomb: I To A Child Dancing in the Wind | |
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| The Mountain Tomb: II Two Years Later | |
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| A Memory of Youth | |
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| Fallen Majesty | |
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| The Cold Heaven | |
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| The Magi | |
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| A Coat | |
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| [A woman's beauty is like a white] | |
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| The Wild Swans at Coole | |
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| In Memory of Major Robert Gregory | |
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| An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | |
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| Men Improve with the Years | |
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| The Collar-Bone of a Hare | |
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| Solomon to Sheba | |
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| The Living Beauty | |
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| A Song | |
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| The Scholars | |
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| Lines Written in Dejection | |
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| The Dawn | |
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| On Woman | |
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| The Fisherman | |
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| Memory | |
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| Her Praise | |
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| The People | |
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| A Thought from Propertius | |
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| A Deep-sworn Vow | |
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| Presences | |
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| On being asked for a War Poem | |
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| Upon a Dying Lady: I Her Courtesy | |
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| Upon a Dying Lady: II Certain Artists bring her Dolls and Drawings | |
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| Upon a Dying Lady: III She turns the Dolls' Faces to the Wall | |
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| Upon a Dying Lady : IV The End of Day | |
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| Upon a Dying Lady : V Her Race | |
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| Upon a Dying Lady : VI Her Courage | |
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| Upon a Dying Lady : VII Her Fiends bring her a Christmas Tree | |
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| Ego Dominus Tuus | |
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| The Phases of the Moon | |
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| The Double Vision of Michael Robartes | |
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| Reprisals (first published in 1948) | |
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| An Image from a Past Life | |
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| Under Saturn | |
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| Easter 1916 | |
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| Sixteen Dead Men | |
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| On a Political Prisoner | |
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| The Leaders of the Crowd | |
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| The Second Coming | |
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| A Prayer for my Daughter | |
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| Sailing to Byzantium | |
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| The Tower | |
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| Meditations in Time of Civil War: I Ancestral Houses | |
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| Meditations in Time of Civil War: II My Houses | |
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| Meditations in Time of Civil War: III My Table | |
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| Meditations in Time of Civil War: IV My Descendants | |
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| Meditations in Time of Civil War: V The Road at my Door | |
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| Meditations in Time of Civil War: VI The Stare's Nest by my Window | |
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| Meditations in Time of Civil War: VII I see Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness | |
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| Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | |
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| The Wheel | |
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| The New Faces | |
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| Two Songs from a Play | |
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| Fragments | |
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| Leds and the Swan | |
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| On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac | |
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| Among School Children | |
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| The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool | |
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| Cuchulain the Girl and the Fool | |
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| All Souls' Night | |
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| In Memory of Eve Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz | |
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| Death | |
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| A Dialogue of Self and Soul | |
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| Blood and the Moon | |
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| Oil and Blood | |
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| The Nineteenth Century and After | |
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| The Seven Sages | |
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| The Crazed Moon | |
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| Cools Park, 1929 | |
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| Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 | |
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| At Algeciras - A Meditation upon Death | |
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| Byzantium | |
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| The Mother of God | |
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| Vacillation | |
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| The Resuks of Thought | |
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| Remorse for Intemperate Speech | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: I Crazy Jane and the Bishop | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: III Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: IV Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: V Crazy Jane on God | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: VI Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: VII Crazy Jane Grown Old looks at the Dancers | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: X Her Anxiety | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: XVII After Long Silence | |
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| Words for Music Perhaps: XXV The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus | |
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| A Woman Young and Old: VIII Her Vision in the Wood | |
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| A Woman Young and Old: IX A Last Confession | |
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| Parnell's Funeral | |
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| A Prayer for Old Age | |
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| Supernatural Song: I Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn | |
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| Supernatural Song: V Ribh considers Christian Love insufficient | |
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| Supernatural Song: VIII Whence had they come? | |
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| Supernatural Song: XII Meru | |
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| The Gyres | |
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| Lapis Lazuli | |
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| The Lady's First Song | |
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| The Lady's Second Song | |
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| An Acre of Grass | |
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| What Then? | |
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| Beautiful Lofty Things | |
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| A Crazed Girl | |
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| The Curse of Cromwell | |
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| The Great Day | |
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| Parnell | |
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| The Spur | |
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| The Municipal Gallery Revisited | |
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| Are You Content? | |
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| Why should not Old Men be Mad? | |
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| Crazy Jane on the Mountain | |
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| Under Ben Bulben | |
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| The Black Tower | |
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| Cuchulain Comforted | |
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| The Statues | |
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| News for the Delphic Oracle | |
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| Long-legged Fly | |
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| A Bronze Head | |
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| John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore | |
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| High Talk | |
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| The Man and the Echo | |
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| The Circus Animals' Desertion | |
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| Politics | |
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| From 'Speaking to the Psaltery' | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of First Lines | |
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| Index of Titles | |