...The Collected Poems William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHE... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 ii THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS A CRADLE SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 THE COLD HEA VEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 THAT T... ...AT KYLE NA NO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 IN MEMORY OF ALFRED POLLEXFEN ... ... ON A POLITICAL PRISONER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 THE LEADERS OF THE CROWD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 TOWARDS BREA... ...DAUGHTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 A MEDITATION IN TIME OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOO... ...rs that pass — Seek, then, for this is also sooth, No word of theirs — the cold star bane Has cloven and rent their hearts in twain, And dead is all t... ... IN MEMORY OF ALFRED POLLEXFEN FIVE AND TWENTY years have gone Since old William Pollexfen Laid his strong bones down in death By his wife Elizabeth... ... While under its storm beaten breast Cried out the hollows of the sea. THE LEADERS OF THE CROWD THEY must to keep their certainty accuse All that are ...

...from the starry men, Who follow with the optic glass The whirling ways of stars that pass--Seek, then, for this is also sooth, No word of theirs--the cold star-bane Has cloven and rent their hearts in twain, And dead is all their human truth....