Poems by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

A Faery Song
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Are you Content?
At Algeciras -- A Meditation upon Death
At Galway Races
At the Abbey Theatre
Beautiful Lofty Things
Blood and the Moon
BYZANTIUM
Closing Rhyme
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
Coole Park,1929
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markewiecz
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
In Tara's Halls
In the Seven Woods
Into the Twilight
Introductory Lines to 'The Shadowy Waters'
Introductory Rhymes
Meditations in the Time of Civil War - III. My Table
Meditations in the Time of Civil War - IV. My Descendants
Meditations in the Time of Civil War - V. The Road at My Door
Meditations in the Time of Civil War - VI. The Stare's Nest by My Window
Meditations in Time of Civil War - II. My House
Meditations in Time of Civil War - VII. I see Phantoms of Hatred...
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland
Remorse for Intemperate Speech
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM
Stream and Sun at Glendalough
The Ballad of Father O'Hart
The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
The Fiddler of Dooney
The Host of the Air
The Hosting of the Sidhe
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland
The Municipal Gallery Revisited
The Pilgrim
The Second Coming
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Statues
The Stolen Child
The Tower
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
Three Songs to the One Burden
To a Shade
To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-no
To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
To Ireland in the Coming Times
Under Ben Bulben - VI
Under Saturn
Under the Round Tower
Words for Music Perhaps - XX, XXI

The poetry of William Butler Yeats is steeped in Ireland, its country, towns, people and culture. Much of his work is inspired by and brings alive the West of Ireland, places in Sligo and Galway where he spent much of his life and where he is buried. Other work evokes events and locations in the city of Dublin, or Irish holy sites and historic places such as Tara, St Patrick's Purgatory and the Rock of Cashel. In their citation for Yeats' Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, the Nobel Committee said his work was "inspired poetry, which which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

William Butler Yeats is one of the greatest poets in the English language. His poetry is rooted in the geography and history of Ireland. He wrote many poems about places.