William Butler Yeats, selected poetry

William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet and dramatist

Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick for studying poetry.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Lake Isle of Innisfree e-text

The Fisherman

The Fisherman e-text

Easter 1916

Easter, 1916 e-text

Easter Lily, published under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license by author UpstateNYer

Where My Books Go

Where My Books Go e-text

Aedh Wishes for the Coths of Heaven

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven e-text

Young Girl, Spielendes Maedchen, by Hubert Golz


Prayer for my Daughter

A Prayer for My Daughter e-text

Blood and the Moon

Blood and the Moon e-text

Oil and Blood

Oil and Blood e-text

Vetheuil in Winter by Claude Monet

The Wheel

The Wheel e-text

The Magi

The Magi e-text

The Cradle by Berthe Morisot

A Cradle Song

A Cradle Song

THE angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.
God’s laughing in Heaven
To see you so good;
The Sailing Seven
Are gay with His mood.
I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.

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