The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics

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The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) is the second poetry collection of William Butler Yeats.

It includes the play The Countess Kathleen and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of The Rose in his Collected Poems.

This volume includes several of Yeats' most popular poems, including The Lake Isle of Innisfree, A Faery Song, When you are old, and Who goes with Fergus. (The latter was James Joyce's favorite lyric poem; it is the song Stephen Daedalus sings to his mother as she lies dying in Ulysses.)

Many of these poems also reflect Yeats' new-discovered interest in alchemy and esotericism.

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To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
Fergus and the Druid
Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
The Rose of the World
The Rose of Peace
The Rose of Battle
A Faery Song
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
A Cradle Song
The Pity of Love
The Sorrow of Love
When you are Old
The White Birds
A Dream of Death
The Countess Cathleen in Paradise
Who goes with Fergus?
The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland
The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
The Ballad of Father Gilligan
The Two Trees
To Some I have Talked with by the Fire
To Ireland in the Coming Times
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