The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems was the first collection of poems by W. B. Yeats. It was published in 1889. ^[1]

In addition to the title poem, the last epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes a number of short poems that Yeats would later collect under the title Crossways in his Collected Poems. ^[2]

Contents

• The Wanderings of Oisin
• The Song of the Happy Shepherd
• The Sad Shepherd
• The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
• Anashuya and Vijaya
• The Indian upon God
• The Indian to His Love
• The Falling of the Leaves
• Ephemera
• The Madness of King Goll
• The Stolen Child
• To an Isle in the Water
• Down by the Salley Gardens
• The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
• The Ballad of Father O'Hart
• The Ballad of Moll Magee
• The Ballad of the Foxhunter

See also

• List of works by William Butler Yeats

Notes

1. Yeats 1889
2. Yeats 1990: v, 523

References

• Yeats, William Butler (1889). The Wanderings of Oisin, and other poems (1 ed.). London: Kegan Paul & Co.
• Yeats, William Butler (1990) [1985]. Collected Poems (2 ed.). London: Picador/Pan Macmillan. ISBN   978-0-330-31638-5.

External links

• The collected public domain poetry of Yeats as an eBook at Standard Ebooks