OTHER WORKS OF
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
| Poems and Plays, 2 volumes: I—Lyrics. $2.00. II—DRAMATIC POEMS. $2.00. |
| The Celtic Twilight. $1.50. |
| Ideas of Good and Evil. $1.50. |
| Stories of Red Hanrahan. $1.25. |
| Reveries over Childhood and Youth. Illustrated. $2.00. |
| Responsibilities and Other Poems. $1.25. |
| The Tables of the Law. $1.25. |
| The Hour Glass and Other Plays. $1.25. |
| The Green Helmet and Other Poems. $1.25. |
| The Cutting of an Agate. $1.50. |
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION
BY
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1918,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1918.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
My Dear “Maurice”—You will remember that afternoon in Calvados lastsummer when your black Persian “Minoulooshe,” who had walked behind us fora good mile, heard a wing flutter in a bramble-bush? For a long time wecalled her endearing names in vain. She seemed resolute to spend her nightamong the brambles. She had interrupted a conversation, often interruptedbefore, upon certain thoughts so long habitual that I may be permitted tocall them my convictions. When I came back to London my mind ran again andagain to those conversations and I could not rest till I had written outin this little book all that I had said or would have said. Read it someday when “Minoulooshe” is asleep.
W. B. YEATS.
May 11, 1917.
| Hic |
| On the grey sand beside the shallow stream, Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on above the open book That Michael Robartes left, you walk in the moon, And, though you have passed the best of life, still trace, Enthralled by the unconquerable delusion, Magical shapes. |
| Ille |
| By the help of an image I call to my own opposite, summon all That I have handled least, least looked upon. |
| [Pg 10] |