Selected Poems and Two Plays
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Near Fine Soft cover Text/folded corner to pg 13, else NEW. Softcove/NF w/light edge wear. Anthology. Collection of 195 poems and two verse plays from Irish and British world of literature from William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years a two-term Irish Senator. 236 pgs. 2 1. Calvaryn(1921), and 2, Purgatory (1939). Selected poem 1, Crossways (1889); 2, The Rose (1893); 3, The Wind Among the Reeds (1899); 4, The Seven Woods (1904); 5, The Green Helmet & Other Poems (1910); 6, Responsibilities (1914); 7, The Wild Swans at Coole (1919); 8, The Winding Star & Other Poems (1933); 9, Words for Music Perhaps; 10, A Woman Young & Old; 11, A Full Moon in March; and 12, Last Poems (1936 - 1939). As ancients review their "I heard the old, old men say/ 'Everything alters/ And one by one we drop away"/ They had hands like clawsm and their knees/ Were twisted like like the old thorn-trees/ By the waters/ I heard the old, old men say/ 'Al that's beautiful drifts away/ Like the waters".