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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
From a pen-and-ink sketch by John B. Yeats, R.H.A.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

AND OTHER POEMS

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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO • DALLAS
ATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA. Ltd.
TORONTO

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RESPONSIBILITIES

AND OTHER POEMS

BY
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916

All rights reserved

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Copyright. 1911
By WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Copyright, 1904, 1908, and 1912
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1916
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916.

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CONTENTS.

 
 
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Responsibilities, 1912–1914—

Introductory Rhymes
1
The Grey Rock
3
The Two Kings
11
To a Wealthy Man
29
September 1913
32
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing
34
Paudeen
35
To a Shade
36
When Helen lived
39
The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907
40
The Three Beggars
41
The Three Hermits
45
Beggar to Beggar Cried
47
The Well and the Tree
49
Running to Paradise
50
The Hour before Dawn
52
The Player Queen
59
The Realists
61
The Witch
62
The Peacock
63
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The Mountain Tomb
64
To a Child dancing in the Wind
66
A Memory of Youth
68
Fallen Majesty
70
Friends
71
The Cold Heaven
73
That the Night come
75
An Appointment
76
The Magi
77
The Dolls
78
A Coat
80
Closing Rhymes
81

From the Green Helmet and other Poems, 1909–1912—

His Dream
85
A Woman Homer Sung
87
The Consolation
89
No Second Troy
91
Reconciliation
92
King and No King
94
Peace
96
Against Unworthy Praise
97
The Fascination of What's Difficult
99
A Drinking Song
101
The Coming of Wisdom with Time
102
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians
103
To a Poet
104
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The Mask
105
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
106
At the Abbey Theatre
108
These are the Clouds
110
At Galway Races
112
A Friend's Illness
113
All Things can tempt me
114
The Young Man's Song
115
The Hour-Glass—1912
117
Notes
181

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'In dreams begins responsibility.'
Old Play.

'How am I fallen from myself, for a long time now
I have not seen the Prince of Chang in my dreams.'
Khoung-fou-tseu.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

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