The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics

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

It includes the play The Countess Cathleen 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 last is sung by Stephen Dedalus to his mother as she lies dying in James Joyce's Ulysses.)

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

Contents

 * Preface
 * The Countess Kathleen
 * To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
 * Fergus and the Druid
 * The Rose of the World
 * The Peace of the Rose
 * The Death of Cuchullin
 * The White Birds
 * Father Gilligan
 * Father O'Hart
 * When You Are Old
 * The Sorrow of Love
 * The Ballad of the Old Foxhunter
 * A Fairy Song
 * The Pity of Love
 * "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (text)
 * A Cradle Song
 * The Man who Dreamed of Fairy Land
 * Dedication of Irish Tales
 * The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
 * When You are Sad
 * The Two Trees
 * They Went Forth to the Battle, But They Always Fell
 * An Epitaph
 * Apologia Addressed to Ireland in the Coming Days
 * Notes