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The Celtic Twilight, by William Butler Yeats, [1893, 1902], at sacred-texts.com


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Contents

THIS BOOK

1

A TELLER OF TALES

4

BELIEF AND UNBELIEF

8

MORTAL HELP

12

A VISIONARY

15

VILLAGE GHOSTS

23

'DUST HATH CLOSED HELEN'S EYE'

35

A KNIGHT OF THE SHEEP

50

AN ENDURING HEART

56

THE SORCERERS

61

THE DEVIL

69

HAPPY AND UNHAPPY THEOLOGIANS

71

THE LAST GLEEMAN

79

REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM, VENI

79

'AND FAIR, FIERCE WOMEN'

97

ENCHANTED WOODS

101

MIRACULOUS CREATURES

109

ARISTOTLE OF THE BOOKS

112

THE SWINE OF THE GODS

113

A VOICE

115

KIDNAPPERS

117

THE UNTIRING ONES

130

EARTH, FIRE AND WATER

135

THE OLD TOWN

137

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THE MAN AND HIS BOOTS

141

A COWARD

143

THE THREE O'BYRNES AND THE EVIL FAERIES

145

DRUMCLIFF AND ROSSES

148

THE THICK SKULL OF THE FORTUNATE

160

THE RELIGION OF A SAILOR

163

CONCERNING THE NEARNESS TOGETHER OF HEAVEN, EARTH, AND PURGATORY

165

THE EATERS OF PRECIOUS STONES

167

OUR LADY OF THE HILLS

169

THE GOLDEN AGE

173

A REMONSTRANCE WITH SCOTSMEN FOR HAVING SOURED THE DISPOSITION OF THEIR GHOSTS AND FAERIES

176

WAR

183

THE QUEEN AND THE FOOL

186

THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE OF FAERY

195

DREAMS THAT HAVE NO MORAL

208

BY THE ROADSIDE

231

INTO THE TWILIGHT

235

 


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