Poems collected under the rubric Early Poems: Ballads and Lyrics in The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Volume 1 (1908). Most of the poems were published in the collection Crossways, while others are sometimes included in the collection The Rose. - Summary by Kazbek
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
To some I have talked with by the fire. A dedication to a volume of early poems
01:38 - Chapter 2
The song of the happy shepherd
03:24 - Chapter 3
The sad shepherd
02:14 - Chapter 4
The cloak, the boat, and the shoes
01:06 - Chapter 5
Anashuya and Vijaya
07:53 - Chapter 6
The Indian upon God
02:06 - Chapter 7
The Indian to his love
01:25 - Chapter 8
The falling of the leaves
00:47 - Chapter 9
Ephemera
01:55 - Chapter 10
The madness of King Goll
04:26 - Chapter 11
The stolen child
02:37 - Chapter 12
To an isle in the water
00:50 - Chapter 13
Down by the Salley Gardens
00:57 - Chapter 14
The meditation of the old fisherman
01:17 - Chapter 15
The ballad of Father O'Hart
02:07 - Chapter 16
The ballad of Moll Magee
02:39 - Chapter 17
The ballad of the foxhunter
02:38 - Chapter 18
The ballad of Father Gilligan
02:27 - Chapter 19
The lamentation of the old pensioner
00:47 - Chapter 20
The fiddler of Dooney
01:04 - Chapter 21
The dedication to a book of stories selected from the Irish novelists
02:04