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Responsibilities

Public domain audiobook

Responsibilities

by William Butler Yeats

English· 01:04:34· 28 chapters
Responsibilities is a collection of poetry by W.B. Yeats, originally published in 1914 together with a play. The 1916 edition used for this recording combines them with some poems from The Green Helmet and Other Poems, which can be found in the previous installment of the series:

Early Ballads and Lyrics
The Rose
The Wind Among the Reeds
In the Seven Woods
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Introductory Rhymes

    02:14
  2. Chapter 2

    The Grey Rock

    07:47
  3. Chapter 3

    The Two Kings

    15:59
  4. Chapter 4

    To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were Proved The People Wanted Pictures

    02:19
  5. Chapter 5

    September 1913

    02:01
  6. Chapter 6

    To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing

    01:01
  7. Chapter 7

    Paudeen

    00:58
  8. Chapter 8

    To A Shade

    02:02
  9. Chapter 9

    When Helen Lived

    00:47
  10. Chapter 10

    The Three Beggars

    03:46
  11. Chapter 11

    The Three Hermits

    01:48
  12. Chapter 12

    Beggar To Beggar Cried

    01:27
  13. Chapter 13

    The Well And The Tree

    00:55
  14. Chapter 14

    Running To Paradise

    01:43
  15. Chapter 15

    The Hour Before Dawn

    06:39
  16. Chapter 16

    The Player Queen

    01:16
  17. Chapter 17

    The Realists

    00:34
  18. Chapter 18

    I. The Witch

    00:33
  19. Chapter 19

    II. The Peacock

    00:43
  20. Chapter 20

    The Mountain Tomb

    01:05
  21. Chapter 21

    To A Child Dancing In The Wind

    01:32
  22. Chapter 22

    A Memory Of Youth

    01:26
  23. Chapter 23

    Fallen Majesty

    00:57
  24. Chapter 24

    An Appointment

    00:53
  25. Chapter 25

    I. The Magi

    00:59
  26. Chapter 26

    II. The Dolls

    01:13
  27. Chapter 27

    A Coat

    00:41
  28. Chapter 28

    Closing Rhymes

    01:16