W.B Yeats' best poems

9 of the best poems by Irish poet W.B. Yeats.


William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.



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1. When You Are Old

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2. The Second Coming

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3. Leda and the Swan

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4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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5. Easter 1916

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6. An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

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7. The Wild Swans at Coole

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8. The Song of Wandering Aengus

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9. He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven

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