Rose

William Butler Yeats

This recording of Yeats' second poetry collection follows The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (1908), which places four of the poems sometimes included in The Rose under a different rubric. Those poems have been recorded in the collection Early Ballads and Lyrics. The Rose contains some of Yeats' best-known verses, including The Lake Isle of Innisfree. - Summary by Kazbek (0 hr 37 min)

Chapters

To the rose upon the rood of time	2:29
Fergus and the Druid	3:15
The death of Cuchulain	6:46
The rose of the world	1:12
The rose of peace	1:02
The rose of battle	2:46
A faery song	1:14
The lake isle of Innisfree	1:24
A cradle song	0:45
The song of the old mother	1:00
The pity of love	0:42
The sorrow of love	1:09
When you are old	1:13
The white birds	1:40
A dream of death	0:57
A dream of a blessed spirit	1:12
The man who dreamed of Faeryland	3:35
The two trees	2:26
To Ireland in the coming times	2:58