Seven Poems and a Fragment

Project Gutenberg's Seven Poems and a Fragment, by William Butler Yeats This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Seven Poems and a Fragment Author: William Butler Yeats Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31959] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT *** Produced by Marius Masi, Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. THE CUALA PRESS DUNDRUM MCMXXII TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE All Souls’ Night 1 Suggested by a Picture of a Black Centaur 6 Thoughts upon the Present State of the World 7 The New Faces 14 A Prayer for My Son 14 Cuchulain the Girl and the Fool 16 The Wheel 18 A New End for ‘The King’s Threshold’ 18 NOTES Note on ‘Thoughts Upon the Present State of the World’ Section Six 23 Note on The New End to ‘The King’s Threshold’ 24 1SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT: BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. ALL SOULS’ NIGHT ’Tis All Souls’ Night and the great Christ Church bell, And many a lesser bell, sound through the room, For it is now midnight; And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel Bubble upon the table.