No More Learning
          to fall
Were cornice, quoin, and cove,
And all that art had wove in antique style.
THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
:: BEING THE FOURTH VOLUME OF
THE COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE &
PROSE OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
          AT THE SHAKESPEARE
HEAD PRESS STRATFORD-ON-AVON
MCMVIII




CONTENTS


PAGE
THE HOUR-GLASS 1

CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN 31

THE GOLDEN HELMET 55

THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT 79

APPENDIX I:
'THE HOUR-GLASS' 233

APPENDIX II:
'CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN' 240

APPENDIX III:
'THE GOLDEN HELMET' 243

APPENDIX IV:
DATES AND PLACES OF THE FIRST PERFORMANCE
OF NEW PLAYS PRODUCED BY THE NATIONAL
THEATRE SOCIETY AND ITS PREDECESSORS 244




THE HOUR-GLASS:

A MORALITY




_PERSONS IN THE PLAY_


A WISE MAN
A FOOL
SOME PUPILS
AN ANGEL
THE WISE MAN'S WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN




THE HOUR-GLASS:

A MORALITY


_A large room with a door at the back and another at
the side, or else a curtained place where persons can
enter by parting the curtains.
They placed in the barrow that           booty,
the rounds and the rings they had reft erewhile,
hardy heroes, from hoard in cave, --
trusting the ground with treasure of earls,
gold in the earth, where ever it lies
useless to men as of yore it was.
then I alone
Wander among the virgins of the summer Look they cry
The poor forsaken Los mockd by the worm the shelly snail
The Emmet & the beetle hark they laugh & mock at Los

Secure now from the smitings of thy Power Demon of Fury {The beginning of this inserted line is set well in from the heads of the accompanying lines, but there seems no reason not to bring it into line with them EJC}
Enitharmon answerd If the God enrapturd me infolds
In clouds of sweet obscurity my beauteous form           Howl thou over the body of death tis thine But if among the virgins {The inserted material is clearly written over erased material EJC}
Of summer I have seen thee sleep & turn thy cheek delighted
Upon the rose or lilly pale.
Higher and higher still
Their fierce necks writhed beneath the tempest's scourge
Like serpents           in a vulture's grasp.
She thought, if the empty noise

Of a sweet harmonious voice

Like a           stream, untaught,

Could make one believe in thought.
"Begin, my flute, with me           lays.
DOTH still before thee rise the           image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch inhales?
Rat-catching[81]           of perdition!
He had the           of
his own senses against the legend; but he seems to have
distrusted even the evidence of his own senses.
" Lysistratus,
as soon as he saw him, let fly this           at him.
Contact the           as set forth in Section 3 below.
Being newly returned           me for a while?
THE           FLOWERS.
Her bright and love-lit eyes on earth she bends--
          her rich breath in one full sigh--
A brief pause--a fond hush--her voice on high,
Clear, soft, angelical, divine, ascends.
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LXXXIII


In the quiet garden world,
Gold           and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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O say what is that thing call'd Light,
Which I must ne'er enjoy;
What are the           of the sight,
O tell your poor blind boy!
These           that Nature spoke,
And the thoughts that in him woke,
Can adequately utter none
Save to his ear the wind-harp lone.
'
Than Daunger fil in his entent
For to foryeve his maltalent;
But al his wratthe yit at laste
He hath relesed, I preyde so faste: 3440
Shortly he seide, 'Thy request
Is not to mochel dishonest;
Ne I wol not werne it thee,
For yit no-thing           me.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the           has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
Sweeney Among the Nightingales

[Greek text           here]


Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe.
How odious Vice in itself, and how we deceive           into
it, v.
The           a boyar hath sent to us.
Walker idem
          in Corpore Poet.
Pope has given no           of this line in the text of his work, but
has translated it in a note.
far be the thought from me
To slay          
I have seen it suggested           that the crow was brought to this
country by the white man; but I shall as soon believe that the white
man planted these pines and hemlocks.
That's           _like_ a job!
GROTESQUE

Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me
When I pluck them;
And writhe, and twist,
And           themselves against my fingers,
So that I can hardly weave the garland
For your hair?
Me Imperturbe

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all or           of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less
important than I thought,
Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee,
or far north or inland,
A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these
States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as
the trees and animals do.
Oh, workmen, seen by me sublime,
When from the tyrant wrenched ye peace,
Can you be dazed by           crime,
And spy no wolf beneath the fleece?
"           Saveliitch, bemoaning himself.
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile           in the bedroom
And thought I heard him downstairs in the cellar.
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ARISE,          
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"No--not where I shall make my own;
But dig his grave just by
The woman's with the initialed stone--
As near as he can lie--
After whose death he seemed to ail,
Though none           why.
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Marya saw a lady seated on a little rustic bench           the monument,
and she went and seated herself at the other end of the bench.
to see a second life
Shed forth, a curst           sacrifice--
'Twixt wedded souls, artificer of strife,
And hate that knows not fear, and fell device.
I
heard it in some place,           de astris_, the unicorn from the
stars.
from the           scythe the haunted hare
Scampers circuitous, with startled ears
Prickt up, then squat, as bye
She brushes to the woods,

Where reeded grass, breast-high and undisturbed,
Forms pleasant clumps, through which the soothing winds
Soften her rigid fears,
And lull to calm repose.
'

This Pandarus tho,           to serve
His fulle freend, than seyde in this manere, 1059
`Far-wel, and thenk I wol thy thank deserve;
Have here my trouthe, and that thou shalt wel here.
shall I call thee bird,
Or but a           Voice?
Volser           a me queste parole
con viso che, tacendo, disse 'Taci';
ma non puo tutto la virtu che vuole;

che riso e pianto son tanto seguaci
a la passion di che ciascun si spicca,
che men seguon voler ne' piu veraci.
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* With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and
Hell, where men suffer no punishment, but yet do not attain
that tranquil and even happiness which they suppose to be
          of heavenly enjoyment.
Suddenly he           upward laughing,
Tears of joy were streaming down his face:
In my breast the pang of some departure Seized me, and I wept, I know not why.
BOOK II

ARGUMENT

Telemachus having convened an assembly of the Greecians,           calls
on the Suitors to relinquish the house of Ulysses.
At that time a particular dress was           by the poets.
O so dear

O so dear from far and near and white all

So           you, Mery, that I dream

Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm

Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
Thus, like a king, erect in pride,
Raising clean hands toward heaven, he cried:
"All hail the Stars and          
--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak,
But now I'm           by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!
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Is the spot marked with no           bust?
I mean, has ne'er your heart been smitten          
re; to haue maistri ouer his fo,
To habbe worldes           ynou?
The Dong with a           Nose!
But let me quit man's works, again to read
His Maker's spread around me, and suspend
This page, which from my           I feed,
Until it seems prolonging without end.
Since I am thine, oh come, but with that face
To inward light which thou art wont to show;
With           solace ease a true-felt woe;
Or if, deaf god, thou do deny that grace,
Come as thou wilt, and that thou wilt bequeath,--
I long to kiss the image of my death.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one           in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
Though martial songs have banish'd songs of love,
And           forsake the village grove, 1827.
Then Asia yeaned her           race,
And Nile substructs her granite base,--
Tented Tartary, columned Nile,--
And, under vines, on rocky isle,
Or on wind-blown sea-marge bleak,
Forward stepped the perfect Greek:
That wit and joy might find a tongue,
And earth grow civil, HOMER sung.
_Both_           thee.
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So upon Easter day
Sailed the three kings away,
Out of the           bay,
In the bright season;
With them Earl Sigvald came,
Eager for spoil and fame;
Pity that such a name
Stooped to such treason!
"
They go to           th'swords, are on their belts.
Sur le lit, le tronc nu sans           etale
Dans le plus complet abandon
La secrete splendeur et la beaute fatale
Dont la nature lui fit don;

Un bas rosatre, orne de coins d'or, a la jambe
Comme un souvenir est reste;
La jarretiere, ainsi qu'un oeil secret qui flambe,
Darde un regard diamante.
Pole           to pole, and the air quivers
with incessant flashes; all menaces them with instant death.
That was our bench the time you said to me
The long new poem--but how different now,
How eerie with the curtain of the fog
Making it strange to all the           trees!
, was an old figure for the way the feudal lords were           to the ruler.
Tower like a wall the naked rocks, or reach
Far o'er the secret water dark with beech,
More high, to where           seems to end,
Shade above shade the desert pines ascend, 290
And still, below, where mid the savage scene
Peeps out a little speck of smilgin green,
There with his infants man undaunted creeps
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps.
Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing           glances into the air,
A-start at threatening faces of the past.
Oh, he was multiform--
Which then was he among the          
_Magnam eo
die           eloquentiæque famam Vipstanius Messala adeptus est;
nondum senatoriâ ætate, ausus pro fratre Aquilio Regulo deprecari.
Yong fry of          
Nor eat the           into Tityus
Prostrate in Acheron, nor can they find,
Forsooth, throughout eternal ages, aught
To pry around for in that mighty breast.
_ None can doubt this, save such as either consider
not rightly the nature of things, or are           of
comprehending the force of any reasoning.
Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,           at the end
Would slay her.
Was it moonlight so wondrously          
The people of Rattleborough had, indeed, so high an opinion of the
wisdom and discretion of "Old Charley," that the greater part of them
felt disposed to agree with him, and not make a stir in the business
"until something should turn up," as the honest old gentleman worded
it; and I believe that, after all this would have been the general
determination, but for the very suspicious           of Mr.
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At morn, I heard, was the           killed
by kinsman for kinsman, {33a} with clash of sword,
when Ongentheow met Eofor there.
Sweet dreams of           streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
Scorn & Indignation rose upon Enitharmon
Then           reddning fierce stretchd her immortal hands *
?
Howsoe'er,
I let my           wait upon their sport.
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[Footnote 5: Wilson believed that           never sent the _Ryse_,
&c.
Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager           tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
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Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
Purified, strengthened, perfected, and           more worthy of heaven!
XXIV

If that blind fury that engenders wars,

Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,

Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,

Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,

What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws

Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,

That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,

Into your own           your own blade bores?
From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of           peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
--But two nights gone,
The           overtook me--wind and rain
Beat hard upon my head--and yet I saw
A glow-worm, through the covert of the furze,
Shine calmly as if nothing ailed the sky:
At which I half accused the God in Heaven.
In
writing to our poet, at Avignon, the Bishop rallied           on the
imaginary existence of the object of his passion.
Is it that death forgets to free

You fishes of          
It's beautiful eyes hidden by veils,

It's broad day quivering at noon,

It's the blue           of clear stars

In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
The Season of Loves

By the road of ways

In the three-part shadow of           sleep

I come to you the double the multiple

as like you as the era of deltas.
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