The Wind Among the Reeds

W. B. Yeats · 1899

First edition: London, Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W., 1899, read off the title page of the University of California Libraries copy. The volume prints 37 poems; 35 are assigned. The witness is a different printing from the corpus text, which follows a later revision, and the 1899 speaker-titles (Aedh, Hanrahan, Michael Robartes, Mongan, Breasal) were changed to "He" and to plain titles in 1906 — so most poems here matched on body rather than on title. Two of the 37 are left in the compilation: "Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings", which Yeats rewrote as "Maid Quiet" so that the 1899 words are not the corpus's words, and "Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart" (corpus: "The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart"), whose text is identical but whose long lines the 1899 setting breaks across two typeset lines, so a line-for-line match cannot see it. Neither is a missing poem; both wait on a printing that matches the text held here.

Numbers rank the poems whose position in the book is known; they are not page numbers.

  1. 1The Everlasting Voices The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  2. 2The Moods The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  3. 3Into the Twilight The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  4. 4The Song of the Old Mother The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  5. 5The Fiddler of Dooney The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  6. 6The Heart of the Woman The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  7. 7A Poet to His Beloved The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  8. 8The Blessed The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  9. 9The Travail of Passion The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  10. 10The Hosting of the Sidhe The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  11. 11A Cradle Song The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  12. ·A Lover Speaks to the Hearers of His Songs in Coming Days The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  13. ·He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  14. ·He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  15. ·He Hears the Cry of the Sedge The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  16. ·He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved and Longs for the End of the World The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  17. ·He Remembers Forgotten Beauty The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  18. ·He Reproves the Curlew The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  19. ·He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  20. ·He Tells of the Perfect Beauty The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  21. ·He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellation of Heaven The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  22. ·He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  23. ·He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  24. ·He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  25. ·The Cap and Bells The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  26. ·The Fisherman The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  27. ·The Host of the Air The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  28. ·The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  29. ·The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  30. ·The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  31. ·The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  32. ·The Secret Rose The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  33. ·The Song of Wandering Aengus The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  34. ·The Valley of the Black Pig The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
  35. ·To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear The Wind Among the Reeds 1899