The Wind Among the Reeds
By W. B. Yeats
Cover: The Riders of the Sidhe (1911), oil on canvas by John Duncan (1866-1945) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1945)
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Yeats's 1899 book of love poems is full of Irish lore, of the sidhe, fishermen and ancient heroes, and its speakers Aedh, Michael Robartes and Hanrahan stand in for the moods of one poet. It includes The Song of Wandering Aengus and Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, without the author's notes.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: The Hosting of the Sidhe
- 2: The Everlasting Voices
- 3: The Moods
- 4: Aedh Tells of the Rose in His Heart
- 5: The Host of the Air
- 6: Breasal the Fisherman
- 7: A Cradle Song
- 8: Into the Twilight
- 9: The Song of Wandering Aengus
- 10: The Song of the Old Mother
- 11: The Fiddler of Dooney
- 12: The Heart of the Woman
- 13: Aedh Laments the Loss of Love
- 14: Mongan Laments the Change That Has Come upon Him and His Beloved
- 15: Michael Robartes Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
- 16: Hanrahan Reproves the Curlew
- 17: Michael Robartes Remembers Forgotten Beauty
- 18: A Poet to His Beloved
- 19: Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
- 20: To My Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
- 21: The Cap and Bells
- 22: The Valley of the Black Pig
- 23: Michael Robartes Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods
- 24: Aedh Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
- 25: Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty
- 26: Aedh Hears the Cry of the Sedge
- 27: Aedh Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved
- 28: The Blessed
- 29: The Secret Rose
- 30: Hanrahan Laments Because of His Wanderings
- 31: The Travail of Passion
- 32: The Poet Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends
- 33: Hanrahan Speaks to the Lovers of His Songs in Coming Days
- 34: Aedh Pleads with the Elemental Powers
- 35: Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
- 36: Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
- 37: Mongan Thinks of His Past Greatness