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The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems  
Author(s) William Butler Yeats
Original title The Wanderings of Oisin, and other poems
Country England
Language English
Genre(s) Epic poetry
Lyrical poetry
Publisher Kegan Paul & Co.
Publication date 1889
Media type Print
Pages vi + 156 pp.
Preceded by Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Followed by Representative Irish Tales

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems was the first collection of poems by William Butler Yeats. It was published in 1889.[1]

In addition to the title poem, the last epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes a number of short poems that Yeats would later collect under the title Crossways in his Collected Poems.[2]

Contents[]

  • The Wanderings of Oisin
  • The Song of the Happy Shepherd
  • The Sad Shepherd
  • The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
  • Anashuya and Vijaya
  • The Indian upon God
  • The Indian to His Love
  • The Falling of the Leaves
  • Ephemera
  • The Madness of King Goll
  • The Stolen Child
  • To an Isle in the Water
  • Down by the Salley Gardens
  • The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
  • The Ballad of Father O'Hart
  • The Ballad of Moll Magee
  • The Ballad of the Foxhunter

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