| Introduction | 1 |
| Down by the Salley Gardens | 27 |
| The White Birds | 27 |
| The Sorrow of Love | 28 |
| When You are Old | 28 |
| The Rose of the World | 29 |
| The Pity of Love | 29 |
| The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers | 30 |
| The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart | 30 |
| The Cap and Bells | 31 |
| Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland | 32 |
| He bids his Beloved be at Peace | 33 |
| He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes | 33 |
| A Poet to his Beloved | 34 |
| He tells of the Perfect Beauty | 34 |
| He remembers Forgotten Beauty | 35 |
| The Secret Rose | 36 |
| He reproves the Curlew | 37 |
| He mourns for the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World | 37 |
| The Song of Wandering Aengus | 38 |
| He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven | 39 |
| He hears the Cry of the Sedge | 39 |
| He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | 40 |
| The Harp of Aengus | 40 |
| Baile and Aillinn | 41 |
| The Arrow | 49 |
| Adam's Curse | 49 |
| The Folly of Being Comforted | 50 |
| [Unpublished Lines, written after Maud Gonne married John MacBride] | 51 |
| Never Give all the Heart | 51 |
| No Second Troy | 52 |
| Peace | 52 |
| Against Unworthy Praise | 53 |
| Brown Penny | 53 |
| Friends | 54 |
| Fallen Majesty | 55 |
| A Memory of Youth | 55 |
| The Two Kings | 56 |
| A Thought from Propertius | 64 |
| Her Praise | 64 |
| His Phoenix | 65 |
| A Deep-sworn Vow | 66 |
| Broken Dreams | 66 |
| Owen Aherne and his Dancers | 69 |
| Solomon to Sheba | 70 |
| Solomon and the Witch | 71 |
| An Image from a Past Life | 72 |
| A Prayer for my Daughter | 74 |
| The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid | 77 |
| Leda and the Swan | 83 |
| Notes | 84 |
| Index to Titles | 118 |
| Index to First Lines | 119 |