The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems

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.

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.

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

See also

• List of works by William Butler Yeats

References

• Yeats, William Butler (1889). The Wanderings of Oisin, and other poems (1 ed.). London: Kegan Paul & Co.. 
• Yeats, William Butler (1990) [1985]. Collected Poems (2 ed.). London: Picador/Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9780330316385. ISBN 0-330-31638-9.