The Celtic TwilightIreland is home to some of the world's most enchanting myths and tales. But many of these stories would have been lost if they hadn't been recorded and written down. Poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats was one of these fortunate witnesses. In "The Celtic Twilight," originally published in 1893, he collected some of the most delightful myths and folktales of his native land. |
Contents
A TELLER OF TALES | 4 |
MORTAL HELP | 11 |
VILLAGE GHOSTS | 20 |
DUST HATH CLOSED HELENS EYE | 31 |
A KNIGHT OF THE SHEEP | 45 |
THE SORCERERS | 55 |
THE DEVIL | 62 |
THE LAST GLEEMAN | 72 |
MIRACULOUS CREATURES | 101 |
KIDNAPPERS | 110 |
THE UNTIRING ONES | 122 |
THE OLD TOWN | 129 |
A COWARD | 135 |
Contents THE THREE OBYRNES AND THE EVIL FAERIES | 137 |
HEAVEN EARTH AND PURGATORY | 156 |
HAVING SOURED THE DISPOSITION | 167 |
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Page 3 - ... their way unoffended or defended by any argument of mine. The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me. Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate...