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1
Crossways and The Rose were not published as individual volumes; these titles were established by Yeats in the volume Poems (1895).
2
The Hindu god of love.
3
Irish poet.
4
A sorceress.
5
Willow.
6
Fish basket.
7
Upstart. [Yeats]
8
Mean fellows. [Yeats]
9
Hired mourners.
10
sea.
11
Lane.
12
“Too late I loved you, Beauty so old and so new! Too late I loved you.”
13
An Irish hero of the Red Branch (or Ulster) cycle of tales.
14
A king of Ulster; another figure from the Red Branch cycle.
15
Stepson of Fergus, later King of Ulster.
16
Cuchulain’s wife.
17
Naoise, Ainle and Ardan; they were executed by Conchubar (Concobar).
18
Lovers in the Fenian cycle of tales; Diarmuid was killed by Finn for having eloped
with his future bride.
19
Fairy.
20
A cry of lamentation.
21
Verse.
22
Nineteenth-century Irish writers.
23
Ancient Irish gods, the Tribes of the goddess Danu.
24
Caolte and Niamh (a beautiful woman) were among the Sidhe.
25
Aedh, along with Hanrahan and Michael Robartes, is a figure in Yeats’s book of stories
The Secret Rose (1897).
26
The Virgin Mary.
27
A legendary Irish sorcerer and king.
28
Wife of the god of the sea.
29
Mound.
30
Kidron (or Kedron) flows between the Mount of Olives and Jerusalem.
31
Girls.
32
The realm of the happy dead.
33
An allegorical name for Ireland.
34
Queen of Connacht.
35
The forest in which Merlin was bewitched by Viviane.
36
Ulster.
37
Fand’s sister.
38
Confucius.
39
An Irish patriot, executed in 1803.
40
Inn frequented by Samuel Johnson, here referring to the Rhymers’ Club, to which
Yeats belonged.
41
An ancient Irish god.
42
Ernest Dowson and Lionel Johnson, members of the Rhymers’ Club.
43
A warrior-queen of Scotland; also an Irish goddess.
44
The crowd; “Paudeen” has the same meaning.
45
A fifteenth-century Italian duke and patron of the arts.
46
A fifteenth-century Italian duke.
47
Cosimo de’ Medici, a fifteenth-century Florentine politician.
48
A Florentine architect.
49
John O’Leary (1830—1907), an Irish patriot and friend of Yeats’s father.
50
A member of the United Irishmen; he died in 1798 from wounds received during his
arrest.
51
Founder of the United Irish Club; he committed suicide in prison, in 1798.
52
The Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846—1891).
53
(?) Fish food.
54
A seventh-century king of Connacht.
55
Beating.
56
Maeve’s sons.