The Rose of Battle

Poem by W. B. Yeats

The Rose of Battle is a poem by William Butler Yeats, from his second poetry collection: The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892).

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The Rose of Battle

## Popular culture

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The title of Libba Bray's novel The Sweet Far Thing comes from a line in The Rose of Battle.

## External links

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* The collected public domain poetry of Yeats as an eBook at Standard Ebooks
* The Rose of Battle at kalliope.org

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W. B. Yeats

Poetry|

| Volumes|

* The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)
* The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892)
* In the Seven Woods (1903)
* Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916)
* The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
* Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
* The Tower (1928)
* The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

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Poems|

* "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
* "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
* "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
* "Adam's Curse"
* "Blood and the Moon"
* "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
* "Down by the Salley Gardens"
* "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety"
* "Easter, 1916"
* "Ego Dominus Tuus"
* "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz"
* "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
* "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen"
* "On being asked for a War Poem"
* "Politics"
* "A Prayer for My Daughter"
* "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"
* "The Rose of Battle"
* "The Rose-Tree"
* "Sailing to Byzantium"
* "September 1913"
* "Song of the Old Mother"
* "The Fiddler of Dooney"
* "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid"
* "The Scholars"
* "The Second Coming"
* "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
* "The Stolen Child"
* "Swift's Epitaph"
* "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time"
* "The Tower"
* "Under Ben Bulben
* "The Wanderings of Oisin"
* "The Wild Swans at Coole"

Plays|

* Mosada (1886)
* The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
* Diarmuid and Grania (1901)
* Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
* On Baile's Strand (1903)
* The Countess Cathleen (1911)
* At the Hawk's Well (1916)
* The Resurrection (1927)
* Purgatory (1938)

Other works|

* The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author)
* A Vision (1925)
* The Bounty of Sweden (1925)
* "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows"
* Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor)

People|

* Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
* Anne Yeats (daughter)
* Michael Yeats (son)
* John Butler Yeats (father)
* Susan Pollexfen (mother)
* Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
* Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
* Lily Yeats (sister)
* Maud Gonne (lover)

Related|

* W. B. Yeats bibliography
* Rhymers' Club
* Dun Emer Press
* Cuala Press
* An Appointment with Mr Yeats
* "Troy"
* Thoor Ballylee
* Samhain magazine

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