Front matter
Reading edition
1912
First Edition............................ 1892 Second Edition (in "Poems" by W. B. Yeats) 1895 Third Edition ,, ,, 1899 Fourth Edition ,, ,, 1901 Fifth Edition ,, ,, 1904 Sixth Edition ,, ,, 1908 Seventh Edition (revised)................ 1912 (All rights reserved.)
To MAUD GONNE
"The sorrowful are dumb for thee" Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke
SHEMUS RUA, A Peasant MARY, His Wife TEIG, His Son ALEEL, A Poet THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN OONA, Her Foster Mother Two Demons disguised as Merchants Peasants, Servants, Angelical Beings, Spirits
The Scene is laid in Ireland and in old times.