Play · 1900

The Shadowy Waters

A dramatic poem first published by Hodder and Stoughton in December 1900 and first staged in Dublin in January 1904. Yeats rewrote it after that staging; this is the revised text as printed in the Collected Works of 1908, with the prose acting version from its appendix.

4 parts · 52 min

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  1. 1To Lady Gregory2 min
  2. 2The Harp of Aengus1 min
  3. 3The Shadowy Waters28 min
  4. 4Acting Version22 min

Text: The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, volume II (Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, 1908). Public domain.