This volume Early Poems collects a selection of 134 poems by William Butler Yeats, written between 1889 and 1914. Included are some of his most famous early works such as The Stolen Child, Down by the Salley Gardens, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, When You Are Old, The Song of Wandering Aengus, The Rose Upon the Rood of Time, among others. The anthology showcases Yeats’s early voice—infused with Irish folklore, mysticism, romantic sensibility—and demonstrates the evolution of his poetic themes, style, and imagery in his formative years.