The Wild Swans at Coole

The Wild Swans at Coole, poem by William Butler Yeats, printed in The Little Review (June 1917) and published in a collection titled The Wild Swans at Coole (1917; enlarged, 1919). Comprising five six-line stanzas, this mature, reflective work addresses the onslaught of old age. In “The Wild Swans at Coole,” Yeats compares two visits that he made to Coole Park in County Galway, one in 1897 and the second in 1916. (This wooded park...