Swift's Epitaph - The Original Latin Version of Swift's Epitaph

The Original Latin Version of Swift's Epitaph

Hic depositum est corpus
JONATHAN SWIFT S.T.D.
Huyus Ecclesiae Cathedralis
Decani
Ubi saeva indignatio
Ulterius
Cor lacerare nequit
Abi Viator
Et imitare, si poteris
Strenuum pro virili
Libertatis Vindicatorem

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)
  • The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
  • Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
  • The Tower (1928)
  • The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Poems
  • "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"
  • "Lake Isle of Innisfree"
  • "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 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)
  • The Countess Cathleen (1911)
  • At the Hawk's Well (1916)
  • The Resurrection (1927)
  • Purgatory (1938)
Other works
  • A Vision (1925)
  • The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows
People
  • John Butler Yeats (father)
  • Susan Pollexfen (mother)
  • Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
  • Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
  • Lily Yeats (sister)
  • Maud Gonne (lover)
  • Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
  • Anne Yeats (daughter)
  • Michael Yeats (son)
Related
  • W. B. Yeats bibliography
  • An Appointment with Mr Yeats
  • "Troy"
  • Thoor Ballylee
  • Samhain magazine


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