Table of Contents: Sailing to Byzantium --The tower --Meditations in time of civil war --Nineteen hundred and nineteen --The wheel --Youth and age --The new faces --A prayer for my son --Two songs from a play --Wisdom --Leda and the swan --On a picture of a black centaur --Among school children --Colonus' praise --The hero, the girl, and the fool --Owen Ahern and his dancers --A ... read moreman young and old --The three monuments --From "Oedipus at Colonus" --The gift of Harun al-Rashid --All Souls' Night --Notesread less