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Baile and Aillinn

W. B. Yeats

First published 1950
Type Poem

A narrative poem in thirteen stanzas, headed by the following "Argument": "Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to be happy in his own land among the dead, told to each a story of the other's death, so that their hearts were broken and they died." First published in the Monthly Review, July 1902.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1950 The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Macmillan Collection 457