New Hampshire

Song List

Our scene opens upon a golden bird upon a golden bough singing to His Lordship’s Lords and Ladies of what is past or passing or to come.

1. Coole Park, 1929   (4:43)

2. The Second Coming  (3:12)

3. The Wheel  (2:20)

    

“The swordsmen and the ladies can still keep company”

4. For Anne Gregory  (1:57)

5. Remorse for Intemperate Speech  2:19

6. The Crazed Moon  3:12

    

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

7. The New Faces (2:11)

8. The Leaders of  the Crowd   (2:53)

9. The Fool by the Roadside  (2:10)

    

"It's certain that fine women eat / A crazy salad with their meat / Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone."

10. In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz  (3:28)

11. Blood and the Moon  (1:17)

12. Oil and Blood  (1:27)

     

“ . . . I have a marvelous thing to say, / A certain marvelous thing.”

13. Stream and Sun at Glendalough  (3:19)

14. The Rose Tree  (2:17)

15. Veronica’s Napkin  (2:30)

     

“I sing what was lost and dread what was won.”

16. Two Songs from a Play  (2:09)

17. Sixteen Dead Men  (2:49)

18. Symbols  (1:55)

     

"What shall I do with this absurdity --  . . . this caricature. / Decrepit age that has been tied to me / As to a dog's tail”

19. Sailing to Byzantium  (5:50)

20. Easter, 1916  (4:47)

21. Leda and the Swan  (2:42)

     

“But O that I were young again / And held her in my arms.”

22. Towards Break of Day  (3:40)

23. On a Political Prisoner  (3:29)

24. Death  (2:34)

     

“For an old bellows full of angry wind . . .”

25. Quarrel in Old Age  (2:13)

26. A Meditation in Time of War  (1:02)

27. Byzantium  (5:37)