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 man young and old -- The three momuments -- From "Oedipus at Colonus" -- The gift of Harun al-Rashid -- All Souls' Night -- Notes