Drama

The Land of Heart’s Desire

by W. B. Yeats

A short verse play in which a young bride in Sligo is lured away by a fairy child on May Eve. Staged in London in 1894, it was the first of Yeats’s plays to be performed. The fairy child sings “The wind blows out of the gates of the day”.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 20 minutes

Where to find it

On the Drama shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #5168. In the public domain in the United States.