"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and the assembled collection was dedicated to her son, Major Robert Gregory.
Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the Little Review, and became the title poem in the Yeats\'s 1917 and 1919 collections The Wild Swans at Coole. "The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)