Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways;
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days."

"Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea" tells the story of that episode briefly and powerfully; "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and "Who Goes with Fergus" are a couple of his most famous poems. "Fergus" and "To Ireland in the Coming Times" are two poems whose driving rhythm is memorable--I think that's what first attracted me to Yeats, that insistent rhythm which meshes so neatly with the sense of the words.