Yeats' work shifts from the heavily ornamental, fantasy-driven early poems to the fascination with Irish myth and legend, which matured into the concerns of the Celtic Revival and the embrace of distinctly Irish culture. As an older but still unmarried man, he became more interested in contemporary social issues, though he never lost sight of the history which informed them. Late in life, his marriage revived his interest in mystical matters, accompanied by a burst in creative imagination, best exemplified by the gyres of A Vision and "The Second Coming."

Mosada: a Dramatic Poem – Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1886
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems – London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics – London: Unwin, 1892
The Celtic Twilight – London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. – Rev. and enl. ed. 1902
The Land of Heart's Desire – London: Unwin, 1894
Poems – London: Unwin, 1895
The Secret Rose – London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897
The Wind among the Reeds – London: Elkin Mathews, 1899
The Shadowy Waters – London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1900
Cathleen ni Houlihan – London: Bullen, 1902
Where There Is Nothing – New York: John Lane, 1902
Ideas of Good and Evil – London: Bullen, 1903
In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age – Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1903
The Hour Glass: a Morality – London: Heinemann, 1903
The Hour Glass and Other Plays – London: Macmillan, 1904
The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand – London: Bullen, 1904
Stories of Red Hanrahan – Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1905
Poems, 1899-1905 – Dublin: Maunsel, 1906
The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats – London: Macmillan, 1906-1907. – Rev. ed. 1912
Deirdre – Dublin: Maunsel, 1907
Discoveries: a Volume of Essays – Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1907
The Golden Helmet – New York: John Quinn, 1908
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats – Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. – 8 vol.
The Green Helmet and Other Poems – Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1910. – Enl. ed. 1912
Synge and the Ireland of His Time – Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1911
The Cutting of an Agate – New York: Macmillan, 1912
Poems Written in Discouragement – Dumdrum: Cuala Press, 1913
Responsibilities : Poem and a Play – Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1914
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth – Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1915
The Wild Swans at Coole: Other Verses and a Play in Verse – Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1917
Per Amica Silentia Lunae – London: Macmillan, 1918
Michael Robartes and the Dancer – Dundrum: Cuala Press, [1921]. – Expanded ed. 1994
Four Plays for Dancers – London: Macmillan, 1921
Four Years. – Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1921
The Trembling of the Veil – London: Laurie, 1922
Later Poems – London: Macmillan, 1922
The Player Queen – London: Macmillan, 1922
Plays and Controversies – London: Macmillan, 1923
Essays. – London: Macmillan, 1924
The Cat and the Moon – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1924
The Bounty of Sweden: a Meditation, and a Lecture, Delivered Before The Royal Swedish Academy, and Certain Notes – Cuala Press, 1925
Early Poems and Stories – London: Macmillan, 1925
A Vision – London: Laurie, 1925. – Rev. ed. 1937
Estrangement – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1926
Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth – London: Macmillan, 1926
October Blast – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1927
The Tower – London: Macmillan, 1928
The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1928
A Packet for Ezra Pound – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1929
The Winding Stair – New York: Fountain Press, 1929. – Enl. ed. 1933
Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1931
Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1932
The Collected Poems – New York: Macmillan, 1933
Letters to the New Island / edited with an introduction by Horace Reynolds – Harvard Univ. Press, 1934
The Words upon the Window Pane – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934
Wheels and Butterflies – London: Macmillan, 1934
The Collected Plays – London: Macmillan, 1934
The King of the Great Clock Tower – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934
A Full Moon in March – London: Macmillan, 1935
Dramatis Personæ – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935
Poems – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935
Nine One-Act Plays – London: Macmillan, 1937
Essays 1931 to 1936 – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1937
The Herne's Egg and Other Plays – New York: Macmillan, 1938
New Poems – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1938
Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley – Oxford Univ. press, 1940
Last Poems and Plays – London: Macmillan, 1940
If I Were Four-and-Twenty – Dublin:Cuala Press, 1940
The Poems of W. B. Yeats – London: Macmillan, 1949. – 2 vol.
The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats – London: Macmillan, 1952
Senate Speeches / edited by Donald R. Pearce – Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960
Explorations – London: Macmillan, 1962
The Speckled Bird/edited by William O'Donnell – Dublin: Cuala Press, 1974
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats/edited by John Kelly; associate editor Eric Domville – Oxford, 1986–. – 4 vol.
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats/Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors – London & New York: Macmillan, 1989–. – 4 vol.
Mythologies/edited by Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey – Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005