Musing on the nature of love and aging, ¿The Wild Swans at Coole¿ finds Yeats asking what will happen when, after so many years of admiring the singular beauty of swans, he awakes ¿some day / To find they have flown away?¿ The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of elegies, lyrics, poetic dialogues, and political poems by W.B. Yeats.