The Countess Cathleen PLUS The Hour-Glass A Morality

The Countess Cathleen is a short drama that takes place in Ireland during a famine. An Irish peasant family was talking about strange creatures that had appeared, portents that evil supernatural forces were abroad in the land. The Countess Cathleen and her companions arrived, searching for the way to her castle. The peasants bitterly complained to her of their state, and she gave them what she had left in her purse after previous charity to other starving folk. She invited the family to her castle the next day to receive more.
The Hour-Glass A Morality is also a play by William B. Yeats.