Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats read by Adrian Dunbar Here's a lovely reading of "Lake Isle of Innisfree" By William Butler Yeats read by the brilliant Northern Irish actor and director Adrian Dunbar taken from the TV drama series "Blood". "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is a twelve-line poem comprising three quatrains, written by William Butler Yeats in 1888 and first published in the National Observer in 1890. It was reprinted in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics