A Man Young And Old (William Butler Yeats Poems)
IFirst LoveTHOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty's murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I ...
IFirst LoveTHOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty's murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I ...
When you and my true lover meet And he plays tunes between your feet. Speak no evil of the soul, ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
Sickness brought me this Thought, in that scale of his: Why should I be dismayed Though flame had burned the ...
I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk, For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or ...
I Remember all those renowned generations, They left their bodies to fatten the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten ...
I A bloody and a sudden end, Gunshot or a noose, For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves ...
Here at right of the entrance this bronze head, Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye, Everything else withered and mummy-dead. ...
We sat under an old thorn-tree And talked away the night, Told all that had been said or done Since ...
The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on ...
Cumhal called out, bending his head, Till Dathi came and stood, With a blink in his eyes, at the cave-mouth, ...
I turn round Like a dumb beast in a show. Neither know what I am Nor where I go, My ...
He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push ...
Man. In a cleft that's christened Alt Under broken stone I halt At the bottom of a pit That broad ...
Because we love bare hills and stunted trees And were the last to choose the settled ground, Its boredom of ...
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge; He and his friend, their faces to the South, Had trod ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
Under my window-ledge the waters race, Otters below and moor-hens on the top, Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven's ...
On Cruachan's plain slept he That must sing in a rhyme What most could shake his soul: 'The stallion Eternity ...
Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks, And you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, ...
Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year. I wished before it ceased. Goatherd. Nor bird nor beast ...
Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no ...
While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes, My heart would brim with dreams about the times When we bent ...
My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, ...
I Under the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that ...
I. Ancestral Houses Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ...
What sort of man is coming To lie between your feet? What matter, we are but women. Wash; make your ...
Epilogue to "A Vision' MIDNIGHT has come, and the great Christ Church Bell And may a lesser bell sound through ...
I Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath. Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day ...
What lively lad most pleasured me Of all that with me lay? I answer that I gave my soul And ...
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