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 ...
I Now that we're almost settled in our house I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a ...
I The Colonel went out sailing, He spoke with Turk and Jew, With Christian and with Infidel, For all tongues ...
A man came slowly from the setting sun, To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun, And said, 'I am that ...
O'Driscoll drove with a song The wild duck and the drake From the tall and the tufted reeds Of the ...
Do not because this day I have grown saturnine Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my thought Because I have ...
If any man drew near When I was young, I thought, 'He holds her dear,' And shook with hate and ...
I found that ivory image there Dancing with her chosen youth, But when he wound her coal-black hair As though ...
O thought, fly to her when the end of day Awakens an old memory, and say, 'Your strength, that is ...
Good Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a Shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest. Anashuya, the young priestess, ...
I am worn out with dreams; A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon ...
Has no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learn'd? Or warned you how despairing The moths are ...
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, ...
I think it better that in times like these A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth We have no ...
I have old women's secrets now That had those of the young; Madge tells me what I dared not think ...
Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks, And you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
I The Roaring Tinker if you like, But Mannion is my name, And I beat up the common sort And ...
I thought no more was needed Youth to polong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; ...
Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year. I wished before it ceased. Goatherd. Nor bird nor beast ...
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse - ...
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a ...
Dry timber under that rich foliage, At wine-dark midnight in the sacred wood, Too old for a man's love I ...
There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard ...
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