Imitated From The Japanese (William Butler Yeats Poems)
A most astonishing thing -- Seventy years have I lived; (Hurrah for the flowers of Spring, For Spring is here ...
A most astonishing thing -- Seventy years have I lived; (Hurrah for the flowers of Spring, For Spring is here ...
Come gather round me, Parnellites, And praise our chosen man; Stand upright on your legs awhile, Stand upright while you ...
'Lay me in a cushioned chair; Carry me, ye four, With cushions here and cushions there, To see the world ...
I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. 'Those breasts are flat and fallen now, ...
While I, that reed-throated whisperer Who comes at need, although not now as once A clear articulation in the air, ...
(After reading `The Forged Casement Diaries' by Dr. Maloney) I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do. ...
Edain came out of Midhir's hill, and lay Beside young Aengus in his tower of glass, Where time is drowned ...
Hidden by old age awhile In masker's cloak and hood, Each hating what the other loved, Face to face we ...
I turn round Like a dumb beast in a show. Neither know what I am Nor where I go, My ...
Do not because this day I have grown saturnine Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my thought Because I have ...
I The Roaring Tinker if you like, But Mannion is my name, And I beat up the common sort And ...
There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard ...
The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content ...
I swayed upon the gaudy stem The butt-end of a steering-oar, And saw wherever I could turn A crowd upon ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
I There all the golden codgers lay, There the silver dew, And the great water sighed for love, And the ...
Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West, You would come hither, and ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
I Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. II Where got ...
I cried when the moon was mutmuring to the birds: 'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will, I ...
Sing of the O'Rahilly, Do not deny his right; Sing a 'the' before his name; Allow that he, despite All ...
What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind. I ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the ...
The island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop tranquillity; The peahens dance on a smooth lawn, A parrot ...
Under my window-ledge the waters race, Otters below and moor-hens on the top, Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven's ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
I, the poet William Yeats, With old mill boards and sea-green slates, And smithy work from the Gort forge, Restored ...
I meditate upon a swallow's flight, Upon a aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night ...
And thus declared that Arab lady: 'Last night, where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had laid me, ...
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