He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and their pride; They have spoken against you ...
Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and their pride; They have spoken against you ...
'Would it were anything but merely voice!' The No King cried who after that was King, Because he had not ...
'Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless ...
They hold their public meetings where Our most renowned patriots stand, One among the birds of the air, A stumpier ...
Man. In a cleft that's christened Alt Under broken stone I halt At the bottom of a pit That broad ...
Say that the men of the old black tower, Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds, Their money spent, ...
He stood among a crowd at Dromahair; His heart hung all upon a silken dress, And he had known at ...
A storm-beaten old watch-tower, A blind hermit rings the hour. All-destroying sword-blade still Carried by the wandering fool. Gold-sewn silk ...
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the ...
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown ...
I Now that we're almost settled in our house I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a ...
I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees, My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my ...
(version of The Hero, The Girl And The Fool) When all works that have From cradle run to grave From ...
I did the dragon's will until you came Because I had fancied love a casual Improvisation, or a settled game ...
I The Colonel went out sailing, He spoke with Turk and Jew, With Christian and with Infidel, For all tongues ...
When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide; When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
I lived among great houses, Riches drove out rank, Base drove out the better blood, And mind and body shrank. ...
I have pointed out the yelling pack, The hare leap to the wood, And when I pass a compliment Rejoice ...
Sang Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her dusky face, 'All day long from mid-day We have talked in the one ...
A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love: The folk who are buying and selling, The ...
The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the ...
Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head; My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd: 'This Land of ...
'She will change,' I cried. 'Into a withered crone.' The heart in my side, That so still had lain, In ...
For one throb of the artery, While on that old grey stone I Sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I ...
I My Paistin Finn is my sole desire, And I am shrunken to skin and bone, For all my heart ...
Sickness brought me this Thought, in that scale of his: Why should I be dismayed Though flame had burned the ...
I would be ignorant as the dawn That has looked down On that old queen measuring a town With the ...
A cursing rogue with a merry face, A bundle of rags upon a crutch, Stumbled upon that windy place Called ...
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveller; ...
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