The Balloon Of The Mind (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its ...
Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its ...
He. Dear, I must be gone While night Shuts the eyes Of the household spies; That song announces dawn. She. ...
There's many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two, If he could see the townland That we are ...
'Although I'd lie lapped up in linen A deal I'd sweat and little earn If I should live as live ...
Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face, And even old men's eyes grew dim, this hand alone, ...
Behold that great Plotinus swim, Buffeted by such seas; Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him, But the Golden Race looks dim, Salt ...
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all ...
O thought, fly to her when the end of day Awakens an old memory, and say, 'Your strength, that is ...
Though nurtured like the sailing moon In beauty's murderous brood, She walked awhile and blushed awhile And on my pathway ...
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging ...
'What do you make so fair and bright?' 'I make the cloak of Sorrow: O lovely to see in all ...
I admit the briar Entangled in my hair Did not injure me; My blenching and trembling, Nothing but dissembling, Nothing ...
I Remember all those renowned generations, They left their bodies to fatten the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten ...
Some may have blamed you that you took away The verses that could move them on the day When, the ...
When have I last looked on The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies Of the dark leopards of ...
The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on ...
`O cruel Death, give three things back,' Sang a bone upon the shore; `A child found all a child can ...
Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; ...
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your ...
Three Voices . Hurry to bless the hands that play, The mouths that speak, the notes and strings, O masters ...
I A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to ...
King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen He had outridden his war-wasted ...
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her ...
My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, ...
'Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself ...
I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what ...
Like the moon her kindness is, If kindness I may call What has no comprehension in't, But is the same ...
Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, ...
Although I can see him still. The freckled man who goes To a grey place on a hill In grey ...
There is grey in your hair. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath When you are passing; But maybe ...
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