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 ...
`O cruel Death, give three things back,' Sang a bone upon the shore; `A child found all a child can ...
He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push ...
All the heavy days are over; Leave the body's coloured pride Underneath the grass and clover, With the feet laid ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
I On the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye Has called up the cold spirits that are born When ...
King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen He had outridden his war-wasted ...
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge; He and his friend, their faces to the South, Had trod ...
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging ...
A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked1 of his country and its people, ...
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 ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
I thought no more was needed Youth to polong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who ...
'Lay me in a cushioned chair; Carry me, ye four, With cushions here and cushions there, To see the world ...
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her ...
I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn ...
Picture and book remain, An acre of green grass For air and exercise, Now strength of body goes; Midnight, an ...
Now, man of croziers, shadows called our names And then away, away, like whirling flames; And now fled by, mist-covered, ...
What sort of man is coming To lie between your feet? What matter, we are but women. Wash; make your ...
I Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath. Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day ...
I. Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night With open ...
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