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 ...
The moments passed as at a play; I had the wisdom love brings forth; I had my share of mother-wit, ...
'Though to my feathers in the wet, I have stood here from break of day. I have not found a ...
There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard ...
I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. 'Those breasts are flat and fallen now, ...
'She will change,' I cried. 'Into a withered crone.' The heart in my side, That so still had lain, In ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
O bid me mount and sail up there Amid the cloudy wrack, For peg and Meg and Paris' love That ...
Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride, Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom; The cataract ...
I swayed upon the gaudy stem The butt-end of a steering-oar, And saw wherever I could turn A crowd upon ...
O curlew, cry no more in the air, Or only to the water in the West; Because your crying brings ...
And thus declared that Arab lady: 'Last night, where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had laid me, ...
Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the ...
A man came slowly from the setting sun, To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun, And said, 'I am that ...
While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes, My heart would brim with dreams about the times When we bent ...
Bid a strong ghost stand at the head That my Michael may sleep sound, Nor cry, nor turn in the ...
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Inver Amergin The hearts ...
King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen He had outridden his war-wasted ...
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all ...
I There all the golden codgers lay, There the silver dew, And the great water sighed for love, And the ...
One that is ever kind said yesterday: 'Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her ...
The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes, And then the clash of ...
Bring me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call ...
I I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And ...
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge; He and his friend, their faces to the South, Had trod ...
Five-and-twenty years have gone Since old William pollexfen Laid his strong bones down in death By his wife Elizabeth In ...
The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under ...
'Time to put off the world and go somewhere And find my health again in the sea air,' Beggar to ...
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