A Deep-Sworn Vow (William Butler Yeats Poems)
OTHERS because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the ...
OTHERS because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
Sang Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her dusky face, 'All day long from mid-day We have talked in the one ...
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain Because the ...
King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen He had outridden his war-wasted ...
A man came slowly from the setting sun, To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun, And said, 'I am that ...
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on ...
A cursing rogue with a merry face, A bundle of rags upon a crutch, Stumbled upon that windy place Called ...
Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death ...
Although I shelter from the rain Under a broken tree, My chair was nearest to the fire In every company ...
'Lay me in a cushioned chair; Carry me, ye four, With cushions here and cushions there, To see the world ...
A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest. Anashuya, the young priestess, ...
O'Driscoll drove with a song The wild duck and the drake From the tall and the tufted reeds Of the ...
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all ...
When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide; When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
All the heavy days are over; Leave the body's coloured pride Underneath the grass and clover, With the feet laid ...
Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare? His numbers, though they moved or seemed to move In marble or ...
'What have I earned for all that work,' I said, 'For all that I have done at my own charge? ...
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand, And they had nailed the boards ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse - ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked1 of his country and its people, ...
Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face, And even old men's eyes grew dim, this hand alone, ...
I Her Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red ...
Hidden by old age awhile In masker's cloak and hood, Each hating what the other loved, Face to face we ...
That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost, Quiet the dog, tether the pony To a distant post; Our ...
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