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 ...
These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye: The weak lay hand on ...
'Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless ...
I My Paistin Finn is my sole desire, And I am shrunken to skin and bone, For all my heart ...
King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen He had outridden his war-wasted ...
I Her Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
I Now that we're almost settled in our house I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a ...
(From Oedipus at Colonus) Chorus. Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies, The nightingale ...
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on ...
As I came over Windy Gap They threw a halfpenny into my cap. For I am running to paradise; And ...
You ask what - I have found, and far and wide I go: Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous ...
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge; He and his friend, their faces to the South, Had trod ...
I A bloody and a sudden end, Gunshot or a noose, For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves ...
Because there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible ...
Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end, Old Dublin merchant "free of the ...
Bolt and bar the shutter, For the foul winds blow: Our minds are at their best this night, And I ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. 'Those breasts are flat and fallen now, ...
O what has made that sudden noise? What on the threshold stands? It never crossed the sea because John Bull ...
Has no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learn'd? Or warned you how despairing The moths are ...
May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man A ...
I lived among great houses, Riches drove out rank, Base drove out the better blood, And mind and body shrank. ...
A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked1 of his country and its people, ...
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman ...
Dear fellow-artist, why so free With every sort of company, With every Jack and Jill? Choose your companions from the ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. 'Those breasts are flat and fallen now, ...
His chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, ...
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