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 ...
There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
Because I am mad about women I am mad about the hills,' Said that wild old wicked man Who travels ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
'What do you make so fair and bright?' 'I make the cloak of Sorrow: O lovely to see in all ...
Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the ...
And thus declared that Arab lady: 'Last night, where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had laid me, ...
I wander by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge: Until the axle break That ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees, My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my ...
Here at right of the entrance this bronze head, Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye, Everything else withered and mummy-dead. ...
Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West, You would come hither, and ...
A cursing rogue with a merry face, A bundle of rags upon a crutch, Stumbled upon that windy place Called ...
We sat under an old thorn-tree And talked away the night, Told all that had been said or done Since ...
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge; He and his friend, their faces to the South, Had trod ...
I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner ...
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, ...
I cried when the moon was mutmuring to the birds: 'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will, I ...
Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks, And you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, ...
He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
Sang old Tom the lunatic That sleeps under the canopy: 'What change has put my thoughts astray And eyes that ...
The moments passed as at a play; I had the wisdom love brings forth; I had my share of mother-wit, ...
He. Dear, I must be gone While night Shuts the eyes Of the household spies; That song announces dawn. She. ...
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark ...
Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake ...
I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn ...
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