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 ...
Do not because this day I have grown saturnine Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my thought Because I have ...
I care not what the sailors say: All those dreadful thunder-stones, All that storm that blots the day Can but ...
I found that ivory image there Dancing with her chosen youth, But when he wound her coal-black hair As though ...
O thought, fly to her when the end of day Awakens an old memory, and say, 'Your strength, that is ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest. Anashuya, the young priestess, ...
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on ...
I have old women's secrets now That had those of the young; Madge tells me what I dared not think ...
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, ...
I There all the golden codgers lay, There the silver dew, And the great water sighed for love, And the ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania, in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech. We who are ...
I I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And ...
Edain came out of Midhir's hill, and lay Beside young Aengus in his tower of glass, Where time is drowned ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
(version of The Hero, The Girl And The Fool) When all works that have From cradle run to grave From ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
He stood among a crowd at Dromahair; His heart hung all upon a silken dress, And he had known at ...
That lover of a night Came when he would, Went in the dawning light Whether I would or no; Men ...
I have pointed out the yelling pack, The hare leap to the wood, And when I pass a compliment Rejoice ...
I dreamed as in my bed I lay, All night's fathomless wisdom come, That I had shorn my locks away ...
This night has been so strange that it seemed As if the hair stood up on my head. From going-down ...
Dry timber under that rich foliage, At wine-dark midnight in the sacred wood, Too old for a man's love I ...
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand, And they had nailed the boards ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
I On the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye Has called up the cold spirits that are born When ...
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end ...
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those Who sought thee in the ...
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