A Faery Song (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania, in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech. We who are ...
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 ...
I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner ...
Hidden by old age awhile In masker's cloak and hood, Each hating what the other loved, Face to face we ...
Bid a strong ghost stand at the head That my Michael may sleep sound, Nor cry, nor turn in the ...
The moments passed as at a play; I had the wisdom love brings forth; I had my share of mother-wit, ...
The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on ...
Sang Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her dusky face, 'All day long from mid-day We have talked in the one ...
I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. 'Those breasts are flat and fallen now, ...
Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I ...
'Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself ...
Undying love to buy I wrote upon The corners of this eye All wrongs done. What payment were enough For ...
I Many ingenious lovely things are gone That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, protected from the circle of the ...
Now, man of croziers, shadows called our names And then away, away, like whirling flames; And now fled by, mist-covered, ...
I. Ancestral Houses Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ...
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