He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty (William Butler Yeats Poems)
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown ...
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
You ask what - I have found, and far and wide I go: Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous ...
I think it better that in times like these A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth We have no ...
Here is fresh matter, poet, Matter for old age meet; Might of the Church and the State, Their mobs put ...
Three old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse - ...
I, the poet William Yeats, With old mill boards and sea-green slates, And smithy work from the Gort forge, Restored ...
I meditate upon a swallow's flight, Upon a aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night ...
I Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set ...
I Around me the images of thirty years: An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side; Casement upon trial, half hidden by ...
There is grey in your hair. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath When you are passing; But maybe ...
(For Harry Clifton) I HAVE heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow. Of poets ...
His chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, ...
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