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 ...
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown ...
Because we love bare hills and stunted trees And were the last to choose the settled ground, Its boredom of ...
I Her Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red ...
We should be hidden from their eyes, Being but holy shows And bodies broken like a thorn Whereon the bleak ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman ...
A man came slowly from the setting sun, To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun, And said, 'I am that ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
If any man drew near When I was young, I thought, 'He holds her dear,' And shook with hate and ...
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a ...
Bid a strong ghost stand at the head That my Michael may sleep sound, Nor cry, nor turn in the ...
I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk, For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or ...
King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen He had outridden his war-wasted ...
Although I shelter from the rain Under a broken tree, My chair was nearest to the fire In every company ...
Was it the double of my dream The woman that by me lay Dreamed, or did we halve a dream ...
A doll in the doll-maker's house Looks at the cradle and bawls: 'That is an insult to us.' But the ...
What woman hugs her infant there? Another star has shot an ear. What made the drapery glisten so? Not a ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
I thought of your beauty, and this arrow, Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow. There's no ...
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse - ...
Here at right of the entrance this bronze head, Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye, Everything else withered and mummy-dead. ...
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those Who sought thee in the ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard ...
I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I ...
Because I am mad about women I am mad about the hills,' Said that wild old wicked man Who travels ...
Cumhal called out, bending his head, Till Dathi came and stood, With a blink in his eyes, at the cave-mouth, ...
A man I praise that once in Tara's Hals Said to the woman on his knees, 'Lie still. My hundredth ...
I A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that ...
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