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 thought, fly to her when the end of day Awakens an old memory, and say, 'Your strength, that is ...
Good Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a Shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe ...
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, ...
I am worn out with dreams; A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon ...
Has no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learn'd? Or warned you how despairing The moths are ...
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, ...
I think it better that in times like these A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth We have no ...
I have old women's secrets now That had those of the young; Madge tells me what I dared not think ...
Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks, And you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, ...
ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
I The Roaring Tinker if you like, But Mannion is my name, And I beat up the common sort And ...
I thought no more was needed Youth to polong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who ...
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 ...
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; ...
Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year. I wished before it ceased. Goatherd. Nor bird nor beast ...
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse - ...
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a ...
Dry timber under that rich foliage, At wine-dark midnight in the sacred wood, Too old for a man's love I ...
There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard ...
The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on ...
Because I am mad about women I am mad about the hills,' Said that wild old wicked man Who travels ...
Out-Worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the ...
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey ...
I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I ...
She is foremost of those that I would hear praised. I have gone about the house, gone up and down ...
Cumhal called out, bending his head, Till Dathi came and stood, With a blink in his eyes, at the cave-mouth, ...
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