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 ...
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William Butler Yeats Poems (357 Poems)
A Lover’s Quarrel Among the Fairies (William Butler Yeats Poems)
<i>A moonlight moor. Fairies leading a child.</i>Male Fairies: Do not fear us, earthly maid!We will lead you hand in handBy ...
A Deep-Sworn Vow (William Butler Yeats Poems)
OTHERS because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the ...
The Folly Of Being Comforted (William Butler Yeats Poems)
One that is ever kind said yesterday: 'Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her ...
The Apparitions (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Because there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible ...
The New Faces (William Butler Yeats Poems)
If you, that have grown old, were the first dead, Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime Should hear my living ...
The Fiddler Of Dooney (William Butler Yeats Poems)
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney. Folk dance like a wave of the sea; My cousin is priest ...
A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness (William Butler Yeats Poems)
O bid me mount and sail up there Amid the cloudy wrack, For peg and Meg and Paris' love That ...
To A Young Girl (William Butler Yeats Poems)
My dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother ...
When Helen Lived (William Butler Yeats Poems)
We have cried in our despair That men desert, For some trivial affair Or noisy, insolent sport, Beauty that we ...
The Ragged Wood (William Butler Yeats Poems)
O hurry where by water among the trees The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh, When they have but looked ...
Responsibilities – Introduction (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end, Old Dublin merchant "free of the ...
He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake, Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their eyes glimmering white; The North ...
To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: Him who trembles before ...
That The Night Come (William Butler Yeats Poems)
She lived in storm and strife, Her soul had such desire For what proud death may bring That it could ...
Two Years Later (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Has no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learn'd? Or warned you how despairing The moths are ...
The Wanderings of Oisin: Book III (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Have pulled the Immortal Rose; And though the Seven Lights ...
The Unappeasable Host (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For ...
The Rose Of Peace (William Butler Yeats Poems)
If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He ...
The Great Day (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon ...
The Cold Heaven (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, ...
A Dream Of Death (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand, And they had nailed the boards ...
On Woman (William Butler Yeats Poems)
May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man A ...
Her Praise (William Butler Yeats Poems)
She is foremost of those that I would hear praised. I have gone about the house, gone up and down ...
A Stick Of Incense (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Whence did all that fury come? From empty tomb or Virgin womb? Saint Joseph thought the world would melt But ...
Towards Break Of Day (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Was it the double of my dream The woman that by me lay Dreamed, or did we halve a dream ...
Men Improve With The Years (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I am worn out with dreams; A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon ...
To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Come play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I'd a gun To strike you ...
He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I ...