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 ...
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 ...
Lullaby (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Beloved, may your sleep be sound That have found it where you fed. What were all the world's alarms To ...
The Mother Of God (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The ...
Fergus And The Druid (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks, And you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, ...
The Leaders Of The Crowd (William Butler Yeats Poems)
They must to keep their certainty accuse All that are different of a base intent; Pull down established honour; hawk ...
The Old Age Of Queen Maeve (William Butler Yeats Poems)
A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked1 of his country and its people, ...
These Are The Clouds (William Butler Yeats Poems)
These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye: The weak lay hand on ...
An Image From A Past Life (William Butler Yeats Poems)
He. Never until this night have I been stirred. The elaborate starlight throws a reflection On the dark stream, Till ...
Colonus’ Praise (William Butler Yeats Poems)
(From Oedipus at Colonus) Chorus. Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies, The nightingale ...
John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I A bloody and a sudden end, Gunshot or a noose, For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves ...
In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Five-and-twenty years have gone Since old William pollexfen Laid his strong bones down in death By his wife Elizabeth In ...
A Deep Sworn Vow (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death ...
The Rose Of Battle (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of ...
The Nineteenth Century And After (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Though the great song return no more There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the ...
Old Tom Again (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Things out of perfection sail, And all their swelling canvas wear, Nor shall the self-begotten fail Though fantastic men suppose ...
The Results Of Thought (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman ...
The Shadowy Waters: Introductory Lines (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I walked among the seven woods of Coole: Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pond Gathers the wild duck from the winter ...
The Chambermaid’s First Song (William Butler Yeats Poems)
How came this ranger Now sunk in rest, Stranger with strangcr. On my cold breast? What's left to Sigh for? ...
Running To Paradise (William Butler Yeats Poems)
As I came over Windy Gap They threw a halfpenny into my cap. For I am running to paradise; And ...
A Prayer On Going Into My House (William Butler Yeats Poems)
God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled, No table or ...
Mad As The Mist And Snow (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Bolt and bar the shutter, For the foul winds blow: Our minds are at their best this night, And I ...
All Things Can Tempt Me (William Butler Yeats Poems)
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse - ...
Sixteen Dead Men (William Butler Yeats Poems)
O but we talked at large before The sixteen men were shot, But who can talk of give and take, ...
The Wheel (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when abounding hedges ring Declare that ...
The Old Stone Cross (William Butler Yeats Poems)
A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes ...
A Nativity (William Butler Yeats Poems)
What woman hugs her infant there? Another star has shot an ear. What made the drapery glisten so? Not a ...
Two Songs From A Play (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And ...
Beggar To Beggar Cried (William Butler Yeats Poems)
'Time to put off the world and go somewhere And find my health again in the sea air,' Beggar to ...