William Butler Yeats Poems (357 Poems)
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A Man Young And Old (William Butler Yeats Poems)
IFirst Love THOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty’s murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I thought her body boreA heart of flesh and blood.But since I laid a hand thereonAnd found a heart of … Continue reading
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 the willows in the glade,By the gorse on the high land, By the pasture where the lambsShall awake with … Continue reading
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 face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face. (William Butler … Continue reading
The Pity Of Love (William Butler Yeats Poems)
A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love: The folk who are buying and selling, The clouds on their journey above, The cold wet winds ever blowing, And the shadowy hazel grove Where mouse-grey waters are … Continue reading
The Cat And The Moon (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the moon, The creeping cat, looked up. Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon, For, wander and wail as he would, The … Continue reading
Beautiful Lofty Things (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Beautiful lofty things: O’Leary’s noble head; My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd: ‘This Land of Saints,’ and then as the applause died out, ‘Of plaster Saints’; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back. Standish O’Grady supporting … Continue reading
Young Man’s Song (William Butler Yeats Poems)
‘She will change,’ I cried. ‘Into a withered crone.’ The heart in my side, That so still had lain, In noble rage replied And beat upon the bone: ‘Uplift those eyes and throw Those glances unafraid: She would as bravely … Continue reading
A Meditation In Time Of War (William Butler Yeats Poems)
For one throb of the artery, While on that old grey stone I Sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy. (William Butler Yeats)
Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune’s Sake (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I My Paistin Finn is my sole desire, And I am shrunken to skin and bone, For all my heart has had for its hire Is what I can whistle alone and alone. Oro, oro! Tomorrow night I will break … Continue reading
A Friend’s Illness (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Sickness brought me this Thought, in that scale of his: Why should I be dismayed Though flame had burned the whole World, as it were a coal, Now I have seen it weighed Against a soul? (William Butler Yeats)
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