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
Man And The Echo (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Man. In a cleft that’s christened Alt Under broken stone I halt At the bottom of a pit That broad noon has never lit, And shout a secret to the stone. All that I have said and done, Now that … Continue reading
The Black Tower (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Say that the men of the old black tower, Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds, Their money spent, their wine gone sour, Lack nothing that a soldier needs, That all are oath-bound men: Those banners come not in. … Continue reading
The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland (William Butler Yeats Poems)
He stood among a crowd at Dromahair; His heart hung all upon a silken dress, And he had known at last some tenderness, Before earth took him to her stony care; But when a man poured fish into a pile, … Continue reading
Symbols (William Butler Yeats Poems)
A storm-beaten old watch-tower, A blind hermit rings the hour. All-destroying sword-blade still Carried by the wandering fool. Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade, Beauty and fool together laid. (William Butler Yeats)
The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart (William Butler Yeats Poems)
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould, Are wronging your image that … Continue reading
He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty (William Butler Yeats Poems)
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman’s gaze And by the unlabouring brood of the skies: And therefore my heart will bow, when dew … Continue reading
In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Now that we’re almost settled in our house I’ll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a fire of turf in th’ ancient tower, And having talked to some late hour Climb up the narrow winding stair … Continue reading
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