Her Triumph (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I did the dragon's will until you came Because I had fancied love a casual Improvisation, or a settled game ...
I did the dragon's will until you came Because I had fancied love a casual Improvisation, or a settled game ...
I The Colonel went out sailing, He spoke with Turk and Jew, With Christian and with Infidel, For all tongues ...
When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide; When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the ...
An incident from the `Historia mei Temporis' of the Abbe Michel de Bourdeille Said lady once to lover, 'None can ...
I lived among great houses, Riches drove out rank, Base drove out the better blood, And mind and body shrank. ...
I have pointed out the yelling pack, The hare leap to the wood, And when I pass a compliment Rejoice ...
Sang Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her dusky face, 'All day long from mid-day We have talked in the one ...
A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love: The folk who are buying and selling, The ...
The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the ...
Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head; My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd: 'This Land of ...
'She will change,' I cried. 'Into a withered crone.' The heart in my side, That so still had lain, In ...
For one throb of the artery, While on that old grey stone I Sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I ...
I My Paistin Finn is my sole desire, And I am shrunken to skin and bone, For all my heart ...
Sickness brought me this Thought, in that scale of his: Why should I be dismayed Though flame had burned the ...
I would be ignorant as the dawn That has looked down On that old queen measuring a town With the ...
A cursing rogue with a merry face, A bundle of rags upon a crutch, Stumbled upon that windy place Called ...
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveller; ...
Being out of heart with government I took a broken root to fling Where the proud, wayward squirrel went, Taking ...
Sang old Tom the lunatic That sleeps under the canopy: 'What change has put my thoughts astray And eyes that ...
A crazy man that found a cup, When all but dead of thirst, Hardly dared to wet his mouth Imagining, ...
I asked if I should pray. But the Brahmin said, 'pray for nothing, say Every night in bed, 'I have ...
Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride, Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom; The cataract ...
While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes, My heart would brim with dreams about the times When we bent ...
I Blessed be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, ...
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame ...
Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no ...
O what to me the little room That was brimmed up with prayer and rest; He bade me out into ...
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey ...
I Her Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red ...
A man came slowly from the setting sun, To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun, And said, 'I am that ...
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