William Butler Yeats Poems (357 Poems)
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Meditations In Time Of Civil War (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I. Ancestral Houses Surely among a rich man’s flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As … Continue reading
The Gyres (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The gyres! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth; Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out. Irrational streams of blood are staining earth; Empedocles … Continue reading
Sailing To Byzantium (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees – Those dying generations – at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever … Continue reading
Sweet Dancer (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The girl goes dancing there On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth Grass plot of the garden; Escaped from bitter youth, Escaped out of her crowd, Or out of her black cloud. Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer! If strange men come from … Continue reading
A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill. Sobriety is a jewel That I do much adore; And therefore keep me dancing Though drunkards lie … Continue reading
Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors (William Butler Yeats Poems)
What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass. (William Butler Yeats)
The Lady’s Second Song (William Butler Yeats Poems)
What sort of man is coming To lie between your feet? What matter, we are but women. Wash; make your body sweet; I have cupboards of dried fragrance. I can strew the sheet. The Lord have mercy upon us. He … Continue reading
Ephemera (William Butler Yeats Poems)
‘Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sotrow under pendulous lids, Because our love is waning.’ And then She: ‘Although our love is waning, let us stand By the lone border of the lake once … Continue reading
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And … Continue reading
A Prayer For Old Age (William Butler Yeats Poems)
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone; From all that makes a wise old man That can be praised of all; O what am I … Continue reading
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