The O’Rahilly (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Sing of the O'Rahilly, Do not deny his right; Sing a 'the' before his name; Allow that he, despite All ...
Sing of the O'Rahilly, Do not deny his right; Sing a 'the' before his name; Allow that he, despite All ...
What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind. I ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the ...
The island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop tranquillity; The peahens dance on a smooth lawn, A parrot ...
Under my window-ledge the waters race, Otters below and moor-hens on the top, Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven's ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
I, the poet William Yeats, With old mill boards and sea-green slates, And smithy work from the Gort forge, Restored ...
I meditate upon a swallow's flight, Upon a aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night ...
And thus declared that Arab lady: 'Last night, where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had laid me, ...
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain Because the ...
I thought of your beauty, and this arrow, Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow. There's no ...
If this importunate heart trouble your peace With words lighter than air, Or hopes that in mere hoping flicker and ...
I thought no more was needed Youth to polong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who ...
Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a ...
He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push ...
Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and their pride; They have spoken against you ...
'Would it were anything but merely voice!' The No King cried who after that was King, Because he had not ...
'Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless ...
They hold their public meetings where Our most renowned patriots stand, One among the birds of the air, A stumpier ...
Man. In a cleft that's christened Alt Under broken stone I halt At the bottom of a pit That broad ...
Say that the men of the old black tower, Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds, Their money spent, ...
He stood among a crowd at Dromahair; His heart hung all upon a silken dress, And he had known at ...
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 ...
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the ...
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown ...
I Now that we're almost settled in our house I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a ...
I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees, My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my ...
(version of The Hero, The Girl And The Fool) When all works that have From cradle run to grave From ...
I did the dragon's will until you came Because I had fancied love a casual Improvisation, or a settled game ...
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