Fragments (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. II Where got ...
I Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. II Where got ...
I cried when the moon was mutmuring to the birds: 'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will, I ...
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 ...
Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake ...
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead, Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade, ...
That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost, Quiet the dog, tether the pony To a distant post; Our ...
I Under the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that ...
I. Ancestral Houses Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ...
The gyres! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth; Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty ...
I That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those ...
The girl goes dancing there On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth Grass plot of the garden; Escaped from bitter youth, Escaped ...
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