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A Celebration
A Celebration
A middle-northern March, now as always--
gusts from the South broken against cold winds--
but from under, as if a slow hand lifted a tide, …
A Sort of a Song
A Sort of a Song
Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
s…
Youth And Age
Youth And Age
MUCH did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.
Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!
"Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"
You sullen pig of a man
you force me into the mud
with your stinking ash-cart!
Brother!
--if we were rich
…
Wisdom
Wisdom
THE true faith discovered was
When painted panel, statuary.
Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
Amended what was told awry
…
Words For Music Perhaps
Words For Music Perhaps
I - CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP
BRING me to the blasted oak
That I, midnight upon the stroke,
(All find saf…
Who Goes With Fergus?
Who Goes With Fergus?
WHO will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's woven shade,
And dance upon the level shore?
Young ma…
When You Are Old
When You Are Old
WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the sof…
Veronica's Napkin
Veronica's Napkin
THE Heavenly Circuit; Berenice's Hair;
Tent-pole of Eden; the tent's drapery;
Symbolical glory of thc earth and air!
Th…
What Was Lost
What Was Lost
I SING what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men; <…
Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation
Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation
HOW should the world be luckier if this house,
Where passion and precision have been one
Time out of mi…
Under The Round Tower
Under The Round Tower
'ALTHOUGH I'd lie lapped up in linen
A deal I'd sweat and little earn
If I should live as live the neighbours,'
Cri…
Two Years Later
Two Years Later
HAS no one said those daring
Kind eyes should be more learn'd?
Or warned you how despairing
The moths are when they are b…
Under Saturn
Under Saturn
DO not because this day I have grown saturnine
Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my thought
Because I have no other youth, ca…
Towards Break Of Day
Towards Break Of Day
WAS it the double of my dream
The woman that by me lay
Dreamed, or did we halve a dream
Under the first cold gleam o…
Two Songs of a Fool
Two Songs of a Fool
I
A speckled cat and a tame hare
Eat at my hearthstone
And seep there;
And both look up to me alone <…
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
Cuchulain battling …
Tom O'Roughley
Tom O'Roughley
'THOUGH logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a…
To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire
To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire
WHILE I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times
When we be…
To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
BE you still, be you still, trembling heart;
Remember the wisdom out of the old days:
Him who trembles befo…
To An Isle In The Water
To An Isle In The Water
SHY one, Shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in the firelight
pensively apart.
She carries in the dis…
To be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee
To be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee
I, THE poet William Yeats,
With old mill boards and sea-green slates,
And smithy work from the Gort for…
To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin
To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin
Municipal Gallery If It Were
You gave, but will not give again
Until enough of …
To A Young Beauty
To A Young Beauty
DEAR fellow-artist, why so free
With every sort of company,
With every Jack and Jill?
Choose your companions from the b…