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A Song by William Butler Yeats
I thought no more was needed
Youth to polong
Than dumb-bell and foil
To keep the body young.
O w..
A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring by William Butler Yeats
We sat under an old thorn-tree
And talked away the night,
Told all that had been said or done
Sin..
A Bronze Head by William Butler Yeats
Here at right of the entrance this bronze head,
Human, superhuman, a bird’s round eye,
Everything..
A Nativity by William Butler Yeats
What woman hugs her infant there?
Another star has shot an ear.
What made the drapery glisten so..
At Galway Races by William Butler Yeats
There where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping horses..
A Woman Homer Sung by William Butler Yeats
If any man drew near
When I was young,
I thought, ’He holds her dear,’
And shook with hate and fe..
A Friend's Illness by William Butler Yeats
Sickness brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had..
An Image From A Past Life by William Butler Yeats
He. Never until this night have I been stirred.
The elaborate starlight throws a reflection
On the..
A Stick Of Incense by William Butler Yeats
Whence did all that fury come?
From empty tomb or Virgin womb?
Saint Joseph thought the world woul..
A First Confession by William Butler Yeats
I admit the briar
Entangled in my hair
Did not injure me;
My blenching and trembling,
Nothing bu..
A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness by William Butler Yeats
O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For peg and Meg and Paris’ love
That had..
A Meditation In Time Of War by William Butler Yeats
For one throb of the artery,
While on that old grey stone I Sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I..
A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; an..
A Memory Of Youth by William Butler Yeats
The moments passed as at a play;
I had the wisdom love brings forth;
I had my share of mother-wit,..
A Dream Of Death by William Butler Yeats
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand,
And they had nailed the bo..
A Man Young And Old: I. First Love by William Butler Yeats
Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty’s murderous brood,
She walked awhile and blushed a..
A Faery Song by William Butler Yeats
Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania,
in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.
We..
Anashuya And Vijaya by William Butler Yeats
A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden;
around that the forest. Anashuya, the..
A Coat by William Butler Yeats
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But..
A Prayer On Going Into My House by William Butler Yeats
God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage
And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled,
No table..
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