by William Butler Yeats
I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale… Read the rest
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A Bronze Head
by William Butler Yeats
Here at right of the entrance this bronze head, Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye, Everything else withered and mummy-dead. What great tomb-haunter sweeps the distant sky (Something may linger there though all else die;) And… Read the rest
A Coat
by William Butler Yeats
I Made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the worlds eyes As though theyd wrought it. Song, let them… Read the rest
A Cradle Song
by William Butler Yeats
The Danann children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart… Read the rest
A Crazed Girl
by William Butler Yeats
That crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl… Read the rest
Adams Curse
by William Butler Yeats
We sat together at one summer's end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry. I said, "A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not… Read the rest
A Deep-sworn Vow
by William Butler Yeats
Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited… Read the rest
A Dialogue Of Self And Soul
by William Butler Yeats
(My Soul) I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, crumbling battlement, Upon the breathless starlit air, "Upon the star that marks the hidden pole; Fix… Read the rest