Slim Adolescence That a Nymph Has Stripped, by W. B. Yeats Slim adolescence that a nymph has Peleus on Thetis stares. Her limbs are delicate as an eyeli Love has blinded him with tears; But Thetis’ belly listens.
The Young Man's Song by W. B. Yeats I whispered, “I am too young,” And then, “I am old enough”; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. “Go and love, go and love, young m 2
A Crazed Girl by W. B. Yeats That crazed girl improvising her m Her poetry, dancing upon the shore Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not wh Hiding amid the cargo of a steamsh 1
Parnell’s Funeral by W. B. Yeats Under the Great Comedian’s tomb t A bundle of tempestuous cloud is b About the sky; where that is clear Brightness remains; a brighter sta What shudders run through all that
The Living Beauty by W. B. Yeats I’LL say and maybe dream I have Seeing that time has frozen up the The wick of youth being burned and From beauty that is cast out of a In bronze, or that in dazzling mar
Blood and the Moon by W. B. Yeats BLESSED be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, mastering it,
A Man Young and Old: VIII. Summer and Spring by W. B. Yeats We sat under an old thorn-tree And talked away the night, Told all that had been said or don Since first we saw the light, And when we talked of growing up
Consolation by W. B. Yeats O but there is wisdom In what the sages said; But stretch that body for a while And lay down that head Till I have told the sages
Symbols by W. B. Yeats A STORM BEATEN old watch-tow A blind hermit rings the hour. All-destroying sword-blade still Carried by the wandering fool. Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
Her Dream by W. B. Yeats I dreamed as in my bed I lay, All night’s fathomless wisdom come That I had shorn my locks away And laid them on Love’s lettered But something bore them out of sig