A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety par W. B. Yeats COME swish around, my pretty pun And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill. Sobriety is a jewel
He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven par W. B. Yeats I HAVE drunk ale from the Count And weep because I know all thing I have been a hazel-tree, and they The Pilot Star and the Crooked P Among my leaves in times out of mi
The Death of Cuchulain par W. B. Yeats The harlot sang to the beggar-man. I meet them face to face, Conall, Cuchulain, Usna’s boys, All that most ancient race; Maeve had three in an hour, they s
All Things Can Tempt Me par W. B. Yeats ALL things can tempt me from this One time it was a woman’s face, or The seeming needs of my fool-drive Now nothing but comes readier to t Than this accustomed toil. When I 1
On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature par W. B. Yeats Where, where but here have pride a That long to give themselves for w To shake their wicked sides at you Restraining reckless middle-age?
Paudeen par W. B. Yeats INDIGNANT at the fumbling wits Of our old paudeen in his shop, I Among the stones and thorn-trees, Until a curlew cried and in the lu A curlew answered; and suddenly th
A Friend’s Illness par W. B. Yeats Thought, in that scale of his: Why should I be dismayed Though flame had burned the whole World, as it were a coal, Now I have seen it weighed
Slim Adolescence That a Nymph Has Stripped, par 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 Coming of Wisdom With Time par W. B. Yeats Though leaves are many, the root i Through all the lying days of my y I swayed my leaves and flowers in Now I may wither into the truth. 3
No Second Troy par W. B. Yeats WHY should I blame her that she With misery, or that she would of Have taught to ignorant men most v Or hurled the little streets upon Had they but courage equal to desi