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,
Solomon and the Witch by W. B. Yeats AND thus declared that Arab lady ‘Last night, where under the wild On grassy mattress I had laid me, Within my arms great Solomon, I suddenly cried out in a strange
Three Things by W. B. Yeats ‘O cruel Death, give three things Sang a bone upon the shore; ‘A child found all a child can lac Whether of pleasure or of rest, Upon the abundance of my breast’:
The Player Queen by W. B. Yeats (Song from an Unfinished Play) My mother dandled me and sang, ‘How young it is, how young!’ And made a golden cradle That on a willow swung.
To an Isle in the Water by W. B. Yeats SHY one, shy one, Shy one of my heart, She moves in the firelight Pensively apart. She carries in the dishes, 1
A Man Young and Old: VII. the Friends of His Youth by W. B. Yeats Laughter not time destroyed my voi And put that crack in it, And when the moon’s pot-bellied I get a laughing fit, For that old Madge comes down the
To Ireland in the Coming Times by W. B. Yeats KNOW, that I would accounted be True brother of a company That sang, to sweeten Ireland’s w Ballad and story, rann and song; Nor be I any less of them,
The Circus Animals’ Desertion by W. B. Yeats I sought a theme and sought for it I sought it daily for six weeks or Maybe at last, being but a broken I must be satisfied with my heart, Winter and summer till old age beg
Tom O’Roughley by W. B. Yeats ‘THOUGH logic-choppers rule the And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy,’ Or so did Tom O’Roughley say
Girl’s Song by W. B. Yeats I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who. Another came in sight
