A Nativity di W. B. Yeats WHAT woman hugs her infant there Another star has shot an ear. What made the drapery glisten so? Not a man but Delacroix. What made the ceiling waterproof?
The Poet Pleads With the Elemental Powers di W. B. Yeats THE Powers whose name and shape Have pulled the Immortal Rose; And though the Seven Lights bowed The Polar Dragon slept, His heavy rings uncoiled from glim
The Three Hermits di W. B. Yeats THREE old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third,
A Deep di W. B. Yeats OTHERS because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been frie Yet always when I look death in t When I clamber to the heights of Or when I grow excited with wine,
The Wanderings of Oisin: Book II di W. B. Yeats Now, man of croziers, shadows call And then away, away, like whirling And now fled by, mist-covered, wit The youth and lady and the deer an ‘Gaze no more on the phantoms,’ N
The Phases of the Moon di W. B. Yeats He and his friend, their faces to Had trod the uneven road. Their b Their Connemara cloth worn out of They had kept a steady pace as tho Despite a dwindling and late risen
From a Full Moon in March di W. B. Yeats PARNELL’S FUNERAL UNDER the Great Comedian’s tomb A bundle of tempestuous cloud is b About the sky; where that is clear Brightness remains; a brighter sta
The Winding Stair and Other Poems di W. B. Yeats THE light of evening, Lissadell, Great windows open to the south, Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle. But a raving autumn shears
Hound Voice di W. B. Yeats BECAUSE we love bare hills and And were the last to choose the se Its boredom of the desk or of the So many years companioned by a hou Our voices carry; and though slumb
Easter 1916 di W. B. Yeats I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the he