Young Man’s Song by W. B. Yeats ‘She will change,’ I cried. ‘Into a withered crone.’ The heart in my side, That so still had lain, In noble rage replied
Her Vision in the Wood by W. B. Yeats Dry timber under that rich foliage At wine-dark midnight in the sacre Too old for a man’s love I stood Imagining men. Imagining that I A greater with a lesser pang assua
The Attack on 'the Playboy of the Western World,' 1907 by W. B. Yeats Once, when midnight smote the air, Eunuchs ran through Hell and met From thoroughfare to thoroughfare, While that great Juan galloped by And like these to rail and sweat
Aedh Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers by W. B. Yeats I dreamed that I stood in a valle For happy lovers passed two by two And I dreamed my lost love came s With her cloud-pale eyelids fallin I cried in my dream ‘O women bid
The Song of the Happy Shepherd by W. B. Yeats THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy Yet still she turns her restless h
The Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick by W. B. Yeats I, proclaiming that there is Among birds or beasts or men One that is perfect or at peace. Danced on Cruachan’s windy plain, Upon Cro-patrick sang aloud;
To Songs of a Fool by W. B. Yeats A SPECKLED cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence
The Lover’s Song by W. B. Yeats BIRD sighs for the air, Thought for I know not where, For the womb the seed sighs. Now sinks the same rest On mind, on nest,
Remorse for Intemperate Speech by W. B. Yeats I RANTED to the knave and fool, But outgrew that school, Would transform the part, Fit audience found, but cannot rul My fanatic heart. 1
A Man Young and Old: IX. the Secrets of the Old by W. B. Yeats I have old women’s secrets now That had those of the young; Madge tells me what I dared not t When my blood was strong, And what had drowned a lover once