Vacilliation by W. B. Yeats BETWEEN extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath. Comes to destroy All those antinomies
The Fiddler of Dooney by W. B. Yeats WHEN I play on my fiddle in Doo Folk dance like a wave of the sea; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet, My brother in Mocharabuiee. I passed my brother and cousin:
Introductory Lines (The Shadowy Waters) by W. B. Yeats I walked among the seven woods of Shan-walla, where a willow-hordere Gathers the wild duck from the win Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-n Where many hundred squirrels are a
The Cat and the Moon by W. B. Yeats THE cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top And the nearest kin of the moon, The creeping cat, looked up. Black Minnaloushe stared at the m 1
The Lady’s Third Song by W. B. Yeats WHEN you and my true lover meet And he plays tunes between your fe Speak no evil of the soul, Nor think that body is the whole, For I that am his daylight lady
A Man Young and Old: I. First Love by W. B. Yeats Though nurtured like the sailing m In beauty’s murderous brood, She walked awhile and blushed awhi And on my pathway stood Until I thought her body bore
A Faery Song by W. B. Yeats We who are old, old and gay, O so old! Thousands of years, thousands of y If all were told: Give to these children, new from t
The Blessed by W. B. Yeats CUMHAL called out, bending his Till Dathi came and stood, With a blink in his eyes, at the c Between the wind and the wood. And Cumhal said, bending his knee 1
The Great Day by W. B. Yeats HURRAH for revolution and more A beggar upon horseback lashes a b Hurrah for revolution and cannon c The beggars have changed places, b
The Chambermaid’s Second Song by W. B. Yeats From pleasure of the bed, Dull as a worm, His rod and its butting head Limp as a worm, His spirit that has fled