Youth And Age

eiwritten by William Butler Yeats

MUCH did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.



William Butler Yeats

Other poems by William Butler Yeats

A First Confession

eiwritten by William Butler Yeats, published on Thu 04.19.2007 at 07:18

I admit the briar
Entangled in my hair
Did not injure me;
My blenching and trembling,
Nothing but dissembling,

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Blood And The Moon

eiwritten by William Butler Yeats, published on Sat 04.14.2007 at 00:21

BLESSED be this place,
More blessed still this tower;
A bloody, arrogant power
Rose out of the race
Uttering, mastering it,

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Mohini Chatterjee

eiwritten by William Butler Yeats, published on Tue 03.13.2007 at 16:10

I ASKED if I should pray.
But the Brahmin said,
'pray for nothing, say
Every night in bed,
'I have been a king,

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A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid

eiwritten by William Butler Yeats, published on Fri 03.09.2007 at 02:59

A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down

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Anashuya And Vijaya

eiwritten by William Butler Yeats, published on Tue 03.06.2007 at 17:11

A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden;
around that the forest.Anashuya, the young priestess, kneelinq

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He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven

eiwritten by William Butler Yeats, published on Fri 03.02.2007 at 14:54

I HAVE drunk ale from the Country of the Young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung

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