Literature
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Mohini Chatterjee by William Butler Yeats
I asked if I should pray.But the Brahmin said,“pray for nothing, sayEvery night in bed,“”I have been a king,I have…
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Michael Robartes Remembers Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats
When my arms wrap you round I pressMy heart upon the lovelinessThat has long faded from the world;The jewelled crowns…
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Michael Robartes Bids His Beloved Be At Peace by William Butler Yeats
I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake,Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their eyes glimmering white;The North unfolds above…
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Michael Robartes Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods by William Butler Yeats
If this importunate heart trouble your peaceWith words lighter than air,Or hopes that in mere hoping flicker and cease;Crumple the…
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Meru by William Butler Yeats
Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a mle, under the semblance of peaceBy manifold illusion; but man’s life is thought,And he,…
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Me Peacock by William Butler Yeats
What’s riches to himThat has made a great peacockWith the pride of his eye?The wind-beaten, stone-grey,And desolate Three RockWould nourish…
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Men Improve With The Years by William Butler Yeats
I am worn out with dreams;A weather-worn, marble tritonAmong the streams;And all day long I lookUpon this ladys beautyAs though…
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Memory by William Butler Yeats
One had a lovely face,And two or three had charm,But charm and face were in vainBecause the mountain grassCannot but…
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Meditations In Time Of Civil War by William Butler Yeats
Ii(Ancestral Houses)Surely among a rich man s flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains…
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Maid Quiet by William Butler Yeats
Where has Maid Quiet gone to,Nodding her russet hood?The winds that awakened the starsAre blowing through my blood.O how could…
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