Literature
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Crazy Jane Reproved by William Butler Yeats
I care not what the sailors say:All those dreadful thunder-stones,All that storm that blots the dayCan but show that Heaven…
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Crazy Jane On The Mountain by William Butler Yeats
I am tired of cursing the Bishop,(Said Crazy Jane)Nine books or nine hatsWould not make him a man.I have found…
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Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment by William Butler Yeats
‘Love is allUnsatisfiedThat cannot take the wholeBody and soul’;And that is what Jane said. ‘Take the sourIf you take meI…
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Crazy Jane On God by William Butler Yeats
That lover of a nightCame when he would,Went in the dawning lightWhether I would or no;Men come, men go;All things…
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Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers by William Butler Yeats
I found that ivory image thereDancing with her chosen youth,But when he wound her coal-black hairAs though to strangle her,…
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Crazy Jane And The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
Bring me to the blasted oakThat I, midnight upon the stroke,(All find safety in the tomb.)May call down curses on…
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Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman by William Butler Yeats
I know, although when looks meetI tremble to the bone,The more I leave the door unlatchedThe sooner love is gone,For…
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Consolation by William Butler Yeats
O but there is wisdomIn what the sages said;But stretch that body for a whileAnd lay down that headTill I…
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Coole Park and Ballylee by William Butler Yeats
I meditate upon a swallow’s flight,Upon a aged woman and her house,A sycamore and lime-tree lost in nightAlthough that western…
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Coole Park by William Butler Yeats
I meditate upon a swallow’s flight,Upon a aged woman and her house,A sycamore and lime-tree lost in nightAlthough that western…
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