William Butler Yeats
- Poetry
Remorse For Intemperate Speech by William Butler Yeats
I ranted to the knave and fool,But outgrew that school,Would transform the part,Fit audience found, but cannot ruleMy fanatic heart.I…
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Red Hanrahans Song About Ireland by William Butler Yeats
The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand,Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left…
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Reconciliation by William Butler Yeats
Some may have blamed you that you took awayThe verses that could move them on the dayWhen, the ears being…
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Quarrel In Old Age by William Butler Yeats
Where had her sweetness gone?What fanatics inventIn this blind bitter town,Fantasy or incidentNot worth thinking of,put her in a rage.I…
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Presences by William Butler Yeats
This night has been so strange that it seemedAs if the hair stood up on my head.From going-down of the…
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Politics by William Butler Yeats
How can I, that girl standing there,My attention fixOn Roman or on RussianOr on Spanish politics?Yet here’s a travelled man…
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Peace by William Butler Yeats
Ah, that Time could touch a formThat could show what Homers ageBred to be a heros wage.Were not all her…
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Paudeen by William Butler Yeats
Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spiteOf our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blindAmong the stones and…
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Mongan Thinks Of His Past Greatness by William Butler Yeats
I have drunk ale from the Country of the YoungAnd weep because I know all things now:I have been a…
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Mongan Laments The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns!I have been changed to a hound with one red…
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