The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats ...: Lyrical poemsMacmillan, 1906 |
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Aengus Aillinn ANASHUYA ancient beautiful beech leaves old beloved birds blossom boughs have withered breast Cloth cried croziers Cruachan Cuchulain Cumhal curlew Danaan dance dead deep demons door dreams drop Druid Edain eyes face faery feet fell Fenians FERGUS fire flame foam gaze gleam glimmering grass gray hair hands hazel head hear heard heart horn horse hound hour Irish Theatre king kiss Knocknarea land laughing leaves a-flutter round light lips little fox lonely LOVER Maeve merry moon mournful murmured Naoise never Niamh night Ogham OISIN pale PATRIC peace pearl-pale POEMS Red Branch red fox rode Rose sang sea's SEVEN WOODS shadows shore sigh singing sleep song Sorrow souls stars Stephen Phillips stept stone stood sweet tears things tide townland trees twilight VIJAYA wandering wandering fire wave weary weep wind wings wood young
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Page 180 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings ; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore ; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Page 232 - I passed my brother and cousin: They read in their books of prayer; I read in my book of songs I bought at the Sligo fair. When we come at the end of time To Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance: And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With 'Here is the fiddler of Dooney!
Page 48 - When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart. The herring are not in the tides as they were of old ; My sorrow ! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold, When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart.
Page 170 - THE ROSE OF THE WORLD Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.
Page 218 - The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart, With the earth and the sky and the water, re-made, like a casket of gold For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
Page 40 - Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim grey sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child!
Page 272 - HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Page 229 - And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire aflame, But something rustled on the floor, And...
Page 293 - The wind has bundled up the clouds high over Knocknarea, And thrown the thunder on the stones for all that Maeve can say. Angers that are like noisy clouds have set our hearts abeat ; But we have all bent low and low and kissed the quiet feet Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.
Page 200 - Once, while he nodded on a chair, At the moth-hour of eve, Another poor man sent for him, And he began to grieve. 'I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace, For people die and die'; And after cried he, 'God forgive! My body spake, not I!