#Irish #NobelPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1933 #TheWindingStairAndOtherPoems
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more… Have you not heard that our hearts are o…
#1899 #TheWindAmongTheReeds
If this importunate heart trouble your p… With words lighter than air, Or hopes that in mere hoping flicker and… Crumple the rose in your hair; And cover your lips with odorous twiligh…
A little Indian temple in the Golden A… that the forest. Anashuya, the young pri… temple. Anashuya. Send peace on all the lands a… O, may tranquillity walk by his elbow
#1889 #TheWanderingsOfOisinAndOtherPoems
I walked among the seven woods of Coole… Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pond Gathers the wild duck from the winter da… Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-na-no, Where many hundred squirrels are as happ…
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here’s a travelled man that knows
He. Dear, I must be gone While night Shuts the eyes Of the household spies; That song announces dawn. She. No, night’s bird and love’s
A sudden blow: the great wings beating s… Above the staggering girl, her thighs ca… By the dark webs, her nape caught in his… He holds her helpless breast upon his br… How can those terrified vague fingers pu…
#1928 #Sonnet #TheTower
A SPECKLED cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence
THEY must to keep their certainty accu… All that are different of a base intent; Pull down established honour; hawk for n… Whatever their loose fantasy invent And murmur it with bated breath, as thou…
I THOUGHT no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. Oh, who could have foretold
#1919 #TheWildSwansAtCoole
Once, when midnight smote the air, Eunuchs ran through Hell and met On every crowded street to stare Upon great Juan riding by: Even like these to rail and sweat
#1910 #TheGreenHelmetAndOtherPoems
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney. Folk dance like a wave of the sea; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet, My brother in Mocharabuiee. I passed my brother and cousin:
O curlew, cry no more in the air, Or only to the water in the West; Because your crying brings to my mind passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair That was shaken out over my breast:
COME play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I’d a gun To strike you dead?
WHY should not old men be mad? Some have known a likely lad That had a sound fly-fisher’s wrist Turn to a drunken journalist; A girl that knew all Dante once