The Wild Swans at Coole. 1919.
#Irish #NobelPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Come round me, little childer; There, don’t fling stones at me Because I mutter as I go; But pity Moll Magee. My man was a poor fisher
#1889 #TheWanderingsOfOisinAndOtherPoems
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 fee…
#1899 #TheWindAmongTheReeds
My love, we will go, we will go, I and… And away in the woods we will scatter th… And the salmon behold, and the ousel too… My love, we will hear, I and you, we wi… The calling afar of the doe and the deer…
REMEMBER all those renowned generati… They left their bodies to fatten the wol… They left their homesteads to fatten the… Fled to far countries, or sheltered them… In cavern, crevice, or hole,
We who are old, old and gay, O so old! Thousands of years, thousands of years, If all were told: Give to these children, new from the wor…
I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And lay the heart upon her hand And bear that beating heart away;
#1928 #TheTower
Though you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most:
The dews drop slowly and dreams gather;… Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened… And then the clash of fallen horsemen an… Of unknown perishing armies beat about m… We who still labour by the cromlech on t…
NOW as at all times I can see in the m… In their stiff, painted clothes, the pal… Appear and disappear in the blue depth o… With all their ancient faces like rain-b… And all their helms of silver hovering s…
I FASTED for some forty days on bread… For passing round the bottle with girls… In country shawl or Paris cloak, had pu… And what’s the good of women, for all th… Is fol de rol de rolly O.
The lot of love is chosen. I learnt th… Struggling for an image on the track Of the whirling Zodiac. Scarce did he my body touch, Scarce sank he from the west
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 fee…
I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who. Another came in sight
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman
#1933 #TheWindingStairAndOtherPoems
These are the clouds about the fallen su… The majesty that shuts his burning eye: The weak lay hand on what the strong has… Till that be tumbled that was lifted hig… And discord follow upon unison,
#1910 #TheGreenHelmetAndOtherPoems