When Helen Lived
Read 'When Helen Lived' by 'William Butler Yeats' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
We have cried in our despair
That men desert,
For some trivial affair
Or noisy, insolent sport,
Beauty that we have won
From bitterest hours;
Yet we, had we walked within
Those topless towers
Where Helen waked with her boy,
Had given but as the rest
Of the men and women of Troy,
A word and a jest.
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