Best Famous Ebb Away Poems
Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Ebb Away poems. This is a select list of the best famous Ebb Away poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Ebb Away poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of ebb away poems.
Search and read the best famous Ebb Away poems, articles about Ebb Away poems, poetry blogs, or anything else Ebb Away poem related using the PoetrySoup search engine at the top of the page.
See Also:
Written by
William Butler Yeats |
Three Voices [together]. Hurry to bless the hands that play,
The mouths that speak, the notes and strings,
O masters of the glittering town!
O! lay the shrilly trumpet down,
Though drunken with the flags that sway
Over the ramparts and the towers,
And with the waving of your wings.
First Voice. Maybe they linger by the way.
One gathers up his purple gown;
One leans and mutters by the wall -
He dreads the weight of mortal hours.
Second Voice. O no, O no! they hurry down
Like plovers that have heard the call.
Third Voice. O kinsmen of the Three in One,
O kinsmen, bless the hands that play.
The notes they waken shall live on
When all this heavy history's done;
Our hands, our hands must ebb away.
Three Voices [together]. The proud and careless notes live on,
But bless our hands that ebb away.
|