Best W. B. Yeats Poems
Below are the all-time best W. B. Yeats poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of w. b. yeats poems written by PoetrySoup members
Fragile Is Life"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, death, nature, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Laureate
"Laureate"
Laureate
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind
guide my hand
I write I write I write
receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether
sublime
not normal...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form:
Romanticism
Repost of Erin Go BraghErin Go Bragh
At Ben Bulben’s feet Sligo stands,
The home of such creative hands
Where poet William Yeats did grow.
The Nobel Prize his poems did know.
On...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, beach, beautiful, people, places,
Form:
Couplet
Feasting On the Fruit of My Heart's DesireI dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Call Your MotherCall Your Mother
Pick up the phone...
do it now.
If you can.
Later if you must,
I trust that you,
know the difference.
She never put you...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry PilgrimageTo begin, time and money we give
For our quest, our poetry pilgrimage
Here, our band of bards congregate
Here, we speak the language of language
The secret handshake...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, community, journey, poets, together,
Form:
Free verse
Tread Softly*Inspired by the famous line of William Butler Yeats
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams*
Tread slowly...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
w. b. yeats, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True LoveDeep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
( “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)
Deep...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
Form:
Elegy
Windswept Through the Eyes of Poets"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger...
it all fades, except love....
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, poets, wind,
Form:
Free verse
POETSBlake was chosen keeper,
For careful hands had he
Yeats the classic sweeper
And Keats at number three
Whitman wore the five shirt
With...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Erin Go Bragh 1At Ben Bulben’s feet Sligo stands
The home of such creative hands
Where poet William Yeats did grow.
The Nobel Prize his poems did know.
On my trip to...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, history, life, people, places,
Form:
Couplet
Arms Full of Linnet Wings
“Arms Full of Linnet Wings”
In the garden
that afternoon
she planted seeds
in their ripe minds
their eyes looking
up to hers their
irises dazzling
in the late...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Paths We ChooseThe Paths We Choose
by Edmund Siejka
When I was a young writer
I read all the greats
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yeats, James Joyce
And...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, life,
Form:
Narrative
The ContestThe Contest
I would like to enter,
and sometimes I do.
Occasionally I even win,
to my surprise.
How cool!
The true rule,
to every fool,
or pirate...
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Categories:
w. b. yeats, america, friendship, hero, homework,
Form:
Narrative