Best Yeats Poems

Oceans wend and eyes lift to the faded summer moon,
like a dried water spot on the morning sky 
Here now on the edge of a princely river
Cast a cold Eye

Over hills that shadow Drumcliff and the run of the wild boar
Stone walls smuggle narrow lanes...

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His words calm me when I'm restless
bringing beauty to my world.
I get shivers, I must confess 
when his passionate verse is unfurled.

I once threw a penny of brown
to see if love, I might find.
Like a princess with jewelled crown,
my dreams of starry nights shined.

Soft words...

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Yeats and I share the same sentiment: 
Ageing is absurd.
But Yeats could not cope with it;
He called it a caricature.
But I not only know but also feel—  
Old is gold!
I won’t be a Yeats!

Yeats thought of life as a tragedy
And continued to bemoan it.
But...

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Know the Beauty of tomorrow began in the past--
And it must last through today,
Suffering the indignities at hand.
And then you can see out of Spiritus Mundi
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
looking out with gaze blank and pitiless--

The Nightmare that slouches...

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Things Fall Apart,
The centre Cannot Hold
There! the Sun gathers mold-
left to its doom, dew-gray, dagger a-heart.

O Yeats! if you were here to behold
Nations a-throat, men a-hate
O Yeats! if you beheld our earth-
setting in the East, back to Dust.

The rains sob down acids-
Burning brimestones in ghastly...

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SON OF SLIGO
     To William Butler Yeats - Feb 5 2017
You'll feel the voice of Sligo's heart
in pubs as music plays,
while spirits of the viking's quest
comes on, and here it stays;

their mournful song of blood and death
'tis not what it's about,
but...

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First were the clowns
Shadowy angst of the Deplored, 
Lurking at the periphery of our vision;
Then in the darkness, the stars wheel and weep;
As the hard words of hatred fly,
Let the Jews flee to Jerusalem.
Send the seed of Montezuma beyond the walls.
Cries from the shadows,
All hail...

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For if I had a pence for every pound,
I would ponder first for it to be sound,
For it bears on my soul, I contemplate,
Do they that is endowed suffer this fate,
The teaching I present whose life is poor,
For I fear naught my dream be it...

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No chance to even grace your palm with a button 
From a shirt of calico below a monicled face 
Not even close can come a single hair to  
Gently fall upon your shouldered and penful life 

One uttered whisper from those lips that speaks...

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W B Yeats 'SECOND COMING'

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When You Are Old Poetry Contest
Sara Kendrick


Yeats' poem describes his courtship that sank
With his misconnection he is bitter
And he takes digs at his beau's true glitter 
Alluding that his fire drew her blank

He paints a now-and-then picture of her
Saying he'd be the one holding her...

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After Yeats and Heaney,
you wonder when the new one
will come galloping 

out of Dublin or perhaps 
from yet another farm
but you won’t know

until you read the lines
and hear the music by someone 
you have never heard of.

If no one else is around
you’ll shout to the...

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William Butler Yeats
respected as one of the greats Awarded
Awarded a Nobel prize
being tone deaf  is a surprise...

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W B Yeats ' WINDING STAIRCASE              
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I won a poetry prize to go visit the lake isle of Innisfree.
But I didn't wanna go, cuz there's nothing there I particularly wanted to see.
I hear there's just a clay-and-wattles cabin
with a bunch a bees a-blabbin'
and nine rows of beans, and that doesn't really...

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