More from William Butler Yeats

  1. Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes.
  2. They say such different things at school.
  3. We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are b…
  4. Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.
  5. Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
  6. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is lo…
  7. I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
  8. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough b…

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