More from William Butler Yeats

  1. I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod…
  2. This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout. He had done most bitter wrong To some who are near my heart, Yet I number him i…
  3. 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…
  4. Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter, seem Enchanted to a stone To trouble the living stream.
  5. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is lo…
  6. Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all.
  7. Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.
  8. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

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