Poems by William Butler Yeats

Having inherited a vigorous mindFrom my old fathers I must nourish dreamsAnd leave a woman and a ...

Two heavy tressels, and a boardWhere Sato’s gift, a changeless sword,By pen and paper lies,That i...

The bees build in the crevicesOf loosening masonry, and thereThe mother birds bring grubs and fli...

An affable Irregular,A heavily-built Falstaffan man,Comes cracking jokes of civil warAs though to...

Much did I rage when young,Being by the World oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds t...

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; th...

O what to me the little room
That was brimmed up with prayer and rest;
He bade me out into ...

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles m...

A sudden blow: the great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy the ...

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim...

Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping h...

Once more the storm is howling, and half hidUnder this cradle-hood and coverlidMy child sleeps on...

I know that I shall meet my fateSomewhere among the clouds above;Those that I fight I do not hate...

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,And over the mice in the barley sheaves;Yellow the le...

IWhat shall I do with this absurdity—O heart, O troubled heart—thi...