William Butler Yeats

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    The women take so little stock
    In what I do or say
    They’d sooner leave their cosseting
    To hear a jackass bray....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    For she had fiery blood
    When I was young,
    And trod so sweetly proud
    As ‘twere upon a cloud,
    A woman Homer sung....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Where has Maid Quiet gone to,
    Nodding her russet hood?
    The winds that awakened the stars
    Are blowing through my blood.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
    The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
    And all the good embrace, who know the grave
    A short dark passage to eternal light.
    —Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)

    I am content to live it all again,
    And yet again, if it be life to pitch
    Into the frog-spawn of a blind man’s ditch.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Like the moon her kindness is.
    If kindness I may call
    What has no comprehension in’t,
    But is the same for all
    As though my sorrow were a scene
    Upon a painted wall.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)