By Richard J. Finneran (eds.)
This new version of The gathered Poems of W.B.Yeats comprises the entire poems approved for ebook by means of Yeats in his lifetime. From skilful retellings of historic Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations at the calls for and rewards of teenage and outdated age, those beautiful, sometimes whimsical songs of affection, nature and artwork stand in dramatic distinction to the sombre and indignant poems of lifestyles in a state torn through warfare and rebellion. within the wealthy and recurrent imagery of the rose, the gyre and the tower the reader can hint Yeats's quest to unite mind and artistry in one compelling imaginative and prescient. incorporated during this variation are Yeats's notes complemented by way of explanatory notes from the esteemed Yeats student Richard J.Finneran.
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Ay, ay. Anashuya. Swear by the parents of the gods, Dread oath, who dwell on sacred Himalay, On the far Golden Peak; enormous shapes, Who still were old when the great sea was young; On their vast faces mystery and dreams; Their hair along the mountains rolled and filled From year to year by the unnumbered nests Of aweless birds, and round their stirless feet The joyous flocks of deer and antelope, Who never hear the unforgiving hound. Swear! Vijaya. By the parents of the gods, I swear. 70 13 CROSSWAYS Anashuya [sings].
35 50 One went and came. ' Again the fighting sped, But now the war-rage in Cuchulain woke, And through that new blade's guard the old blade broke, And pierced him. ' 'I put you from your pain. ' While day its burden on to evening bore, With head bowed on his knees Cuchulain stayed; Then Conchubar sent that sweet-throated maid, And she, to win him, his grey hair caressed; In vain her arms, in vain her soft white breast. Then Conchubar, the subtlest of all men, Ranking his Druids round him ten by ten, 70 LYRICAL )6 Spake thus: 'Cuchulain will dwell there and brood For three days more in dreadful quietude, And then arise, and raving slay us all.
She says my man will surely come, And fetch me home agin; But always, as I'm movin' round, Without doors or within, Pilin' the wood or pilin' the turf, Or goin' to the well, I'm thinkin' of my baby And keenin' to mysel'. And sometimes I am sure she knows When, openin' wide His door, God lights the stars, His candles, And looks upon the poor. So now, ye little childer, Ye won't fling stones at me; But gather with your shinin' looks And pity Moll Magee. r6 The Ballad of the Foxhunter 'Lay me in a cushioned chair; Carry me, ye four, With cushions here and cushions there, To see the world once more.