Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept on my three-legged stool by the fire Last Line: The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots | ||||||||
I slept on my three-legged stool by the fire, The speckled cat slept on my knee; We never thought to enquire Where the brown hare might be, And whether the door were shut. Who knows how she drank the wind Stretched up on two legs from the mat, Before she had settled her mind To drum with her heel and to leap? Had I but awakened from sleep And called her name, she had heard, It may be, and had not stirred, That now, it may be, has found The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VILLAGE IDIOT by EDWARD HIRSCH TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE FOOL'S ADVENTURE by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE THE CASE OF ALBERT IRVING WILLIAMSON by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS LOVE POSTPONED by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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