Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 9. A LAST CONFESSION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lively lad most pleasured me Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Erotic | ||||||||
WHAT lively lad most pleasured me Of all that with me lay? I answer that I gave my soul And loved in misery, But had great pleasure with a lad That I loved bodily. Flinging from his arms I laughed To think his passion such He fancied that I gave a soul Did but our bodies touch, And laughed upon his breast to think Beast gave beast as much. I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes. But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, And give his own and take his own And rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There's not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS ULYSSES: MOLLY BLOOM'S CLOSING SOLILOQUY by JAMES JOYCE THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS by KIZER. CAROLYN SLEEPING WITH WOMEN by KENNETH KOCH SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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