Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECONCILIATION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some may have blamed you that you took away Last Line: My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Despair; Reconciliation | ||||||||
SOME may have blamed you that you took away The verses that could move them on the day When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind With lightning, you went from me, and I could find Nothing to make a song about but kings, Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things That were like memories of you -- but now We'll out, for the world lives as long ago; And while we're in our laughing, weeping fit, Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit. But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone, My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE QUARREL by KATHERINE MANSFIELD RECONCILIATION by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN GOOD FRIDAY -- 1917 by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY RECONCILIATION by ELIZABETH DOTEN A FAIR QUARREL by THOMAS MIDDLETON RECONCILIATION by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE by MANLEY H. PIKE SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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