I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young And weep because I know all things now: I have been a hazel tree, and they hung The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough Among my leaves in times out of mind: I became a rush that horses tread: I became a man, a hater of the wind, Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head Would not lie on the breast of his lips on the hair Of the woman that he loves, until he dies; Although the rushes and the fowl of the air Cry of his love with their pitiful cries. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHEN THE SPEED COMES by ROBERT FROST THE FAMILY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD HAWORTH CHURCHYARD by MATTHEW ARNOLD LAST SONNET (REVISED VERSION) by JOHN KEATS AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY |