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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER (1865-1939) Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABBEY THEATRE FIRE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pride made of yeats a rhetorician Last Line: Those firemen might have spared their water Subject(s): Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Fire; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) ABBEY THEATRE FIRE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One of our verse-speakers, driving Last Line: Ill match, would bring his curtain down Subject(s): Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Fire; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) ADAM'S CURSE REVISITED, by DEBRA PENNINGTON Poem Source First Line: So master william has decreed the stitching Last Line: That you can both shape and stitch the world? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) AT DRUMCLIFFE CHURCHYARD, COUNTY SLIGO, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: That great feather the mind's wind drives Last Line: For this feather breath breathes too %upon you Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) BLUES FOR BYZANTIUM, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clangs of yeats like blues Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) BRING HOME THE POET, by PATRICK MACDONOGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They hade been taken far Subject(s): Animals; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Last Line: In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: A sudden blow, the indictment beating still Last Line: I see central park and ireland's wild shore, %where a fisherman casts his long lament Subject(s): Clifford, Clark (1906-1998); Poetry And Poets; Trials; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) FOR THE OLD YEATS, by JAMES SCHEVILL Poem Source First Line: The great ripping goes on in all minds Last Line: To the bawdy laughter of the world Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) I'M SO PLEASED THAT YEATS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Though I have only one Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) IN A COPY OF YEATS' POEMS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accurate knowledge was prerequisite Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He disappeared in the dead of winter Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Theology IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He disappeared in the dead of winter Last Line: Pardons him for writing well Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Religion; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS (1966 VERSION), by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He disappeared in the dead of winter Last Line: Teach the free man how to praise Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) INSTRUCTIONS TO A MEDIUM, TO BE TRANSMITTED TO THE SHADE OF W.B. YEATS, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were wrong about the way it happens Subject(s): Death; Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Spiritualists IOWA, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: If yeats, remembering the swans in irish Last Line: With many songs! Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Iowa; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) JOHN BUTLER YEATS, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall remember him Last Line: "myself seen through a glass darkly." Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LEDA, by CHANDA J. GLASS Poem Source First Line: Exactly %fourteen years and Last Line: Fistfuls of %bloody white feathers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LEDA AND THE SWINE (AFTER YEATS), by DAVID SHEVIN Poem Source First Line: The snort, basso profundo: hooves come a-clopping Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Swans; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LOOKING BACK AT YEATS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun in the leaves again. Yeats stares Last Line: Through the broken ozone, burns. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) MAKING NOTHING HAPPEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Auden smiled and slyly said Last Line: And a warm head Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Jokes; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) MAUDE GONNE: FIRST MEETING, by KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK Poem Source First Line: She'd come out in her slippers Last Line: Became confidante, friend. A character %in her own story Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) MEMORIES OF YEATS WHILE TRAVELLING TO HOLYHEAD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often he went on this journey, think of it, think of it Last Line: In mutual silence closer than lover knit %I had known reality dwindle, the dream begin Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) MERCY IN IT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man gone weak in the legs Last Line: That tells of his heart's old loves Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) NEW PRAYER FOR DAUGHTERS, by JEAN LEBLANC Poem Source First Line: When I was a child there were no towers Last Line: With fire within, your vision is your own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) ODE: ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: An old thorn tree in a stony place Last Line: Of the sky his cold and passionate song. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Death; Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality and yeats were two Last Line: Signals from some reality Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality and yeats were two Last Line: Signals from reality Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Reality; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The THE COCKNEY OF THE NORTH, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to inverness Last Line: In scotland — now! Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO AUSTIN CLARKE, by EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: William butler yeats is dead Last Line: Crying before they are hurt, but brave' Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Last Line: When all is ruin once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Last Line: From fashion or an empty mind, %what referty built and stone designed Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO W. B. YEATS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathless of laurel plucked by delian springs Last Line: Where thy own rose reigns queen of all the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Temples; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Paradise; Mosques TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our kind vandalize the earth Last Line: The joy and burden of our song Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our kind vandalize the earth Last Line: The joy and burden of our song Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is made clear by the phrase Last Line: Outshines ordinary jewels, is your praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tagore, Rabindranath, Sir (1861-1941); Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) UNDOUBTEDLY MISS EDGEWORTH, by KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK Poem Source First Line: Yeats said that in your youth Last Line: Explanations. He helped them to bar her way Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Women; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) VILLANELLE WITH A LINE BY YEATS, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: When you are old and gray and full of sleep Last Line: When you are old and gray and full of sleep %we'll rock together, dozing on the deep Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) WAITING FOR IT, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yeats said that. Young Last Line: For one flower to open %on the mind's tree of thorns Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Variant Title(s): Waitin Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Waiting; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHERE TO FIND HEAVEN, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: If you're a gnat Last Line: The constant %fluttering Subject(s): Faith; God; Heaven; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) YEATS AND THE RIGHT HAND, by JOHN POCH Poem Source First Line: If I make my eyes the calmest almonds Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Hands; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) YEATS, RIVETED TO REVISIONS, by JAMES SCHEVILL Poem Source First Line: Did yeats, as dyslexic, write 'hell' Last Line: Out of the beast's inviting, oracular mouth Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) |
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