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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIENDS FOR OLD FRIENDS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you are in your shining days Last Line: For all eyes but these eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Poet Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends Subject(s): Friendship | |||
Though you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU & I BELONG IN THIS KITCHEN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JASON THE REAL by TONY HOAGLAND NO RESURRECTION by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 by JAMES JOYCE THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL ALMSWOMAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TO AN ENEMY by MAXWELL BODENHEIM SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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