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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fellow-artist, why so free / with every sort of company Last Line: With landor and with donne. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship - Selectivity | |||
Dear fellow-artist, why so free With every sort of company, With every Jack and Jill? Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest Soon topples down the hill. You may, that mirror for a school, Be passionate, not bountiful As common beauties may, Who were not born to keep in trim With old Ezekiel's cherubim But those of Beauvarlet. I know what wages beauty gives, How hard a life her servant lives, Yet praise the winters gone: There is not a fool can call me a friend, And I may dine at journey's end With Landor and with Donne. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HELSINKI, 1940 by ANSELM HOLLO YOUR LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST by M. C. HAECKER THE CHOICE OF FRIENDS by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI STRANGERS IN THE DUSK by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER THE INVITATION by LEONARD WELSTED THE FIRST-RATE WIFE by CORNELIUS WHUR SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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