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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
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.
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