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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INTO THE TWILIGHT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outworn heart in a time outworn Last Line: And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging | |||
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight gray; Though hope fall from you and love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind that the gray twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA by ROBERT HASS MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND AMOROSA AND COMPANY by CONRAD AIKEN GRAY WEATHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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