Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


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First Line: In pity for man's darkening thought
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The


In pity for man's darkening thought
He walked that room and issued thence
In Galilean turbulence;
The Babylonian starlight brought
A fabulous, formless darkness in;
Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.
Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love's pleasure drives his love away,
The painter's brush consumes his dreams;
The herald's cry, the soldier's tread
Exhaust his glory and his might:
Whatever flames upon the night
Man's own resinous heart has fed.





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