Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF ... HEAVEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have drunk ale from the country of the young Last Line: Cry of his love with their pitiful cries. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Mongan Thinks Of His Greatness Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory | ||||||||
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young And weep because I know all things now: I have been a hazel tree, and they hung The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough Among my leaves in times out of mind: I became a rush that horses tread: I became a man, a hater of the wind, Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head Would not lie on the breast of his lips on the hair Of the woman that he loves, until he dies; Although the rushes and the fowl of the air Cry of his love with their pitiful cries. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND THE SAME QUESTION by JOHN HOLLANDER FORGET HOW TO REMEMBER HOW TO FORGET by JOHN HOLLANDER ON THAT SIDE by LAWRENCE JOSEPH MEMORY OF A PORCH by DONALD JUSTICE BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS by DONALD JUSTICE SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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