Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE SEVEN WOODS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the pigeons of the seven woods Last Line: A cloudy quiver over parc-na-lee. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Coole, Ireland | ||||||||
I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees Hum in the lime tree flowers; and put away The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness Upon the throne and crying about the streets And hanging its paper flowers from post to post, Because it is alone of all things happy. I am contented, for I know that Quiet Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer, Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs A cloudy quiver over Parc-na-Lee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE SHADOWY WATERS: INTRODUCTORY LINES by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS COOLE PARK, 1929 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SOLOMON TO SHEBA by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE FISH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE GREY ROCK by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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