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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PAUDEEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
Last Line: A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Equalioty; God
First Line: Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
Last Line: A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Equalioty; God
INDIGNANT at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
Of our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind
Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning light;
Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind
A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought
That on the lonely height where all are in God's eye,
There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot,
A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.
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