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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ARROW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought of your beauty, and this arrow
Last Line: I could weep that the old is out of season.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire
First Line: I thought of your beauty, and this arrow
Last Line: I could weep that the old is out of season.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire
I thought of your beauty, and this arrow,
Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.
There's no man may look upon her, no man,
As when newly grown to be a woman,
Blossom pale, she pulled down the pale blossom
At the moth hour and hid it in her bosom.
This beauty's kinder, yet for a reason
I could weep that the old is out of season.
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