Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this importunate heart trouble your peace Last Line: The odorous twilight there. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Michael Robartes Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods Subject(s): Moods; Forgiveness | ||||||||
If this importunate heart trouble your peace With words lighter than air, Or hopes that in mere hoping flicker and cease; Crumple the rose in your hair; And cover your lips with odorous twilight and say, 'O Hearts of wind-blown flame! 'O Winds, elder than changing of night and day, 'That murmuring and longing came 'From marble cities loud with tabors of old 'In dove-gray faery lands; 'From battle banners, fold upon purple fold, 'Queens wrought with glimmering hands; 'That saw young Niamh hover with love-lorn face 'Above the wandering tide; 'And lingered in the hidden desolate place 'Where the last Phoenix died, 'And wrapped the flames above his holy head; 'And still murmur and long: 'O Piteous Hearts, changing till change be dead 'In a tumultuous song': And cover the pale blossoms of your breast With your dim heavy hair, And trouble with a sign for all things longing for rest The odorous twilight there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE NOTE: 2. FLAGS by GWENDOLYN BROOKS FORGIVING MY FATHER by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE RIGHTFUL ONE by DAVID IGNATOW I'VE NOTHING TO OFFER by DAVID IGNATOW WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD by DORIANNE LAUX THE MAN WITH THE HOE OUTWITTED by EDWIN MARKHAM SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELMER BARR by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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