Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Last Line: Whither her footsteps go. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Aedh Pleads With The Elemental Powers Subject(s): Power | ||||||||
The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Have pulled the Immortal Rose; And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept, The Polar Dragon slept, His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep: When will he wake from sleep? Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease; Unfold your flaming wings and cover out of sight The nets of day and night. Dim Powers of drowsy thought, let her no longer be Like the pale cup of the sea, When winds have gathered and sun and moon burned dim Above its cloudy rim; But let a gentle silence wrought with music flow Whither her footsteps go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT IF OUR NUMBERS BARELY COULD DEFY by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 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 THE HAWK by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE KING'S THRESHOLD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
|