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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PEACOCK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What's riches to him
Last Line: For the pride of his eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): The Peacock
Subject(s): Pride; Contentment
First Line: What's riches to him
Last Line: For the pride of his eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): The Peacock
Subject(s): Pride; Contentment
WHAT'S riches to him
That has made a great peacock
With the pride of his eye?
The wind-beaten, stone-grey,
And desolate Three Rock
Would nourish his whim.
Live he or die
Amid wet rocks and heather,
His ghost will be gay
Adding feather to feather
For the pride of his eye.
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