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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SHADOWY WATERS: THE HARP OF AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Edain came out of midhir's hill, and lay
Last Line: But faithful lovers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mythology – Irish
First Line: Edain came out of midhir's hill, and lay
Last Line: But faithful lovers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mythology – Irish
Edain came out of Midhir's hill, and lay
Beside young Aengus in his tower of glass,
Where time is drowned in odour-laden winds
And Druid moons, and murmuring of boughs,
And sleepy boughs, and boughs where apples made
Of opal and ruby and pale chrysolite
Awake unsleeping fires; and wove seven strings,
Sweet with all music, out of his long hair,
Because her hands had been made wild by love.
When Midhir's wife had changed her to a fly,
He made a harp with Druid apple-wood
That she among her winds might know he wept;
And from that hour he has watched over none
But faithful lovers.
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