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And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
William Butler Yeats
The Song of Wandering Aengus

You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attendance upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?
William Butler Yeats
The Spur

We Irish, born into that ancient sect
But thrown upon this filthy modern tide
And by its formless spawning fury wrecked,
Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace
The lineaments of a plummet-measured race.
William Butler Yeats
The Statues.

Swift has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot laterate his breast.
William Butler Yeats
Swift's Epitaph

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
William Butler Yeats
To a Poet, Who would have Me Praise certain bad Poets, imitators of His and of Mine

What shall I do with this absurdity -
O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature,
Decrepit age that has been tied to me
As to a dog's tail?
William Butler Yeats
The Tower

Irish poets, learn your trade,
Sing whatever is well made.
William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben

Cast your mind on other days
That we in coming days may be
Still the indomitable Irishry.
William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben

Under Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben

Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!
William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben

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W. B. Yeats: Irish Poet, Dramatist. Born 1865. Died 1939. Nobel Literature Prize 1923.