William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats – Verso Bisanzio / Sailing to Byzantium

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / Idyll, soul, travel, youth

Lucas Cranach, The fountain of Youth, 1546 That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees,- Those dying generations – at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.An …

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William Butler Yeats – Quando tu sarai vecchia / When You Are Old

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / Dream, reading

William Mulready, A Fireside Read, 1825 When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But …

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William Butler Yeats (1865 -1939)

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / modernism, romanticism

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet. He was interested in occultism and spiritualism, as well as in realism. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

William Butler Yeats – Verso Bisanzio / Sailing to Byzantium

William Butler Yeats – Quando tu sarai vecchia / When You Are Old

William Butler Yeats (1865 -1939)

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