When You Are Old
Yeats reflects on love and memory in “When You Are Old,” a tender vision of devotion and time’s quiet sorrow.
Theme
irish poetry
3 poems
irish poetry
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
A lyrical vision of retreat, where remembered waters guide the heart toward quiet and self-sufficiency.
W. B. Yeats
Discover W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet whose mystical vision and modernist craft reshaped twentieth-century poetry.