When You Are Old
Written for Maud Gonne when Yeats was in his twenties, this three-quatrain lyric asks the beloved to picture herself old by the fire — and to see, too late, that one man loved her soul rather than her beauty.
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w. b. yeats
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.