item: #1 of 27 id: 10459 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Celtic Twilight date: None words: 40123 flesch: 82 summary: There were fine passages in all, but these were often embedded in thoughts which have evidently a special value to his mind, but are to other men the counters of an unknown coinage. These two men were of the size of living men, but the others were small. keywords: children; day; door; faeries; faery; fire; friend; god; good; great; hair; house; jack; life; little; man; men; mind; mother; night; people; place; round; saw; tell; things; time; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 10459.txt plain text: 10459.txt item: #2 of 27 id: 15153 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Land of Heart's Desire date: None words: 4399 flesch: 97 summary: MAIRE BRUIN _sits on the settle reading a yellow manuscript. MAIRE BRUIN _stays on the settle as if in a trance of terror. keywords: bruin; child; father; hart; maire bruin cache: 15153.txt plain text: 15153.txt item: #3 of 27 id: 30488 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Green Helmet and Other Poems date: None words: 6907 flesch: 90 summary: And now, being gray, I dream that I have brought To such a pitch my thought That coming time can say, He shadowed in a glass What thing her body was. [_He places the Helmet on CUCHULAIN'S head_] keywords: conall; cuchulain; helmet; house; laegaire; man; sea; wife cache: 30488.txt plain text: 30488.txt item: #4 of 27 id: 30652 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: In The Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age date: None words: 11773 flesch: 96 summary: FOURTH OLD KING. You'd better drink, For old men light upon their youth again In the brown ale. keywords: aoife; barach; concobar; cuchullain; door; fintain; heart; king; man; men; sword; wind; woman cache: 30652.txt plain text: 30652.txt item: #5 of 27 id: 31959 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Seven Poems and a Fragment date: None words: 3358 flesch: 79 summary: Such thought--such thought have I that hold it tight Till meditation master all its parts, Nothing can stay my glance Until that glance run in the world's despite To where the damned have howled away their hearts, And where the blessed dance; Such thought, that in it bound I need no other thing Wound in mind's wandering, He loved strange thought And knew that sweet extremity of pride That's called platonic love, And that to such a pitch of passion wrought Nothing could bring him, when his lady died, Anodyne for his love. keywords: end; king; love; mock; pupil; thought; world cache: 31959.txt plain text: 31959.txt item: #6 of 27 id: 32233 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Wind Among the Reeds date: None words: 11496 flesch: 74 summary: O'Driscoll scattered the cards And out of his dream awoke: Old men and young men and young girls Were gone like a drifting smoke; But he heard high up in the air A piper piping away, And never was piping so sad, And never was piping so gay. BREASAL THE FISHERMAN Although you hide in the ebb and flow Of the pale tide when the moon has set, The people of coming days will know About the casting out of my net, And how you have leaped times out of mind Over the little silver cords, And think that you were hard and unkind, And blame you with many bitter words. MICHAEL ROBARTES REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY 27 A POET TO HIS BELOVED 29 AEDH GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES 30 TO MY HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR 31 THE CAP AND BELLS 32 THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG 35 MICHAEL ROBARTES ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS 37 AEDH TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS 40 AEDH TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY 42 AEDH HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE 43 AEDH THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED 44 THE BLESSED 45 THE SECRET ROSE 47 HANRAHAN LAMENTS BECAUSE OF HIS WANDERINGS 51 THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION 52 THE POET PLEADS WITH HIS FRIEND FOR OLD FRIENDS 54 HANRAHAN SPEAKS TO THE LOVERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS 55 AEDH PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS 57 AEDH WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD 59 AEDH WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN 60 MONGAN THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS 61 NOTES 65 THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE keywords: aedh; battle; beloved; day; dream; eyes; hair; heart; love; night; rose; sidhe; time; wind; woman cache: 32233.txt plain text: 32233.txt item: #7 of 27 id: 32491 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Wild Swans at Coole date: None words: 9622 flesch: 81 summary: O heart, we are old, The living beauty is for younger men, We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath When you are passing; But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing Because it was your prayer Recovered him upon the bed of death. keywords: aherne; beauty; day; eyes; face; heart; man; men; mind; moon; robartes; shepherd; thought; world; youth cache: 32491.txt plain text: 32491.txt item: #8 of 27 id: 32884 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Ideas of Good and Evil date: None words: 57182 flesch: 57 summary: The Divine Comedy_ will be laid, one imagines, with some ceremony in that immortal wastepaper-basket in which Time carries with many sighs the failures of great men. The gatherers mock all expression that is wholly unlike their own, just as little boys in the street mock at strangely-dressed people and at old men who talk to themselves. keywords: art; arts; beauty; blake; body; cave; dante; day; death; desire; emotion; eyes; god; good; half; images; imagination; life; light; love; man; memory; men; mind; modern; moment; nature; people; perfect; poetry; poets; power; saw; shelley; spirit; symbols; things; think; thought; time; tree; vision; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 32884.txt plain text: 32884.txt item: #9 of 27 id: 33087 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Discoveries: A Volume of Essays date: None words: 10804 flesch: 58 summary: Emotion, on the other hand, grows intoxicating and delightful after it has been enriched with the memory of old emotions, with all the uncounted flavours of old experience, and it is necessarily an antiquity of thought, emotions that have been deepened by the experiences of many men of genius, that distinguishes the cultivated man. I have always come to this certainty, what moves natural men in the arts is what moves them in life, and that is, intensity of personal life, intonations that show them in a book or a play, the strength, the essential moment of a man who would be exciting in the market or at the dispensary door. keywords: art; beauty; body; imagination; life; man; men; mind; people; play; poet; soul; things; thought; world cache: 33087.txt plain text: 33087.txt item: #10 of 27 id: 33094 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Cutting of an Agate date: None words: 46720 flesch: 59 summary: These gods are indeed more wise and beautiful than men; but men, when they are great men, are stronger than they are, for men are, as it were, the foaming tide-line of their sea. Emotion, on the other hand, grows intoxicating and delightful after it has been enriched with the memory of old emotions, with all the uncounted flavours of old experience; and it is necessarily some antiquity of thought, emotions that have been deepened by the experiences of many men of genius, that distinguishes the cultivated man. keywords: art; beauty; body; book; character; country; day; death; delight; emotion; eyes; good; imagination; ireland; irish; life; literature; long; love; man; men; mind; modern; new; passion; people; place; play; poetry; poets; soul; spenser; stories; story; synge; things; think; thought; time; way; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 33094.txt plain text: 33094.txt item: #11 of 27 id: 33321 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Two plays for dancers date: None words: 6648 flesch: 90 summary: EMER What one among the Sidhe has dared to lie Upon Cuchulain's bed and take his image? FIGURE of CUCHULAIN I am named Bricriu--not the man--that Bricriu, Maker of discord among gods and men, Called Bricriu of the Sidhe. WOMAN of the SIDHE Was it from pity that you hid the truth That men are bound to women by the wrongs They do or suffer? FIGURE of CUCHULAIN You know what being I am. keywords: cuchulain; eithne; emer; figure; inguba; man; sidhe; woman; young cache: 33321.txt plain text: 33321.txt item: #12 of 27 id: 33338 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Per Amica Silentia Lunae date: None words: 13396 flesch: 66 summary: There are indeed certain men whose art is less an opposing virtue than a compensation for some accident of health or circumstance. One met everywhere young men of letters who talked of magic. keywords: body; daemon; dead; desire; dream; fire; images; life; man; men; mind; poet; power; self; soul; thought; time; vehicle; world; years cache: 33338.txt plain text: 33338.txt item: #13 of 27 id: 33348 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Reveries over Childhood and Youth date: None words: 32448 flesch: 72 summary: From that on I wandered about raths and faery hills and questioned old women and old men and, when I was tired out or unhappy, began to long for some such end as True Thomas found. My uncle had the respect of the common people as few Sligo men have had it; he would have thought a stronger emotion an intrusion on his privacy. keywords: boy; boys; day; days; father; friend; good; grandfather; head; home; house; ireland; life; man; master; memory; men; mind; mother; night; people; room; rosses; round; school; sea; sligo; tell; thought; time; uncle; way; woman; years; young cache: 33348.txt plain text: 33348.txt item: #14 of 27 id: 33430 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Mosada: A dramatic poem date: None words: 3030 flesch: 99 summary: _First Inquisitor._ _First Inquisitor. keywords: cola; ebremar; inquisitor; monk; mosada; world cache: 33430.txt plain text: 33430.txt item: #15 of 27 id: 33505 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Trembling of the Veil date: None words: 71630 flesch: 62 summary: Henceforth no mind made like a perfectly proportioned human body shall sway the public, for great men must live in a portion of themselves, become professional and abstract; but seeing that the moon's third quarter is scarce passed, that abstraction has attained but not passed its climax, that a half, as I affirm it, of the twenty-second night still lingers, they may subdue and conquer; cherish, even, some Utopian dream; spread abstraction ever further till thought is but a film, and there is no dark depth any more, surface only. I have known men come to London full of bright prospects and seen them complete wrecks in a few months through a habit of answering letters. keywords: art; beauty; body; book; conversation; country; day; dublin; eyes; face; father; friend; generation; genius; good; half; head; henley; house; image; ireland; irish; johnson; letters; life; literature; little; london; love; man; meeting; men; mind; moment; morris; movement; new; night; passion; people; place; poetry; public; room; self; society; speech; story; talk; things; thought; time; voice; way; wilde; woman; words; work; world; write; writing; years; young; youth cache: 33505.txt plain text: 33505.txt item: #16 of 27 id: 36865 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Responsibilities, and other poems date: None words: 17938 flesch: 89 summary: Oh yes, there has; some craziness has fallen from the wind, or risen from the graves of old men, and made you choose that subject. WISE MAN That passage, that passage! keywords: angel; beggar; children; day; eyes; fool; god; great; king; life; like; look; love; man; men; penny; pupil; things; thought; time; wind; world cache: 36865.txt plain text: 36865.txt item: #17 of 27 id: 38349 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre date: None words: 21673 flesch: 102 summary: _ Paul Ruttledge, a Country Gentleman. Paul, are you coming in to lunch? _Paul Ruttledge. keywords: aloysius; charlie; charlie ward; colman; come; friar; good; green; jerome; like; paul ruttledge; people; sabina; thomas; time; ward cache: 38349.txt plain text: 38349.txt item: #18 of 27 id: 38877 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Poems date: None words: 37729 flesch: 89 summary: CATHLEEN Old man, old man, He never closed a door And we rode on the plains of the sea's edge; the sea's edge barren and gray, Gray sand on the green of the grasses and over the dripping trees, Dripping and doubling landward, as though they would hasten away Like an army of old men longing for rest from the moan of the seas. keywords: aleel; cathleen; child; come; day; door; dreams; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; god; hands; head; heart; house; leaves; les; light; love; man; mary; maurteen; men; merchant; money; oona; pale; peasant; rose; round; sea; shemus; sorrow; soul; stars; teig; things; time; white; woman; wood; world; years; young cache: 38877.txt plain text: 38877.txt item: #19 of 27 id: 43611 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi date: None words: 7296 flesch: 63 summary: Those two chapters tell of men and women who railed upon their parents, remembering that their god was older than the god of their parents; and that which has the sword of Michael for an emblem commends the kings that wrought secret murder and so won for their people a peace that was _amore somnoque gravata et vestibus versicoloribus_, heavy with love and sleep and many-coloured raiment; and that with the pale star at the closing has the lives of the noble youths who loved the wives of others and were transformed into memories, which have transformed many poorer hearts into sweet flames; and that with the winged head is the history of the robbers who lived upon the sea or in the desert, lives which it compares to the twittering of the string of a bow, _nervi stridentis instar_; and those two last, that are fire and gold, are devoted to the satirists who bore false witness against their neighbours and yet illustrated eternal wrath, and to those that have coveted more than other men the house of God, and all things that are His, which no man has seen and handled, except in madness and in dreams. Why do you fly from our torches that were made out of sweet wood, after it had perished from the world and come to us who made it of old times with our breath?' keywords: book; eyes; house; life; men; things; time; voice; woman; world cache: 43611.txt plain text: 43611.txt item: #20 of 27 id: 5167 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Countess Cathleen date: None words: 14287 flesch: 95 summary: Deux jours apr`es, les ordres de la pieuse Ketty `etaient ex`ecues et le tr`esor `etait distribu`e aux pauvres au fur et `a mesure de leurs besoins. Mais, huit jours, c'`etait un si`ecle: huit jours n`ecessitaient une somme immense pour subvenir aux exigences de la disette, et les pauvres allaient ou expirer dans les angoisses de la faim, ou, reniant les saintes maximes de l'Evangile, vendre `a vil prix leur `ame, le plus beau pr`esent de la munificence du Seigneur toutpuissant. keywords: aleel; cathleen; countess; door; elle; god; heart; house; les; mary; men; merchant; money; oona; peasant; second; shemus; soul; teig; woman; world cache: 5167.txt plain text: 5167.txt item: #21 of 27 id: 5168 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Land of Heart's Desire date: None words: 4907 flesch: 97 summary: Old mother, have you no sweet food for me? BRIDGET. Put on my shoes, old mother. keywords: bridget; child; father; hart; mary; maurteen cache: 5168.txt plain text: 5168.txt item: #22 of 27 id: 5793 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Stories of Red Hanrahan date: None words: 14784 flesch: 74 summary: One of the young men said, 'It isn't much of the riches of the world has stopped with yourself, old man,' and he looked at the old man's bare feet, and they all laughed. Then he saw a crowd coming up to the cabin from the road, and he took notice that all the crowd was made up of old men, and that the leaders of it were Paddy Bruen, Michael Gill and Paddy Doe, and there was not one in the crowd but had in his hand an ash stick or a blackthorn. keywords: door; hand; hanrahan; house; man; men; night; place; time; woman; world cache: 5793.txt plain text: 5793.txt item: #23 of 27 id: 5794 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Rosa Alchemica date: None words: 7811 flesch: 48 summary: And then I passed beyond these forms, which were so beautiful they had almost ceased to be, and, having endured strange moods, melancholy, as it seemed, with the weight of many worlds, I passed into that Death which is Beauty herself, and into that Loneliness which all the multitudes desire without ceasing. I opened the door, and found myself in a marvellous passage, along whose sides were many divinities wrought in a mosaic, not less beautiful than the mosaic in the Baptistery at Ravenna, but of a less severe beauty; the predominant colour of each divinity, which was surely a symbolic colour, being repeated in the lamps that hung from the ceiling, a curiously-scented lamp before every divinity. keywords: dance; door; half; life; man; michael; moment; robartes; rose; thought; world cache: 5794.txt plain text: 5794.txt item: #24 of 27 id: 5795 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Secret Rose date: None words: 22413 flesch: 71 summary: Costello fumbled at the bag in which he carried his money, and it was some time before it would open, for the hand that had overcome many men shook with fear and hope. For the next few days Duallach went hither and thither trying to raise a bodyguard, and every man he met had some story of Costello, how he killed the wrestler when but a boy by so straining at the belt that went about them both that he broke the big wrestler's back; how when somewhat older he dragged fierce horses through a ford in the Unchion for a wager; how when he came to manhood he broke the steel horseshoe in Mayo; how he drove many men before him through Rushy Meadow at Drum-an-air because of a malevolent song they had about his poverty; and of many another deed of his strength and pride; but he could find none who would trust themselves with any so passionate and poor in a quarrel with careful and wealthy persons like Dermott of the Sheep and Namara of the Lake. keywords: abbot; brother; costello; day; dermott; door; eyes; fire; god; hair; heart; house; man; men; moment; rose; voice; water; way; white; wood cache: 5795.txt plain text: 5795.txt item: #25 of 27 id: 6865 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Four Years date: None words: 21577 flesch: 63 summary: I was convinced, from some obscure meditation, that Stevenson's conversational method had joined him to my elders and to the indifferent world, as though it were right for old men, and unambitious men and all women, to be content with charm and humour. When I think of him, the antithesis that is the foundation of human nature being ever in my sight, I see his crippled legs as though he were some Vulcan perpetually forging swords for other men to use; and certainly I always thought of C..., a fine classical scholar, a pale and seemingly gentle man, as our chief swordsman and bravo. keywords: art; blake; day; dublin; ellis; eyes; father; friend; good; half; henley; house; irish; life; man; men; mind; morris; night; people; pre; room; talk; thought; time; wilde; woman; work; world; years cache: 6865.txt plain text: 6865.txt item: #26 of 27 id: 7448 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: The Hour Glass date: None words: 4696 flesch: 101 summary: WISE MAN [turning over the pages of a book]. WISE MAN. keywords: angel; door; fool; man cache: 7448.txt plain text: 7448.txt item: #27 of 27 id: 8557 author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) title: Synge and the Ireland of His Time date: None words: 10890 flesch: 59 summary: A patriotic journalism which had seen in Synge's capricious imagination the enemy of all it would have young men believe, had for years prepared for this hour, by that which is at once the greatest and most ignoble power of journalism, the art of repeating a name again and again with some ridiculous or evil association. Synge had indeed no obvious ideals, as these are understood by young men, and even as I think disliked them, for he once complained to me that our modern poetry was but the poetry 'of the lyrical boy,' and this lack makes his art have a strange wildness and coldness, as of a man born in some far-off spacious land and time. keywords: day; delight; eyes; ireland; irish; life; man; men; mind; people; synge; things; thought; time; women; world; young cache: 8557.txt plain text: 8557.txt