Quotes from Crossways — William Butler Yeats
1865–1939 Ireland
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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Crossways (1889)
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
Crossways (1889)
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
Crossways (1889)
The woods of Arcady are dead,
And over is their antique joy;
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Grey Truth is now her painted toy;
Yet still she turns her restless head.
Crossways (1889)
Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
Crossways (1889)
Words alone are certain good.
Crossways (1889)