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Quotes from The Green Helmet and Other Poems — William Butler Yeats

1865–1939 Ireland

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Till the wilderness cried aloud,
A secret between you two,
Between the proud and the proud.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

Yet she, singing upon her road,
Half lion, half child, is at peace.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
'Twere politic to do the like by these;
But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas?

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

Crying amid the glittering sea,
Naming it with the ecstatic breath,
Because it had such dignity,
By the sweet name of Death.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

Have you made greatness your companion,
Although it be for children that you sigh:
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?
The hourly kindness, the day’s common speech,
The habitual content of each with each
When neither soul nor body has been crossed.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Butler Yeats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.