Friendship Poems

Friendship Poems by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats Biography
William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, in Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland to John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen, who moved to Sligo shortly after Williams's birth. Yeats referred to the Sligo area as his childhood and spiritual home. The Butler Yeats... Continue reading William Butler Yeats Biography

The Mother Of God
By William Butler Yeats The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The terror of all terrors that I bore The Heavens in my womb. Had I not found content among the shows Every... Continue reading The Mother Of God

The Song Of The Old Mother
By William Butler Yeats I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long... Continue reading The Song Of The Old Mother

When You Are Old
by William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your... Continue reading When You Are Old

Friends
by William Butler Yeats Now must I these three praise Three women that have wrought What joy is in my days: One because no thought, Nor those unpassing cares, No, not in these fifteen Many-times-troubled years, Could ever come between Mind and delighted mind; And... Continue reading Friends