The Collected Poems by Yeats W. B

Author:Yeats, W. B. [Yeats, W. B.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

COLONUS’ PRAISE

Chorus. Come praise Colonus’ horses, and come praise The wine-dark of the wood’s intricacies,

The nightingale that deafens daylight there,

If daylight ever visit where,

Unvisited by tempest or by sun,

Immortal ladies tread the ground

Dizzy with harmonious sound,

Semele’s lad a gay companion.

And yonder in the gymnasts’ garden thrives

The self-sown, self-begotten shape that gives Athenian intellect its mastery,

Even the grey-leaved olive-tree

Miracle-bred out of the living stone;

Nor accident of peace nor war

Shall wither that old marvel, for

The great grey-eyed Athene stares thereon.

Who comes into this country, and has come

Where golden crocus and narcissus bloom,

Where the Great Mother, mourning for her daughter And beauty-drunken by the water

Glittering among grey-leaved olive-trees,

Has plucked a flower and sung her loss;

Who finds abounding Cephisus

Has found the loveliest spectacle there is.

Because this country has a pious mind

And so remembers that when all mankind

But trod the road, or splashed about the shore, Poseidon gave it bit and oar,

Every Colonus lad or lass discourses

Of that oar and of that bit;

Summer and winter, day and night,

Of horses and horses of the sea, white horses.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.