The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats & George Bornstein

Author:William Butler Yeats & George Bornstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

A DEEP-SWORN VOW

OTHERS because you did not keep

That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine ;

Yet always when I look death in the face,

When I clamber to the heights of sleep,

Or when I grow excited with wine,

Suddenly I meet your face.

PRESENCES

THIS night has been so strange that it seemed

As if the hair stood up on my head.

From going-down of the sun I have dreamed

That women laughing, or timid or wild,

In rustle of lace or silken stuff,

Climbed up my creaking stair. They had read

All I had rhymed of that monstrous thing

Returned and yet unrequited love.

They stood in the door and stood between

My great wood lecturn and the fire

Till I could hear their hearts beating :

One is a harlot, and one a child

That never looked upon man with desire,

And one it may be a queen.

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