William Butler Yeats

The light of evening,
Lissadell,
Great windows open to the south,
Two girls in silk kimonos,

EN have I last looked
The round green eyes and the long wavering
Of the dark leopards of the moon
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.

When my arms wrap you round I
My heart upon the
That has long faded from the world;
The jewelled crowns that kings have

That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,
Quiet the dog, tether the
To a distant post;

I have met them at close of
Coming with vivid
From counter or desk among
Eighteenth-century houses

A
EN blow:  the great wings beating
Above the staggering girl, her thighs
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,

I
ED, "I am too young,"And then, "I am old enough";
Wherefore I threw a
To find out if I might love

UR eyes that once were never weary of
Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids,
Because our love is waning
"And then She:"Although our love is waning, let us

I
DE my song a
Covered with
Out of old

WN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-whitefeet
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would notagree

ER shall a young man,
Thrown into
By those great
Ramparts at your ear,