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I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Sadness, Dumb
'A Song'

O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

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Heart, Men, Tears
William Butler Yeats (1997). “"Easter, 1916" and Other Poems”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Example
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

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Heart, Animal, Sick
"Sailing to Byzantium" l. 21 (1928)

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

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Heart, Folly, Turns
William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

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War, Heart, Law
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Joy, Fascination
"The Fascination of What's Difficult" l. 1 (1910)

Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

William Butler Yeats
Women, Heart, Sides
William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.27, Hayes Barton Press

If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.

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Powerful, Heart, Destiny
William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

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Mother, Heart, Womb
'Remorse for Intemperate Speech'

O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

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Heart, Poetry, Sake
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Battle, Littles
William Butler Yeats (1908). “Ideas of good and evil”

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

William Butler Yeats
Dog, Heart, Eye
William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out. It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Mad, Shade
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

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Sad, Lonely, Heart
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.542, Simon and Schuster

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

William Butler Yeats
Love, Girl, Heart
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

William Butler Yeats
Faith, Christian, Heart
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

William Butler Yeats
Dream, Truth, Heart
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

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Song, Heart, Land
The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 36

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

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Death, Heart, Speech
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

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Goodbye, Children, Heart
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.101, Penguin

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

William Butler Yeats
Children, Heart, Broken
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Blood, Wind
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.

William Butler Yeats
Children, Heart, Eye
William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Night, Men
William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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