William Butler Yeats Quotes about Moon

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Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.

William Butler Yeats

Nature, Heart, Moon

William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats

Valentines Day, Time, Moon

"The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats

Kissing, Moon, Hands

"The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

William Butler Yeats

Taken, Sleep, Moon

William Butler Yeats (2016). “The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats”, p.57, William Butler Yeats

For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

William Butler Yeats

Life, Wisdom, Moon

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

William Butler Yeats

Nature, Men, Moon

William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

William Butler Yeats

Moon, Men, Sky

1891 'The Sorrow of Love', stanza 1. Collected in The Rose (1893).

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

William Butler Yeats

Mother, Moon, Reality

William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

William Butler Yeats

Running, Stars, Moon

William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation

Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

William Butler Yeats

Dog, Moon, Dolls

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster