William Butler Yeats Quotes about Sleep

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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Knees, Beloved

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

When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

William Butler Yeats

Wine, Sleep, Faces

William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Twenties, Lasts

"The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Paris, Bed

'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

William Butler Yeats

Children, Sleep, Storm

William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.101, William Butler Yeats

now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

William Butler Yeats

Wine, Sleep, Ephesians

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.143, Hayes Barton Press

While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.

William Butler Yeats

Wine, Sleep, Men

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence.

William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Cat, Responsibility

William Butler Yeats, Glenn Harrington (2002). “William Butler Yeats”, p.40, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.