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Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 3 months ago
I had this thought a while ago,
‘My darling cannot understand
What I have done, or what would do
In this blind bitter land.’And I grew weary of the sun
Until my thoughts cleared up again,
Remembering that […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
She is foremost of those that I would hear praised.
I have gone about the house, gone up and down
As a man does who has published a new book,
Or a young girl dressed out in her new gown,
And though I have […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
He. Never until this night have I been stirred.
The elaborate starlight throws a reflection
On the dark stream,
Till all the eddies gleam;
And thereupon there comes that scream
From terrified, invisible beast […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
I turn round
Like a dumb beast in a show.
Neither know what I am
Nor where I go,
My language beaten
Into one name;
I am in love
And that is my shame.
What hurts the soul
My soul adores,
No better than a […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
But Gregory’s wood and one bare hill
Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling w […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
I. First Love
Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty’s murderous brood,
She walked awhile and blushed awhile
And on my pathway stood
Until I thought her body bore
A heart of flesh and […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
I
I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
The children learn to cipher and to sing,
To study reading-books and history,
To cut and sew, be neat in […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
May God be praised for woman
That gives up all her mind,
A man may find in no man
A friendship of her kind
That covers all he has brought
As with her flesh and bone,
Nor quarrels with a thought
Because it […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
There is grey in your hair.
Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath
When you are passing;
But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing
Because it was your prayer
Recovered him upon the bed of […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
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 […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
There is a queen in China, or maybe it’s in Spain,
And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard
Of her unblemished lineaments, a whiteness with no stain,
That she might be that sprightly girl trodden by […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
One that is ever kind said yesterday:
‘Your well-belovèd’s hair has threads of grey,
And little shadows come about her eyes;
Time can but make it easier to be wise
Though now it seems impossible, and so […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a b […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
We sat together at one summer’s end,
That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,
And you and I, and talked of poetry.
I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thoug […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Yeats’ relationship with maud
With the beginning of their spiritual union, Yeats and Gonne shared more of the mystical side of themselves than ever before. They discussed dreams, projections of personality, and […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
Among my leaves in times out of mind:
I […] -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away -
Nicole Callahan posted a new page, on the site Maud Gonne in Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams,
White woman that passion has worn
As the tide wears the dove-grey sands,
And with heart more old than the horn
That is brimmed from the pale […] - Load More