“The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one, Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.” WisdomTruthLyingTimeDyingYouthLivingOld Age Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“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.” LovePoetryTimeBeautySunMoonEternity Author:W.B. Yeats
“Is this my dream, or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But I grow old among dreams, A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams.” PoetryTimeDreamsAgeingLost Opportunities Book:The Wild Swans at Coole Source: The Wild Swans at Coole
“But he calls down a blessing on the blossom of the may, Because it comes in beauty, and in beauty blows away.” LifeMayDeathPoetryTimeSongBeautyBlessingBlossomIrish Book:Stories of Red Hanrahan Source: Stories of Red Hanrahan
“It was at the moment of the fall of day when every man may pass as handsome and every woman as comely.” MenTimeWomenBeauty Book:Stories of Red Hanrahan Source: Stories of Red Hanrahan
“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time; Arise and bid me strike a match And strike another till time catch; (In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz)” TimeBeauty Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats