William Butler Yeats - Beautiful Lofty Things

William Butler Yeats - Beautiful Lofty Things

BEAUTIFUL lofty things: O'Leary's noble head; br My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd: br 'This Land of Saints,' and then as the applause died out, br 'Of plaster Saints'; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back. br Standish O'Grady supporting himself between the tables br Speaking to a drunken audience high nonsensical words; br Augusta Gregory seated at her great ormolu table, br Her eightieth winter approaching: 'Yesterday he threatened my life. br I told him that nightly from six to seven I sat at this table, br The blinds drawn up'; Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train, br Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head: br All the Olympians; a thing never known again.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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