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The Green Helmet and Other Poems
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W. B. Yeats
The Green Helmet and Other Poems
New Edition
LONDON ∙ NEW YORK ∙ TORONTO ∙ SAO PAULO ∙ MOSCOW
PARIS ∙ MADRID ∙ BERLIN ∙ ROME ∙ MEXICO CITY ∙ MUMBAI ∙ SEOUL ∙ DOHA
TOKYO ∙ SYDNEY ∙ CAPE TOWN ∙ AUCKLAND ∙ BEIJING
New Edition
Published by Sovereign Classic
This Edition
First published in 2019
Copyright © 2019 Sovereign Classic
All Rights Reserved.
ISBN: 9781787249998
Contents
HIS DREAM
A WOMAN HOMER SUNG
THAT THE NIGHT COME
THE CONSOLATION
FRIENDS
NO SECOND TROY
RECONCILIATION
KING AND NO KING
THE COLD HEAVEN
PEACE
AGAINST UNWORTHY PRAISE
THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT
A DRINKING SONG
THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME
ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY HAVE JOINED THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS AND THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE
TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND MINE
THE ATTACK ON THE “PLAY BOY”
A LYRIC FROM AN UNPUBLISHED PLAY
UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION
AT THE ABBEY THEATRE
THESE ARE THE CLOUDS
AT GALWAY RACES
A FRIEND’S ILLNESS
ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME
THE YOUNG MAN’S SONG
THE GREEN HELMET
HIS DREAM
I swayed upon the gaudy stern
The butt end of a steering oar,
And everywhere that I could turn
Men ran upon the shore.
And though I would have hushed the crowd
There was no mother’s son but said,
“What is the figure in a shroud
Upon a gaudy bed?”
And fishes bubbling to the brim
Cried out upon that thing beneath,
It had such dignity of limb,
By the sweet name of Death.
Though I’d my finger on my lip,
What could I but take up the song?
And fish and crowd and gaudy ship
Cried out the whole night long,
Crying amid the glittering sea,
Naming it with ecstatic breath,
Because it had such dignity
By the sweet name of Death.
A WOMAN HOMER SUNG
If any man drew near
When I was young,
I thought, “He holds her dear,”
And shook with hate and fear.
But oh, ’twas bitter wrong
If he could pass her by
With an indifferent eye.
Whereon I wrote and wrought,
And now, being gray,
I dream that I have brought
To such a pitch my thought
That coming time can say,
“He shadowed in a glass
What thing her body was.”
For she had fiery blood
When I was young,
And trod so sweetly proud
As ’twere upon a cloud,
A woman Homer sung,
That life and letters seem
But an heroic dream.
THAT THE NIGHT COME
She lived in storm and strife.
Her soul had such desire
For what proud death may bring
That it could not endure
The common good of life,
But lived as ’twere a king
That packed his marriage day
With banneret and pennon,
Trumpet and kettledrum,
And the outrageous cannon,
To bundle Time away
That the night come.
THE CONSOLATION
I had this thought awhile 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 the best I have done