The collected poems of W.B. Yeats / W.B. Yeats
| dc.contributor | UK |
| dc.contributor.author | Yeats, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:59:49Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:59:49Z |
| dc.date.created | 1903 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0153 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0153 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0153 |
| dc.description.abstract | Catalogued on RLIN |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 437 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Legacy Collection Digital Museum |
| dc.relation.isreplacedby | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3019 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Irish poetry -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Poems |
| dc.title | The collected poems of W.B. Yeats / W.B. Yeats |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 451938 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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CROSS WAYS
THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD
THE woods of Arcady are dead,
And over is their antique joy;
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Grey Truth is now her painted toy;
Yet still she turns her restless head:
But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.
Where are now the warring kings,
Word be-mockers?--By the Rood,
Where are now the watring kings?
An idle word is now their glory,
By the stammering schoolboy said,
Reading some entangled story:
The kings of the old time are dead;
The wandering earth herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Troubling the endless reverie.
Then nowise worship dusty deeds,
Nor seek, for this is also sooth,
To hunger fiercely after truth,
Lest all thy toiling only breeds
New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth
Saving in thine own heart. Seek, then,
No learning from the starry men,
Who follow wi . . .
