The Living Beauty
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I BADE, because the wick and oil are spent
And frozen are the channels of the blood,
My discontented heart to draw content
From beauty that is cast out of a mould
In bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears,
Appears, but when wc have gone is gone again,
Being more indifferent to our solitude
Than 'twere an apparition. O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its rribute of wild tears.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 81 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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