Poetry Tuesday!: "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats

Here's "The Song of Wandering Aengus" (1897) by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo
10. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger
11. "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman
12. "Узник" ("Uznik", "The Prisoner" or "The Captive") by Aleksandr Pushkin
13. "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Comments

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

This Conspiracy
has two poets but just one
libertarian

[BrotherMovesOn]

Yeats rules it is true
Silver Apples of the moon
What a great poet

[bernard11]

Nice selection nicely done, Sasha.

[Ridgeway]

I would commend to you various German romantics, especially Novalis, Eichendorff and especially Ho(e)lderlin.

[MatthewSlyfield]

If 2020 was a math word-problem: If you’re going down a river at 2 MPH and your canoe loses a wheel, how much pancake mix would you need to re-shingle your roof?

[Ridgeway]

cuthchawnailz!!!

[Paladin_44]

Cast a cold eye
On Life, On Death.
Horseman. pass by

[LegoAthos]

Clancy is still my favorite, but Aengus is a very close second.

[adopte]

Dr.jean bernard Fourtillan put in "hospital" ...for showing Covid -19 patent taken in 2015 by institut Pasteur.