WHEN YOU ARE OLD by William Butler Yeats - FULL Poem | GreatestAudioBooks.com
WHEN YOU ARE
OLD by
William Butler Yeats - FULL
Poem | GreatestAudioBooks.com - William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 –
28 January 1939) was an
Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of
20th century literature. A pillar of both the
Irish and
British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish
Senator for two terms.
Yeats was a driving force behind the
Irish Literary Revival and, along with
Lady Gregory,
Edward Martyn, and others, founded the
Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature as the first
Irishman so honoured for what the
Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the
Nobel Prize; such works include
The Tower (1928) and
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). Yeats was a very good friend of
American expatriate poet and
Bollingen Prize laureate
Ezra Pound. Yeats wrote the introduction for
Rabindranath Tagore's
Gitanjali, which was published by the
India Society.
(Summary adapted from
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When
You Are Old
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how
Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars."
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