I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who. Another came in sight That on a stick relied To hold himself upright; I sat and cried. And that was all my song - When everything is told, Saw I an old man young Or young man old?
Three Poems of Yeats
Song Cycle by Arthur Victor Berger (b. 1912)
?. Girl's song  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Girl's song"
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First published in New Republic, October 1930Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
?. His confidence  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Undying love to buy I wrote upon The corners of this eye All wrongs done. What payment were enough For undying love? I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "His confidence", appears in The Winding Stair, first published 1929
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]?. Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
"Love is all Unsatisfied That cannot take the whole Body and soul"; And that is what Jane said. "Take the sour If you take me I can scoff and lour And scold for an hour." "That's certainly the case," said he. "Naked I lay, The grass my bed; Naked and hidden away, That black day"; And that is what Jane said. "What can be shown? What true love be? All could be [known or shown]1 If Time were but gone." "That's certainly the case," said he.
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", appears in Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, first published 1932
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Grill: "shown or known"
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 194