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Three Poems of Yeats

Song Cycle by Arthur Victor Berger (b. 1912)

?. Girl's song  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
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?

Text Authorship:

  • by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Girl's song"

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First published in New Republic, October 1930

Researcher 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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1 Grill: "shown or known"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 194
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