In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age is a collection of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in the early 20th century. The work draws heavily from Irish mythology, featuring legendary figures like Queen Maeve and Cuchullain, and explores themes of love, loss, and the supernatural. Yeats's rich imagery and deep connection to Irish folklore create a narrative tapestry that reflects the complexities of human emotions against the backdrop of a mythic Ireland.
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“Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy, kind delight.O Never give the heart outright,For they, for all smooth lips can say,Have given their hearts up to the play.And who could play it well enoughIf deaf and dumb and blind with love?He that made this knows all the cost,For he gave all his heart and lost.””
— W. B. Yeats
“We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die,And in the trembling blue-green of the skyA moon, worn as if it had been a shellWashed by time's waters as they rose and fellAbout the stars and broke in days and years.I had a thought for no one's but your ears:That you were beautiful, and that I stroveTo love you in the old high way of love;That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grownAs weary-hearted as that hollow moon””
— W. B. Yeats
“The Arrow"I THOUGHT of your beauty, and this arrow,Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.There's no man may look upon her, no man,As when newly grown to be a woman,Tall and noble but with face and bosomDelicate in colour as apple blossom.This beauty's kinder, yet for a reasonI could weep that the old is out of season.””
— W. B. Yeats
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