 | William Butler Yeats - Fine books - 1910 - 72 pages
...and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. ^ THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all...flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth. TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND OF MINE You say as I have... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - English literature - 1912 - 108 pages
...old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME Though leaves are many, the root is one ; Through...flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth. 23 JI ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY HAVE JOINED THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Ireland - 1922 - 390 pages
...old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME THOUGH leaves are many, the root is one ; Through...flowers in the sun ; Now I may wither into the truth. ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY HAVE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE... | |
 | American literature - 1911 - 762 pages
...but I have not the brains of my brother Edinburgh." TWO POEMS BY WILLIAM BUTLHR YHATS YOUTH AND AGE THOUGH leaves are many, the root is one: Through all...flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth. TO A CERTAIN COUNTRY HOUSE IN TIME OF CHANGE HOW should the world be luckier if this house Where passion... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - Family & Relationships - 1995 - 396 pages
...doing so. Yeats made my essential points in his poem "The Coming of Wisdom with Time," which ends, "Through all the lying days of my youth / I swayed...flowers in the sun; / Now I may wither into the truth." Yeats's late poetry is candid, unadorned, bawdy, strident, violent in diction, and often celebratory... | |
 | R. Supheert - Kind of appreciation - 1995 - 344 pages
..."The Fiddler of Dooney", "Hanraban Reproves the Curlew" and "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven". Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my...leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into truth. A master at publishing and re-publishing his work, Yeats also constantly revised older texts... | |
 | William Pratt - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...reminiscent of an earlier poem, "The Coming of Wisdom with Time," which appeared in The Green Helmet: Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth 6. William Butler Yeats, A Vision, 268. I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither... | |
 | Alexander Norman Jeffares - Ireland - 1997 - 504 pages
...if it is time that has brought this maturity, there are reasons why this maturity should be so sour. Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all...flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth runs a quatrain headed 'The Coming of Wisdom with Time'. Actuality has conquered : The holy centaurs... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...12882 'A Coat' For there's more enterprise In walking naked. 12883 'The Coming of Wisdom with Time' y lies in the organization of the non-obvlous. SPENSER...messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thri 12884 Of our conflicts with others we make rbetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 556 pages
...lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. [1910] [1912] The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all...flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth. [1910*] [1912] On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of... | |
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THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME THOUGH leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth. 
