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" 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 sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years.... "
The Atlantic Monthly - Page 108
1904
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In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age

William Butler Yeats - Ireland - 1903 - 102 pages
...quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.' We sat grown quiet at the name of love, We saw the...of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell I had a thought for no one's but your ears ; That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you...
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Gaodhal, Volume 22

Ireland - 1903 - 410 pages
...quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough." We sat grown quiet at the name of love. We saw the...And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon — moon worn as if it had been a shell. Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the starn...
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The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats ...: Lyrical poems

William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1906 - 366 pages
...quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough." We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the...fell About 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 strove To love you...
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The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats ...: Lyrical poems

William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1906 - 364 pages
...quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough." We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the...fell About the stars and broke in days and years. To love you in the old highway of love; That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown As weary hearted...
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The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats: Lyrical poems

William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1906 - 362 pages
...quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough." We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the...fell About 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 strove To love you...
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Poems, 1899-1905

William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1906 - 302 pages
...with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books ; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough." We sat grown quiet at the name of love ; We saw the...daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky ! x<" - • A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About...
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Poems, Second Series

William Butler Yeats - Ireland - 1909 - 184 pages
...with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books ; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.' We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the...fell About 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 strove To love you...
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Poems

W. J. Cameron - 1909 - 182 pages
...quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.' We sat grown quiet at the name of love ; We saw the...fell About 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 strove To love you...
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Selected Poems

William Butler Yeats - English drama - 1921 - 328 pages
...quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough." We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the...fell About 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 strove To love you...
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Later Poems

William Butler Yeats - Ireland - 1922 - 390 pages
...with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books ; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough." We sat grown quiet at the name of love ; We saw the...fell About 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 strove To love you...
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