Sorrow of Separation   It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout The world and gives birth to shapes innumetable In the infinite sky. It is this sorrow of separat...

Let it be forgotten，as a flower is forgotten， Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold. Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend，he will make us old. If...

  Sailing to Byzantium   THAT is no country for old men. The young In one another‘s arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations - at their song, The salmon-falls...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life‘s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they be...

THE WHITE BIRDS WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue st...

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea; He wields a mighty scepter O’er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger, Man from his throne has hurled, And...

He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers by William Butler Yeats I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And I dreamed my ...

Blessing on the hand of women! Angels guard its strength and grace, In the palace, cottage, hovel, Oh, no matter where the place; Would that never storms assailed it, Rainbows ev...

The Arrow and the Song   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew the sight, Could not foll...

If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot. And if to miss, were merry, And to mourn, were gay, How very bli...