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William Butler Yeats

A STORM BEATEN old watch-tower,
A blind hermit rings the hour.
All-destroying sword-blade still
Carried by the wandering fool.
Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
Beauty and fool together laid.

Next 10 Poems

• William Butler Yeats : That The Night Come
• William Butler Yeats : The Apparitions
• William Butler Yeats : The Arrow
• William Butler Yeats : The Ballad Of Father Gilliagan
• William Butler Yeats : The Ballad Of Father Gilligan
• William Butler Yeats : The Ballad Of Father O'hart
• William Butler Yeats : The Ballad Of Moll Magee
• William Butler Yeats : The Ballad Of The Foxhunter
• William Butler Yeats : The Balloon Of The Mind
• William Butler Yeats : The Black Tower

Previous 10 Poems

• William Butler Yeats : Swift's Epitaph
• William Butler Yeats : Sweet Dancer
• William Butler Yeats : Supernatural Songs
• William Butler Yeats : Stream And Sun At Glendalough
• William Butler Yeats : Statistics
• William Butler Yeats : Spilt Milk
• William Butler Yeats : Solomon To Sheba
• William Butler Yeats : Solomon And The Witch
• William Butler Yeats : Slim Adolescence That A Nymph Has Stripped,
• William Butler Yeats : Sixteen Dead Men