All Things Can Tempt Me WB Yeats Irish Poetry Famous Sad Poem Short Poems about Life Beautiful
All Things Can Tempt Me by William Butler Yeats (18651939) ALL things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman s face, or worse The seeming needs of my fooldriven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil. When I was young, I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet Sing it with such airs That one believed he had a sword upstairs; Yet would be now, could I but have my wish, Colder and dumber and d
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