• Cover Image

The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

... Till the yellow eye has grown mild, For larder and spit are bare, The old cook enraged, The scullion gone wild.’ ‘I will not be clapped in a hood, No... ...rtes. When all the dough has been so kneaded up That it can take what form cook Nature fancies, The first thin crescent is wheeled round once more. Ahe... ...e that’s set On a storm bitten green. I scrub its floors and make my bed, I cook and change my plate, The post and garden boy alone Have keys to my old... ...ke when the winds roar, Old bones upon the mountain shake. The tower’s old cook that must climb and clamber Catching small birds in the dew of the mor... ...ails. Came Blanid, Mac Nessa, tall Fergus who feastward of old time slunk, Cook Barach, the traitor; and warward, the spittle on his beard never dry, ... ...ngeless thing, Like charmed apples made of chrysoprase, Or chrysoberyl, or beryl, or chrysolite; And there, in juggleries of sight and sense, Become o...

Read More