I”m back to my old self again, but I’m enjoying posting all these wonderful Yeats’ poems! I hope you won’t mind reading a few more…
Yeats was an unreconstructed romantic, sensitive and emotional. His love life is a captivating story all its own.
This poem is about unrequited love, ever the stuff of poetry.
Never Give All The Heart
Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
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I am enjoying this series as we are not as exposed to Yeats as I would have liked…
I did an independent study on Yeats when I was at University. It was one of the most meaningful periods of my life!
I’m so glad you are enjoying the series!!
It is good to hear that you are back to your old self and I certainly do not mind at all reading Yeats’. This is a beautiful poem and that rose. Oh, my. It reminds me of a David Austin rose, Pat Austin, that I had growing in our old house.
Thanks! It is a David Austin rose, but I can’t recall which one. Maybe Pat Austin?
xo Deb
Both are so Beautiful
Thanks for sharing
Glad you are well
Eunice
Thank you, dear!!
xo Deb
xo
Eunice
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