CELT document E910001-023

A Memory of Youth

William Butler Yeats

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     p.68

    A Memory of Youth

  1. The moments passed as at a play,
    I had the wisdom love brings forth;
    I had my share of mother wit
    And yet for all that I could say,
    And though I had her praise for it,
    A cloud blown from the cut-throat north
    Suddenly hid love's moon away.
  2. Believing every word I said
    I praised her body and her mind
    Till pride had made her eyes grow bright,
    And pleasure made her cheeks grow red,
    And vanity her footfall light,
    Yet we, for all that praise, could find
    Nothing but darkness overhead.
  3.  p.69
  4. We sat as silent as a stone,
    We knew, though she'd not said a word,
    That even the best of love must die,
    And had been savagely undone
    Were it not that love upon the cry
    Of a most ridiculous little bird
    Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon.

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Title (uniform): A Memory of Youth

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by: Beatrix Färber and Juliette Maffet

Funded by: School of History, University College, Cork

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1. First draft.

Extent: 548 words

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Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork

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Date: 2012

Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.

CELT document ID: E910001-023

Availability: The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching.

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Bibliography

  • A bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html

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Yeats, William Butler (1916). ‘A Memory of Youth’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems‍. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan company, pp. 68–69.

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Creation: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). before 1916

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  • The poem is in English. (en)

Keywords: literary; poetry; W. B. Yeats; 20c

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  1. 2012-02-10: File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
  2. 2012-02-01: Header created. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
  3. 2012-01-23: First proofing. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
  4. 2012-01-18: Text captured by scanning. (file capture Juliette Maffet)

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