Celebrate National Poetry Month When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, 1865-1939 (image: New City Library logo; vintage green and purple marbled paper)
Happy #NationalPoetryMonth!
We're kicking off this year with the subject of one of our recent lectures, Irish poet & Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats.
This is "When You Are Old," which can be found in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS. (On Hoopla: buff.ly/za3V5qb )
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