I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear la… - William Butler Yeats

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I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats · September 9, 1996 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

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Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY

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Down the mountain walls
From where pan’s cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.

Never had I more
Excited, passionate, fantastical
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That more expected the impossible.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;

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