William Butler Yeats

En periode av mitt liv hørte jeg veldig mye på the Cranberries ( et band jeg alltid finner veien tilbake til). Og på den andre cd'n deres " no need to argue" er det en sang som heter "Yeats grave" som er inspirert av, ja, nettopp William Butler Yeats dikt, nærmere bestemt disse to(som jeg syns er ganske fine)...


THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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 gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.


NO SECOND TROY

Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this.
Being high and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?