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Crazy Jane and God

William Butler Yeats, William Butler Yeats poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Primal/Tribal/Shamanic poetry by William Butler Yeats
(1865 - 1939) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : Celtic
20th Century

That lover of a night
Came when he would,
Went in the dawning light
Whether I would or no;
Men come, men go;
All things remain in God.

Banners choke the sky;
Men-at-arms tread;
Armoured horses neigh
Where the great battle was
In the narrow pass:
All things remain in God.

Before their eyes a house
That from childhood stood
Uninhabited, ruinous,
Suddenly lit up
From door to top:
All things remain in God.

I had wild Jack for a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.

 

 

 

Themes

  Awakening
  Dawn
  Light
  Lover and Beloved
  Night


Recommended Books


Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: Th Cuchulain Cycle of W. B. Yeats, by Barton R. Friedman
Autobiography of W. B. Yeats, by W. B. Yeats
Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult, by Leon Surette
Blackwell Critical Biographies #12: The Life of W. B. Yeats, by Terence Brown
A Book of Irish Verse, by William Butler Yeats

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