William Butler Yeats Quotes About Silver

Quotes about: Silver

• And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Valentines Day, Time, Moon

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

• Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Kissing, Moon, Hands

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

• Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Dark, Night

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

• I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

  William Butler Yeats

  Byzantium, Bird, Tree

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.503

• Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

  William Butler Yeats

  Rain, Eye, Blue

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.95, Library of Alexandria

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