William Butler Yeats Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• When You Are Old" 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

  Dream, Stars, Book

  "When You Are Old" l. 1 (1893)

• One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Knees, Beloved

• Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

  William Butler Yeats

  Taken, Sleep, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats”, p.57, William Butler Yeats

• When you are old and gray 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, Retirement

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

• When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Faces

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Twenties, Lasts

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

• What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Paris, Bed

  'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

• Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
  Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
  My child sleeps on.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Sleep, Storm

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.101, William Butler Yeats

• now
  I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
  Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
  When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Ephesians

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.143, Hayes Barton Press

• While man can still his body keep
  Wine or love drug him to sleep,
  Waking he thanks the Lord that he
  Has body and its stupidity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

• A speckled cat and a tame hare
  Eat at my hearthstone
  And sleep there;
  And both look up to me alone
  For learning and defence
  As I look up to Providence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Cat, Responsibility

  William Butler Yeats, Glenn Harrington (2002). “William Butler Yeats”, p.40, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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