Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats, born June 13, 1865.
His poems possess a lyricism and emotional intensity that is nonpareil and an insight into the modern world that often feels prophetic.
A thread of excerpts from my favorite W.B. Yeats poems: 🧵👇
10. When You Are Old, by W.B. Yeats (1893)
9. No Second Troy, by W.B. Yeats (1916)
8. from The Stolen Child, by W.B. Yeats (1899)
7. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, by W.B. Yeats (1890)
6. Never Give All the Heart, by W.B. Yeats
5. from Easter, 1916, by W.B. Yeats (1916)
4. from Sailing to Byzantium, by W.B. Yeats (1927)
3. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by W.B. Yeats (1899)
2. An Irish Airman foresees his Death, by W.B. Yeats (1919)
1. The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats (1920)
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