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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I admit the briar Last Line: If empty night replies? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. | |||
I ADMIT the briar Entangled in my hair Did not injure me; My blenching and trembling, Nothing but dissembling, Nothing but coquetry. I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones. Brightness that I pull back From the Zodiac, Why those questioning eyes That are fixed upon me? What can they do but shun me If empty night replies? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SOLOMON TO SHEBA by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE FISH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE GREY ROCK by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE HAWK by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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