A DEEP-SWORN VOW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSPoet AnalysisPoet's Biography
First Line: Others because you did not keep Last Line: Suddenly I meet your face. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Promises
Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
