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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should the world be luckier if this house Last Line: Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Upon A Threatened House Subject(s): Ireland – Rebellions | |||
How should the world be luckier if this house, Where passion and precision have been one Time out of mind, became too ruinous To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun? And the sweet laughing eagle thoughts that grow Where wings have memory of wings, and all That comes of the best knit to the best? Although Mean roof-trees were the sturdier for its fall, How should their luck run high enough to reach The gifts that govern men, and after these To gradual Time's last gift, a written speech Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease? | 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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