I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,And live alone in the bee-loud glade.And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;There midnight’s all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,And evening full of the linnet’s wings.I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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W. B. Yeats quotes & passages
1 passage by W. B. Yeats, from The Lake Isle of Innisfree. W. B. Yeats died in 1939, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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Irish poet and dramatist (1865–1939), co-founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
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