The Tower
I must recall a man that neither love
But they mistook the brightness of the moon
And had but broken knees for hire
On their hollow top,
And that if memory recur, the suns
And further add to that
All those things whereof
And there sing his last song.
plunge, lured by a softening eye,
Come with loud cry and panting breast
To young upstanding men
Does the imagination dwell the most
O may the moon and sunlight seem
Gifted with so fine an ear;
Or a birds sleepy cry
Whod lived somewhere upon that rocky place,
II
Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend
Whether in public or in secret rage
When he finished his dogs day:
III
A pack of hounds and not a pack of cards,
Or that of the sudden shower
Or shod in iron, climbed the narrow stairs,
And had the greater joy in praising her,
For I need all his mighty memories.
I choose upstanding men
Hanrahan rose in frenzy there
Cowardice, some silly over-subtle thought
Nor to the tyrants that spat,
Aye, sun and moon and star, all,
Images and memories
Or that of the hour
Through God-forsaken meadows; Mrs. French,
Testy delirium
That nothing strange; the tread.99csw.comragedy began
That under bursting dawn
As to a dogs tail?
Theres not a neighbour left to say
Man makes a superhuman,
For if I triumph I must make men mad.
As at the loophole there
He stumbled, tumbled, fumbled to and fro
And followed up those baying creatures towards -
Poets imaginings
As I would question all, come all who can;
Reckoned up every unforeknown, unseeing
Decrepit age that has been tied to me
From ruin or from ancient trees,
In a learned school
When the swan must fix his eye
And praised the colour of her face,
They may drop a fly;
Remembering that, if walked she there,
To break upon a sleepers rest
Can be content with argument and deal
Being of that metal made
Or dull decrepitude,
I thought it all out twenty years ago:
Slow decay of blood,
One inextricable beam,
Rose from the table and declared it right
With Homer that was a blind man,
I leave both faith and pride
And the proud stones of Greece,
Music had driven their wits astray -
Before that ruin came, for centuries,
Or that of the fabulous horn,
Or by a touch or a sigh,
A figure that has grown so fabulo九_九_藏_書us
So great a glory did the song confer.
That climb the streams until
Never had I more
The Tower
As I do now against old age?
Drop their cast at the side
Whose images, in the Great Memory stored,
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That, being dead, we rise,
And drove him drunk or sober through the dawn
When the headlong light is loose,
Or else by toasting her a score of times,
For I would ask a question of them all.
Till the wreck of body,
For it is certain that you have
When they have mounted up,
Memories of the words of women,
Tree, like a sooty finger, starts from the earth;
That more expected the impossible -
Some few remembered still when I was young
From a great labyrinth out of pride,
Out of his bitter soul,
The pride of people that were
Or the humbler worm, I climbed Ben Bulbens back
And certain men, being maddened by those rhymes,
Dream and so create
When the horizon fades;
I pace upon the battlements and stare
With learned Italian things
And when that ancient ruffians turn was on
Who trod upon these rocks or passed this door,
And so warm her wild nest.
Mahttps://read•99csw.comde lock, stock and barrel
Bound neither to Cause nor to State.
Death and life were not
A sort of battered kettle at the heel.
When all streams are dry,
A peasant girl commended by a Song,
They shall inherit my pride,
The death of friends, or death
For the prosaic light of day -
That made a catch in the breath - .
Or anything called conscience once;
The daws chatter and scream,
Upon a woman won or woman lost?
Nor music nor an enemys clipped ear
Lit up the dark mahogany and the wine.
And certain men-at-arms there were
Now shall I make my soul,
I mock plotinus thought
And cry in platos teeth,
He so bewitched the cards under his thumb
It seems that I must bid the Muse go pack,
I
Rough men-at-arms, cross-gartered to the knees
Ran and with the garden shears
When mocking Muses chose the country wench.
And bring beautys blind rambling celebrant;
O towards I have forgotten what - enough!
If on the lost, admit you turned aside
To test their fancy by their sight;
Yet, now I have considered it, I find
The red man the juggler sent
On the foundations of a house, or where
And had the livelong read.99csw.comsummer day to spend.
And that he changed into a hare.
Come old, necessitous. half-mounted man;
Under eclipse and the day blotted out.
It is time that I wrote my will;
All that you have discovered in the grave,
An ancient bankrupt master of this house.
Good fellows shuffled cards in an old bawn;
Among the deepening shades.
That gave, though free to refuse -
Did all old men and women, rich and poor,
WHAT shall I do with this absurdity -
In abstract things; or be derided by
Old lecher with a love on every wind,
The man drowned in a bogs mire,
Till it was broken by
Caught by an old mans juggleries
No, not in boyhood when with rod and fly,
And drop twigs layer upon layer.
Of dripping stone; I declare
And brought them in a little covered dish.
Last reach of glittering stream
That are impatient to be gone;
Or what worse evil come -
And I myself created Hanrahan
When every silver candlestick or sconce
I have prepared my peace
This sedentary trade.
And one was drowned in the great bog of Cloone.
Beyond that ridge lived Mrs. French, and once
Could, he was so harried, cheer;
That most respected ladys read•99csw•comevery wish,
Climbing the mountain-side,
And I declare my faith:
Strange, but the man who made the song was blind;
That all but the one card became
Upon a fading gleam,
Bring up out of that deep considering mind
The people of Burke and of Grattan
Translunar paradise.
Float out upon a long
Mirror-resembling dream.
From somewhere in the neighbouring cottages.
Under the days declining beam, and call
And Helen has all living hearts betrayed.
Compelling it to study
Until imagination, ear and eye,
Of every brilliant eye
Till man made up the whole,
Seem but the clouds of the sky
A serving-man, that could divine
And horrible splendour of desire;
Go therefore; but leave Hanrahan,
While their great wooden dice beat on the board.
The fountain leap, and at dawn
Clipped an insolent farmers ears
And memories of love,
O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature,
pride, like that of the morn,
And send imagination forth
But I have found an answer in those eyes
Into the labyrinth of anothers being;
The mother bird will rest
Farmers jostled at the fair
Excited, passionate, fantastical
Neither to slaves that were spat on,