The Realists

William Butler Yeats

HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?

Next 10 Poems

• William Butler Yeats : The Results Of Thought
• William Butler Yeats : The Rose Of Battle
• William Butler Yeats : The Rose Of Peace
• William Butler Yeats : The Rose Of The World
• William Butler Yeats : The Rose Tree
• William Butler Yeats : The Sad Shepherd
• William Butler Yeats : The Saint And The Hunchback
• William Butler Yeats : The Scholars
• William Butler Yeats : The Second Coming
• William Butler Yeats : The Secret Rose

Previous 10 Poems

• William Butler Yeats : The Ragged Wood
• William Butler Yeats : The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers
• William Butler Yeats : The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves
• William Butler Yeats : The Pity Of Love
• William Butler Yeats : The Pilgrim
• William Butler Yeats : The Phases Of The Moon
• William Butler Yeats : The People
• William Butler Yeats : The Peacock
• William Butler Yeats : The O'rahilly
• William Butler Yeats : The Old Stone Cross