Though dated by Yeats as 1893, The Rose as a collection was not introduced until 1895.
`Sero te amavi, Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova! Sero te amavi' - S. Augustine
TO LIONEL JOHNSON
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- WHILE I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times16 lines, 1 comment - ALL the heavy days are over;
Leave the body's coloured pride16 lines, 3 comments - When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,12 lines, 5 comments - I DREAMED that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand,12 lines, 4 comments - THE brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,12 lines, 1 comment - HE stood among a crowd at Dromahair;
His heart hung all upon a silken dress,48 lines, 1 comment - WHO will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's woven shade,12 lines, 11 comments - The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day48 lines, 3 comments - Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks,
And you have changed and flowed from shape to45 lines, 1 comment - WHO dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,15 lines, 1 comment - I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:11 lines, 17 comments - Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:24 lines - ALTHOUGH I shelter from the rain
Under a broken tree,18 lines, 6 comments - I WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the
foam of the sea!24 lines, 1 comment - ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled35 lines - There was a green branch hung with many a bell
When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;24 lines
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