Poetry Of William Butler Yeats

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1. From which poem are these the last four lines? “Have you made greatness your companion, Although it be for children that you sigh; These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye.” These Are The Clouds Against Unworthy Praise All things Can Tempt Me No Second Troy

2. From which poem is this the first verse? “Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle But Gregory’s wood and one bare hill Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind, Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed; And for an hour I have walked and prayed Because of the great gloom that is on my mind.” Towards Break Of Day A Prayer For My Daughter An Image From A Past Life The Stolen Child

3. . From which poem are these lines? “Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks a-crow.” Vacillation The Black Tower Under Ben Bulben Why Not Should Old Men Be Mad?

4. These lines are taken from which poem? “ Around me the images of thirty years: An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side; Casement upon trial, half hidden by the bars, Guarded; Griffith staring in hysterical pride; Kevin O’Higgins’ countenance that wears A gentle questioning look that cannot hide A soul incapable of remorse or rest; A revolutionary soldier kneeling to be blessed;” Those Images The Municipal Gallery Revisited A Model For The Laureate The Statues

5. . From which poem have these lines been taken? “ A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.” Among School Children All Souls’ Night Sailing To Byzantium Leda and The Swan

6. . This is the first stanza from which poem? “With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red hair Propped upon pillows, rouge on the pallor of her face. She would not have us sad because she is lying there, And when she meets our gaze her eyes are laughter-lit, Her speech a wicked tale that we may vie with her, Matching our broken-hearted wit against her wit, Thinking of saints and of Petronius Arbiter.” Upon A Dying Lady A Deep-Sworn Vow The People The Wild Swans at Coole

7. These are the first few lines from which of Yeats’ works? “I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love;” In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory An Irish Airman Foresees His Death The Cold Heaven On Being Asked For A War Poem

8. These lines come from which of Yeats’ short works? ”Dance there upon the shore; What need do you have to care For wind or water’s roar?” A Memory Of Youth Running To Paradise Two Years Later To A Child Dancing In The Wind

9. Which of Yeats’ political works are these lines from? “ What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone? For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” September 1913 Pardon, Old Fathers Easter 1916 To A Friend

10. From which poem have I taken these lines? “ Come near, come near, come near – Ah, leave me still A little space for the rose-breath to fill! Lest I no more hear common things that crave;” To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time The Rose Of The World Fergus And The Druid The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland