He mourns for the Change that has come (by William Butler Yeats)
Yeats [by George Charles Beresford, 1911]
He mourns for the Change that has come upon Him
and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World
by William Butler Yeats
from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns,
For somebody hid hatred and hope and desire and fear
Under my feet that they follow you night and day.
A man with a hazel wand came without sound;
He changed me suddenly; I was looking another way;
And now my calling is but the calling of a hound;
And Time and Birth and Change are hurrying by.
I would that the Boar without bristles had come from the West
And had rooted the sun and moon and stars out of the sky
And lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest.
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Posted by Jesus Crisis at 3/24/2011 8:17 AM 
Categories: British, Poetry, Irish, Yeats (William Butler), 1800s
Tags: 1899 Irish Literature Irish Poetry British Poetry British Literature The Wind Among the Reeds WB Yeats William Butler Yeats
Categories: British, Poetry, Irish, Yeats (William Butler), 1800s
Tags: 1899 Irish Literature Irish Poetry British Poetry British Literature The Wind Among the Reeds WB Yeats William Butler Yeats
"For somebody hid hatred and hope and desire and fear
Under my feet that they follow you night and day"
(This couldn't have been said any better
for mourning lost love and changes)
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