Sickness brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had burned the whole
World, as it were a coal,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?

(C) William Butler Yeats
01/01/2000


Best Poems of William Butler Yeats

• The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes
• The Wheel
• A Man Young And Old: I. First Love
• The Pilgrim
• A Bronze Head
• Maid Quiet
• A Prayer For My Son
• A Faery Song
• Three Things
• Ego Dominus Tuus
• The Four Ages Of Man
• Oil And Blood
• A Prayer For Old Age
• Young Mans Song
• Men Improve With The Years
• The Collar-bone Of A Hare
• A Dialogue Of Self And Soul
• A Crazed Girl
• Aedh Pleads With The Elemental Powers