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Poem by William Butler Yeats


The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart


ALL things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water, re-made, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. 



William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats's other poems:
  1. For Anne Gregory
  2. The Rose of the World
  3. The Rose of Battle
  4. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
  5. The Rose of Peace


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