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William Butler Yeats (Уильям Батлер Йейтс)


The Choice


The intellect of man is forced to choose
perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
When all that story's finished, what's the news?
In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. 



William Butler Yeats's other poems:
  1. To Ireland in the Coming Times
  2. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
  3. The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
  4. The Pity of Love
  5. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water


Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • Edith Nesbit (Эдит Несбит) The Choice ("PLAGUE take the dull and dusty town")
  • George Wither (Джордж Уидер) The Choice ("Me so oft my fancy drew")
  • Lucy Montgomery (Люси Монтгомери) The Choice ("Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen")
  • Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Choice ("When skies are blue and days are bright")

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