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Poem by William Butler Yeats


Youth and Age


MUCH did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest. 



William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats's other poems:
  1. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
  2. The Rose of Peace
  3. The Rose of Battle
  4. The Ballad of Father Gilligan
  5. The Coming of Wisdom with Time


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • George Byron Youth and Age ("There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away")
  • Samuel Coleridge Youth and Age ("Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying")
  • Arthur Clough Youth and Age ("DANCE on, dance on, we see, we see")

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