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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 Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
  2. To Ireland in the Coming Times
  3. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
  4. The Pity of Love
  5. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

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

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