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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. These Are the Clouds
  2. The Mask
  3. The Wild Swans at Coole
  4. Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
  5. A Friend's Illness


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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