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Poem by William Butler Yeats


Memory


ONE had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.



William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats's other poems:
  1. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
  2. Running to Paradise
  3. The Realists
  4. On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature
  5. The Mask


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Oliver Goldsmith Memory ("O MEMORY, thou fond deceiver")
  • William Browne Memory ("SO shuts the marigold her leaves")
  • Christina Rossetti Memory ("I nursed it in my bosom while it lived")
  • John Tabb Memory ("I go not to the grave to weep")
  • Jones Very Memory ("Soon the waves so lightly bounding")
  • Edgar Guest Memory ("I stood and watched him playing")
  • George Horton Memory ("Sweet memory, like a pleasing dream")
  • Thomas Aldrich Memory ("My mind lets go a thousand things")
  • Charles Lamb Memory ("For gold could Memory be bought")
  • Anne Lynch Botta Memory ("Maiden of the lofty brow")
  • Theodore Roethke Memory ("IN THE slow world of dream")
  • William Wordsworth Memory ("A pen — to register; a key —")

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