1. Home »
  2. Irish Poets »
  3. William Butler Yeats

A Friend's Illness

by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Sickness brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had burned the whole
World, as it were a coal,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?




Quotes of the Day

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
• Robert Orben


Poems of the Day
  • Charles Bernstein
    Why I Am Not a Buddhist
    by Charles Bernstein
    Reality cons me as it spur(n)s me. This is the road to eternal Consanguinity, eloping with Hope and leaving me to pick Up the proverbial bag. But that's the argument for.