NO SECOND TROY
by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
- HY should I blame her that she
filled my days
- With misery, or that she would of late
- Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
- Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
- Had they but courage equal to desire?
- What could have made her peaceful with a mind
- That nobleness made simple as a fire,
- With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
- That is not natural in an age like this,
- Being high and solitary and most stern?
- Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
- Was there another Troy for her to burn?
"No Second Troy" is reprinted
from The Green Helmet and Other Poems. W.B. Yeats. Dundrum:
Cuala Press, 1910. |
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