WHEN HELEN LIVED
by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
- E have cried in our despair
- That men desert,
- For some trivial affair
- Or noisy, insolent sport,
- Beauty that we have won
- From bitterest hours;
- Yet we, had we walked within
- Those topless towers
- Where Helen walked with her boy,
- Had given but as the rest
- Of the men and women of Troy,
- A word and a jest.
"When Helen Lived" is
reprinted from Responsibilities. W.B. Yeats. New York:
Macmillan, 1916. |
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