...come; You had enough of sorrow before death — Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. WHEN HELEN LIVED We have cried in our despair That men desert, For...Of the men and women of Troy, A word and' a jest. "Time to put off the world and go somewhere And find my health again in the sea air," Beggar to beggar...

...sorrow before death Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. September 2<)th, 1914. WHEN HELEN LIVED We have cried in our despair That men desert, For...rest Of the men and women of Troy, A word and a jest. RUNNING TO PARADISE As I came over Windy Gap They threw a halfpenny into my cap, For I am running to...

...sorrow before death — Away, away ! You are safer in the tomb. September 29, 1913. WHEN HELEN LIVED WE have cried in our despair That men desert, For...rest Of the men and women of Troy, A word and a jest. ON THOSE THAT HATED " THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD," 1907 ONCE, when midnight smote the air, Eunuchs...

...of almost two-thirds of the work of the ten years from 1889 to 1899. For example, When Helen Lived: We have cried in our despair That men desert, For...that we have won From bitterest hours; Yet we, had we talked within Those topless towers Where Helen walked with her boy, Had piven but as the rest Of the...

...affair Or noisy insolent sport, Beauty that we have won From bitterest hours ; Yet we, had we talked within Those topless towers Where Helen walked with...rest Of the men and women of Troy, A word and a jest — and No Second Troy: Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would...

...of verses they read in tribute. Yeats offered "When Helen Lived," a poem he had not yet published. We have cried in our despair That men desert, For...rest Of the men and women of Troy A word and a jest. The trouble with The Playboy lingered in Yeats's mind as he wrote this poem: in "The Death of Synge"...

...beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? WB YEATS When Helen Lived We have cried in our despair That men desert, For...rest Of the men and women of Troy, A word and a jest. WB YEATS Index of Poem Titles A ( + ), 132 Anecdote of the Jar, 41 anyone lived in a pretty how town,...

...attention-span, as it were) in others, have the same failing. For despite our pretensions, we too, , . . had we walked within Those topless towers Where Helen...rest Of the men and women of Troy, A word and a jest. The shift here to introspection and self-reproach serves as a mild corrective to the sometimes ad hominem,...

...come; You had enough of sorrow before death Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. When Helen Lived We have cried in our despair That men desert, For some trivial aSair Or noisy, insolent sport, Beauty that we have won From bitterest hours; Yet we, had we walked...

...enough of sorrow before death Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. September 29, 1913 When Helen lived We have cried in our despair That men desert, For...Helen walked with her boy, Had given but as the rest 10 Of the men and women of Troy, A word and a jest. 1913 ^ 9 R 29 B — Beggar to Beggar cried 'Time...