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Hands Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We…
- Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we…
- Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?
- I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing…
- Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than…
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for…
- Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and…
- I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
- Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden…
- Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love…
- We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
- but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to…
- Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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