In the Seven Woods

In the Seven Woods

"In the Seven Woods" is a volume of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1903.

This is the first book of Yeats' "middle period," in which he eschewed his previous Romantic ideals and preference for pre-Raphaelite imagery, in favor of a more spare style and an anti-romantic poetic stance similar to that of Walter Savage Landor. The poem "Adam's Curse," however, continues to reflect the old ideals. This is also the most popular and frequently anthologized of the poems from this volume.

Contents

:I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods:Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees:Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away:The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness:That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile:Tara uprooted, and new commonness:Upon the throne and crying about the streets:And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,:Because it is alone of all things happy.:I am contented, for I know that Quiet:Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart:Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,:Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs:A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.


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