by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
IX. Young Man's Song
Language: English
'She will change,' I cried. 'Into a withered crone.' The heart in my side, That so still had lain, In noble rage replied And beat upon the bone: 'Uplift those eyes and throw Those glances unafraid: She would as bravely show Did all the fabric fade; No withered crone I saw Before the world was made.' Abashed by that report, For the heart cannot lie, I knelt in the dirt. And all shall bend the knee To my offended heart Until it pardon me.
Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), appears in Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "IX. Young Man's Song", 2020, copyright © 2020 [ baritone and piano ], from Selections from 'Words for Music Perhaps', no. 2, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-10-23
Line count: 18
Word count: 84