“….. wherever green is worn Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born” from Easter 1916
“ … in all their loneliness and pain You’d cry, ‘some woman’s yellow hair Has maddened every mother’s son’:..” from September 1913
“Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, …” from The Cold Heaven
“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman’s face, or worse - … ” from All Things can Tempt Me
“… O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, … ” from Brown Penny
“… O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? “ from Among School Children
“ Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blues and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, .. “ from He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
“Many times man lives and dies Between his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, .. “ from Under Ben Bulben
“… Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies, But we have hidden in our hearts the falme out of the eyes Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan…. “ from Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland
“ … I am thinking of a child’s vow sworn in vain Never to leave that valley his fathers called their home” from Under Saturn