 | William Butler Yeats - 1922 - 390 pages
...Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE THE trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, ^ ^fL&-<rl>^ Under the October twilighfthe water Mirrors a still sky ; Upon the brimming water among... | |
 | Paul de Man - 2000 - 344 pages
...situation of unmistakable reality. Examples abound; "The Wild Swans at Coole" can be taken as typical: The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. (Var., p. 322) 59 and "Among School Children" is a clear case of a poem starting... | |
 | Joseph Adams - 1984 - 132 pages
...hand (2o) O hurry where by water among the trees The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh (21) The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky (22) But now they drift on the still water (23) With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace,... | |
 | Vidagdha Meredith Bennett - 1991 - 270 pages
...summon a complex inner response. As the poem begins, the poet is a passive, dispassionate observer: The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. 6 However, as the poet merges his mind in the contemplation of the swans upon... | |
 | H. G. Widdowson - 1992 - 248 pages
...knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time . . . (Donne: The Sun Rising) The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky . . . (Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole) And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken... | |
 | Yutaka Sato, Margaret Y. Yamashita - 1992 - 260 pages
...reflected in poems in each language: Japanese: Furu ike ya; kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto (Basho) English: The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, (The first two lines from "The Wild Swans at Coole," by William Butler Yeats) In the above Japanese... | |
 | the late M. L. Rosenthal - 1997 - 379 pages
...("The woodland paths are dry"). Then the enchantment sets in, although the tone remains matter-of-fact: Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still...sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. Gradually, the pitch becomes more exciting and the emotion more personal. The... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 1997 - 394 pages
...organized around the number of stresses per line rather than by meter. Consider the first stanza: III I The trees are in their autumn beauty, / / / The woodland paths are dry, / / / * I Under the October twilight the water / I. I Mirrors a still sky; II itt Upon the brimming... | |
 | James Olney - 1998 - 456 pages
...in mood very unlike "Leda and the Swan" so the meanings drawn out of "still" correspondingly differ. The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky. . . . "Ah, yes, yes, beautiful, too," one seems to hear Beckett murmuring of these lines as he did... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 556 pages
...2. One of the seven woods of Lady Gregory's Coole Park estate. From The Wila Swans at Coole (1917) The Wild Swans at Coole The trees are in their autumn beauty. The woodland paths' are dry, Under the Oetober twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones =; Arc nine... | |
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THE trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me Since I first made my... 
