 | William Butler Yeats - 1921 - 328 pages
...imagination brought A fitter welcome; but a thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH I know that I shall...hate Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltaitan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1922 - 390 pages
...imagination brought A fitter welcome ; but a thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH I KNOW that I shall...love ; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan 's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law,... | |
 | Jacqueline Theodore Trotter - 1923 - 216 pages
...unto me still. The hills of home are in my mind, And there I wander as I will. * FRANCIS LEDWIDGE 9 8 An Irish Airman Foresees his Death I KNOW that I shall...fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; 120 My country is Kiltartan Cross, No likely end could bring them loss My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1924 - 390 pages
...imagination brought A fitter welcome; but a thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. each; AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH I KNOW that I shall...that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan jCross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 pages
...It's long since I began To call up to the eyes This wise and simple man. The Irish Airman had said: 'Those that I fight I do not hate, / Those that I guard I do not love'; and those cadences recur as the poet meditates on 'The living men that I hate, / The dead men that... | |
 | Hugh Underhill - 1992 - 360 pages
...death, is what Yeats imagines his friend Robert Gregory to have achieved as an airman in World War I: I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the...fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love . . . (p. 15«) This is certainly not the spirit in which Edward Thomas went to the war, and the disinterested... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...there, 'And who may he be? (I. 1—4) HAP; InPK; NoAM; TW; WeW An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 70 see me more. (Ill, ii) OHFP 66 I have ventured (1. 3—4) 71 I balanced all, brought all to mind. The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste... | |
 | Joseph McMinn - 1992 - 388 pages
...he is under no obligation to take part in the war nor is he swayed by any political considerations: Those that I fight I do not hate,/ Those that I guard I do not love'. His motivation is entirely selfish, or as Yeats would put it, self-appraising, self-regarding and self-delighting:... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...WOLLSTONECRAFT (1 759-97), English feminist writer. Л Vindication of Ihe Right* of Women, ch. 2 (1 792). 42 , act 1 (1974). 2« WB YEATS (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwrighi. An Irish Airman Forsecs His Dejfh See alio CENSUÁIS;... | |
 | Margaret Simpson - 1995 - 238 pages
...Pages 18 and 82: "I saw Eternity the other night," is from "The World," by Henry Vaughan. Page 18: "I know that I shall meet my fate / Somewhere among the clouds above," is from "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death," by WB Yeats. Page 102: "Our birth is but a sleep and... | |
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Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love ; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan 's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men,... 
