The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends
Published in Poem Of The Day
Though you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most:
Time's bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.
About this poem
"The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends" was published in "The Wind Among the Reeds" (John Lane Company, 1899).
About W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His collections of poetry include "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889) and "In the Seven Woods" (1903). Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923. He died on Jan. 28, 1939.
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