“All Things Can Tempt Me“-WB Yeats-Irish Poetry-Famous Sad Poem-Short Poems about Life-Beautiful

All Things Can Tempt Me by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ALL things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman’s face, or worse -- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.  When I was young, I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet Sing it with such airs That one believed he had a sword upstairs; Yet would be now, could I but have my wish, Colder and dumber and d