W.B Yeats' best poems

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9 of the best poems by Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
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1. When You Are Old
Music - Sad Reflection and Grief Piano by MusicLFiles
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2. The Second Coming
Music - Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada
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3. Leda and the Swan
Music - Gymnopedie No. 1 by Kevin MacLeod
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4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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5. Easter 1916
Music - Despair and Triumph by Kevin MacLeod
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6. An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Music - Cold Melancholic Autumn by MusicLFiles
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7. The Wild Swans at Coole
Music - Touching Moments Four - Melody by Kevin MacLeod
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8. The Song of Wandering Aengus
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9. He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven
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@jbyeats 8 месяцев назад

There are Poets -- and then there is William Butler Yeats - a giant among them all .

@Goawaypleasenow 3 месяца назад

Like Wordsworth There will NEVER be poets to ever walk this earth like their kinds again

@djkelleher3557 2 месяца назад

So very, very true ❤

@dvl889 Год назад

“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams…”

@gabrielsmiley5067 Год назад

Liam Neeson's voice is divine🥺. He read "Easter" to perfection❤️

@JerrySmith-ih9rd Год назад

Yes. It’s a very powerful poem.

@marinacatanese1029 Год назад

Thank you for these wonderful readings...listening in a rainy night,in Italy

@bluemoon472 8 месяцев назад

Indeed. Brilliant.

@HeatherValentineMsFoodie 7 месяцев назад

This is Cillian Murphy 💝👍 from Peaky Blinders NOT Liam Nielsen

@seumasrouse8590 7 месяцев назад

Since when did Cillian Murphy have an Ulster accent? And who the hell’s Liam Nielsen ? Is he from Tyrone perchance?

@johnshanley83 9 месяцев назад

Easter 1916 is such a terrifying poem. What a masterpiece

@Eazy-ERyder 6 месяцев назад

How wonderfully read these epic masterpieces of poetic art are. I love his work.

@concars1234 5 месяцев назад

I could read em better

@rmleighton1 Год назад

Thank you for gathering all these readings in one convenient place. Richard in Canada.

@mikeyates7931 Год назад

Life lasts but a little time , In both the heart and in the mind . A fleeting gift from up above , The only thing worth the while is LOVE . For where there is LOVE there is surely life , And where there is not there is but pain and strife . And hell is not some pit filled with fire and dread , Hell is living on after your LOVE is dead . The pain cuts right to the very bone , And though I walk among you I am always alone . And so I wait with baited breath , For the sweet release of death . For only death can set me free , Only death can end my misery .

@barrymoore4470 10 месяцев назад

Wonderfully evocative poem. I'm unfamiliar with it. Is this one by Yeats, or perchance one you yourself composed?

@sharoncravenor2226 20 дней назад

So true.

@mikeyates7931 20 дней назад

@@barrymoore4470 This is one of my own poems

@nayanendumisra6764 2 месяца назад

I don't consider myself to be competent to comment on the great poetry by such a great poet, WB Yeats. However I have enjoyed listening to his poetry. I salute him. 🎉❤😂

@Goawaypleasenow 3 месяца назад

It took me many years and life pain and a dark soul of the night to truly understand The Second Coming. It’s so beautiful.

@MDCB1 3 месяца назад

Gratitude

@edh6080 Год назад

One of a kind how well spoken yes. So relatable.. soft spoken can't help but listen elegance

@larrylevy3962 Год назад

Exquisite poems, well read.

@helenamcginty4920 7 месяцев назад

When my son was small he loved to hear When you are old. I think it was the slow, lullaby rythm. He has, sadly, learned from schooldays to despise poetry. Even baulking at my gift of Saemus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. I fear that now he is middke aged he will never regain his early love.

@ks7263 7 месяцев назад

I’m imagining the little fellow listening to the words and it made me smile. I think at some point he will remember and he will treasure the memory of how he loved it.

@patriciawardell5189 Год назад

Beautiful, thank you.

@RamonaMcKean Год назад

Wonderful! Thank you.

@janicewaddell9464 Год назад

Beautiful. They are beautifully read.

@michaelmoreskine9677 7 месяцев назад

Simply fabulous

@zareencave3349 Год назад

Thoroughly enjoyed these readings.

@jenrutherford6690 Год назад

Lovely thank you .

@janehankins8827 Год назад

One more poem should be added to this beautiful collection: Sailing to Byzantium.

@TheBarmbrackthecat 9 месяцев назад

I need to hear the stolen child

@diogenesagogo 7 месяцев назад

Oh yes! "A tattered coat upon a stick ..."

@Goawaypleasenow 3 месяца назад

One of my favorite

@skonther0ck Год назад

Well done. Thanks.

@gregruland1934 7 месяцев назад

Perfect editing. Timely. Well done. Thank you.

@leftydad8 Год назад

These are fantastic

@darkangelkate3950 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video. ❤

@jeffreykalb9752 7 месяцев назад

"The Second Coming" is even more poignant now than when it was penned.

@Brigitte9966 Год назад

This is brilliant 🤩

@desilvamarline5041 Год назад

Like the voice behind the readings.

@evelyntan5588 3 месяца назад

Thank you.

@1961Lara 4 месяца назад

Beautiful. All I am a pianist so I found the music to be equally beautiful as the poems.

@deanedge5988 8 месяцев назад

Wonderful. The Song of Wandering Aengus is spine tingling however well you know it, Perfect selection although I would add In Memory Con Markowiz and Eva Gore-Booth a masterpiece.

@DannyDake-ff8fz 5 месяцев назад

This is amazing

@madanthakuria6047 11 месяцев назад

Perfect ❤️

@marissaclaridge7627 2 месяца назад

Wonderful❤

@barbarahitchko9688 4 месяца назад

Perfection 💕

@agoodlife2 6 месяцев назад

Well done

@Tamopoetry Год назад

I wonder why is there only few subscribers in this great channel!?

@biggles5633 7 месяцев назад

I recognise "When I am old" as being Cillian Murphy. I recognise Jeremy Irons as the reciter of "Leda and the Swan". Magnificent recitals both. Liam Neeson recites "Easter 1916" beautifully. Is it James Stewart, the Actor who recites "The Wild Swans at Coole"? I can see the face of the reader of "The Song of Wandering Aengus" but fail to recall the name. Sadly I can not recognise any others. Wonderful collection. Thank you

@michaelgaskell7408 7 месяцев назад

You're supposed to listen to the poems,not guess who the readers are.The English can't read Irish poetry,as proven by the second reader.

@biggles5633 7 месяцев назад

Oh but I did! Very much so! I know these poems ... and take joy at how the special treatment of each and every recital voice may affect the impact, the meaning through the delivery of the words. Attaching the voice to an individual helps even more when one knows their work on the stage or screen. Strange that you feel or claim to know what my takeaway from these works are; I guess you have ESP or are an expert in mental telepathy. With such a limited view, may I suggest you stick to television.

@genghisthegreat2034 6 месяцев назад

Sam Neill on Inishfree ?

@ellenchace3507 7 месяцев назад

goosebumps

@TimG1 Год назад

Really love this post but would love it more if you add the readers' names to the credits!

@wellread8320 Год назад

Jesus Christ Tim I tried my best, I really tried my best, Jesus Christ Tim

@margefield8520 8 месяцев назад

I wish there was a list of the readers' names.

@trickster6669 2 месяца назад

Well I can take a wild guess at the fifth one 😅

@thomasdoyle850 3 месяца назад

I just wanted to hear it again with out the lecture

@erinzgirl66 Год назад

Liam Neeson Easter 1916 to perfection .

@williamjamesjr.1573 7 месяцев назад

Poem is a feeling

@marylkap6498 21 день назад

"When you are old" Cilian Murphy ❤❤❤

@Cinderella227 5 месяцев назад

The White Birds I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die. A weariness comes from those dreams, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose; Ah, dream not of them, my beloved the flame of the meteor that goes, Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew: For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you! - W.B. Yeats Love Yeats poetry. ✝️❤️

@DannyDake-ff8fz 5 месяцев назад

Wow 🎉

@JackT13 10 месяцев назад

Could anyone please tell me which version of Gymnopedie no.1 is playing over Leda and the Swan? The one linked is incorrect. Thanks!

@helenamcginty4920 7 месяцев назад

He missed my all time favourite, The Cold Heaven.

@janmcintyre8595 Год назад

Thank you! At last! The Song of Wandering Aengus and He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven (two extremely special poems for me) are read similarly to how I like to phrase them so am surprised when renditions that lack the space and emotion. Do you know who reads those two?

@cusack4482 Год назад

Try this for a beauty ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BYb-qOKKC0E.html

@espadasagrada6573 Год назад

The song of wandering... in which book can i read it ??? Thanks !

@janmcintyre8595 Год назад

It was originally published in "The Wind Among The Reeds", but it would be in many collections, I think.

@espadasagrada6573 Год назад

@@janmcintyre8595 Thank you so much 💙🐦

@TheBarmbrackthecat 9 месяцев назад

@@espadasagrada6573 do you want to hear it sung also? Christy Moore does and awesome version

@user-mh3kp7we7i 4 месяца назад

❤❤❤❤❤

@motivation.monkey 2 месяца назад

GOOD

@user-uq3fi5wr2c 7 месяцев назад

I forgot how good he was...years ago I wrote about his resting place under Ben bulbin

@ruhaan580 Год назад

Cillian murphy when you are old

@boxfox2945 Год назад

A bit' to much music, but' it's alright. Good narration, clear' & understandable.

@Califokie12 7 месяцев назад

Yeats, bourbon, a dying fire and a starless windy night in the mid south of North America. Oh God this is good. Yeats. Yes. Oh yes. Very good indeed.

@gpry236 8 месяцев назад

Who read When you are old? It's a beautiful performance.

@DiamondLil 8 месяцев назад

Cillian Murphey

@karinameadows4277 Месяц назад

Cillian Murphy

@kylelooper2156 7 месяцев назад

"Among School Children" and "Sailing to Byzantium" didn't make the top ten? I demand a recount!

@sitahcummings1424 11 месяцев назад

the readings are moving. the music is unrelenting and distracting. Any thoughts on giving us listeners an option to mute the music??

@SimonPaxton_VO 3 месяца назад

One of Yeats' poems most arresting poems has to be 'Aedh -He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' - beautifully touching on the realm of unfulfilled desire and the impact that love can have on our fragile hearts. Simon Paxton has recorded it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vGioFVgtvGU.html

@Bo-tz4nw 20 дней назад

Also well worth, check out Mike Scott's great record

@richarddamasco4979 Месяц назад

For those who wish to reach the wall in early days.,..can only be done Through a true fasting 😊❤😊

@HerrrTantris 6 месяцев назад

I agree, the music distracts...

@SergiiStarodubtsev Месяц назад

I wish there was no music put, otherwise nice reading

@ArmCavTrooper 7 месяцев назад

Among School Children -- maybe Yeats' masterpiece.

@mermaidmersea7113 Год назад

I wish Cillian Murphy, read them all! 0:06

@ronnieince4568 Год назад

Adrian Dunbar was one if the readers

@erinzgirl66 Год назад

Liam Neeson with Cillian. Murphy, Irish voices only.

@jwsuicides8095 8 месяцев назад

OK. We need to have a wrestling match about their order, etc. ;) I've been to where he's buried and it is a fitting memorial. The church has been part of his family's professional preaching history.

@Allen2saint 8 месяцев назад

Why don’t you post the readers name?

@Rue747 7 месяцев назад

Does anyone know who read When You are Old? I think I'm in love.

@karinameadows4277 Месяц назад

Cillian Murphy

@gw8147 Год назад

Excellent set of readings. Pity about the soulless set of adverts in the middle of " The Lake Isle Of Innisfree " Typical RU-vid, I'd almost sware they did it deliberately.

@keithwalker6892 7 месяцев назад

I must arise and go now etc

@jwsuicides8095 8 месяцев назад

Can we acknowledge that Estuary English and Yeats are not compatible?

@jwsuicides8095 8 месяцев назад

I'm referring to The Second Coming reading, btw.

@KimberlyFulghum-uw3zj 6 месяцев назад

The reader of Lake Isle of Innisfree has changed the words of Yeats’ poem.

@TheSaltydog07 7 месяцев назад

We were all bonny once.

@charlespeterson3798 Год назад

Leda, and her swan, an indifferent beak and that randy rascal Will. .. ...

@carolinapera6024 8 месяцев назад

We need translation to Portuguese or Spanish, please.

@lynngilbert1596 7 месяцев назад

translated from Ronsard.

@ImogenC-rt3fm 7 месяцев назад

Where are you?

@MariaJose-tl4pz 2 месяца назад

🫂💤❄️🕊️🤍

@geraldinetoner4967 Год назад

Can anyone identify the readers please 🙏?

@BGKsenija Год назад

Yes pls if anyone knows pls share

@adriannapatterson2987 Год назад

I am not sure about all of them, but I'm fairly certain that Leda and the swan is read by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Easter is read by Liam Neeson. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help!

@zuliacha9306 8 месяцев назад

When You are Old by Cillian Murphy Easter by Liam Neeson

@belpit66 7 месяцев назад

Leda and the Swan is read by Jeremy Irons.

@erinzgirl66 Год назад

Where is The Stolen Child?

@jimnewcombe7584 Год назад

That isn't among his best. Where, however, is Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium, and Among School Children?

@barrymoore4470 10 месяцев назад

@@jimnewcombe7584 Even though "The Stolen Child" is not mature Yeats, it's still a wonderful, beguiling work. Agree about the other poems cited deserving inclusion as well. With such a great poet as Yeats, it's hard to whittle down his legacy to a mere handful of masterpieces.

@jonbates9386 7 месяцев назад

As a musician and soundtrack composer - why do you need music for these wonderful words? Would you add that to Shakespeare? It's distracting - let the poetry do its job!

@wellread8320 4 месяца назад

Shut up weirdo, there's plenty of readings of his poetry on RU-vid without music. Some people prefer music in the background so I went through the bother of putting together a compilation with music. To you and everyone else who doesn't like the music, just search for other readings and most of them won't have music. Moron.

@mistervacation23 2 месяца назад

What's that poem about a farmer standing on a bridge shooting at the British? That's a good one I never liked the British

@Redcrossdwarf 8 месяцев назад

Innisfree... Thats what happens when you dont catch bent coppers!

@StephenLyons-tl8ie 5 месяцев назад

Begorrah and bedad! Dems moighty noice pomes, is dem

@stephencharlton2024 7 месяцев назад

No readers names, pity

@Eisenkieffer 7 месяцев назад

These readers are exquisite. I must add for my part, that the musical accompaniment is banal and even distracting from the art of those readers.

@stephenhardy312 6 месяцев назад

Yes, I tend to agree; I find the videos featuring infant macaque monkeys is a case in point.❤ The music just spoils the❤ natural sounds of the little monkeys and of their immediate environment.

@axismundi8 4 месяца назад

The reading of poetry is it's own music. These inappropriate musical backgrounds are an irritating interference and disrespectful of the poetry. I understand they mean well but it's just plain wrong.

@Alwayz1999 3 месяца назад

@@axismundi8I’m just grateful these gems are still being appreciated and available ❤

@oelolop2136 Месяц назад

I would have to disagree, the mood and ambiance set by the music is amazing. More so in the rests between pieces it gives you something to listen while thinking.