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Featured poem for September by William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
I will arise and go
now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there,
a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there,
for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all
a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for
always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the
pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
in turns the whole world asleep
- tc
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things... It is a way in which
the cold winter rain, the swallows of evening, even the very day in its hotness, and the length of the night become truly
alive, share in our humanity, speak their own silent and expressive language.
- R. H. Blyth
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