All things can tempt me
W. B. Yeats’ poem “All things can tempt me” was first published in his 1910 collection “The Green Helmet and Other Poems”.
William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in Sandymount, Ireland, and he died on 28 January 1939 in Menton, France, at the age of 73.A poet, dramatist, and writer, Yeats was 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, helping to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years, he served two terms as a senator of the Irish Free State.
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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 deafer than a fish.