The Living Beauty by W. B. Yeats [with subtitles] - read by poet Arthur L Wood

The Living Beauty by W. B. Yeats - 1865-1939.

My aim is to breathe life into our rich literary heritage, and to add to the tradition through my own writing. Your support helps me to continue.

If you have enjoyed my poetry readings please consider purchasing my book: 'Poems for Susan'. I will send you a signed copy!

Written during the summer lockdown, the poems tell a story of love and distance, the bond between tradition and modernity, and ultimately convey a message of hope.

In his foreword, Raymond Keene OBE writes, "Poems for Susan functions as an overview of the entire English tradition of poetic creation, in terms of varying style, rhythm, meter, rhyme and subject matter.

While poetry such as this can still be written, civilisation shall not sink, the great battle of the mind shall not be lost, and the rough beast will - along with the passionate intensity of the worst - finally be overcome".

I'll say and maybe dream I have drawn content—
Seeing that time has frozen up the blood,
The wick of youth being burned and the oil spent—
From beauty that is cast out of a mould
In bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears,
Appears, but when we have gone is gone again,
Being more indifferent to our solitude
Than 'twere an apparition. O heart, we are old,
The living beauty is for younger men,
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

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[ArthurLWood]

"O heart, we are old,
The living beauty is for younger men,
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears."

[ArthurLWood]

My aim is to breathe life into our rich literary heritage, and to add to the tradition through my own writing. Your support helps me to continue.

If you have enjoyed my poetry readings please consider purchasing my book: 'Poems for Susan'. I will send you a signed copy!

Written during the summer lockdown, the poems tell a story of love and distance, the bond between tradition and modernity, and ultimately convey a message of hope.

In his foreword, Raymond Keene OBE writes, "Poems for Susan functions as an overview of the entire English tradition of poetic creation, in terms of varying style, rhythm, meter, rhyme and subject matter.

While poetry such as this can still be written, civilisation shall not sink, the great battle of the mind shall not be lost, and the rough beast will - along with the passionate intensity of the worst - finally be overcome".

[rosiejack]

A brilliant beautiful piece perfectly performed thank you Arthur. Your own poems are just as wonderful.

[exildoc]

The living beauty is for younger men. That’s certainly the case.