William Butler Yeats - When You Are Old - Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell - reading W. B. Yeats' When You Are Old - invites you to Imagine Ireland.

When You Are Old
by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

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[86transport]

thank goodness he's not gay

[86transport]

can you write the words that he says? please!!!

[DouglasHall1947]

Not heard of iambic pentameter, then? 

[Thereisonlythemoment]

A young handsome talented Irishman reciting Yeats - how apt. Lovely Poem from Yeats about Life, Love and Growth.