The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by WB Yeats

Poet Ciaran O Driscoll recites The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by WB Yeats. Filmed by John (Shedman) Davis during Cuisle Poetry Festival 2005

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

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 honey-bee;
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.

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[krnestor]

A lovely reading! Thank you!

[procommenter]

Make me over in the morning

From the rag-bag of the world!

Scraps of dreams and duds of daring,

Home-bought stuff from far sea-faring.

-- Bliss Carman [1861-1929]

I would mould a world of fire and dew

With no one bitter, grave, or over wise,

And nothing marred or old to do you wrong.

-- William Yeats [1865-1935]

[queenievenus]

Freedom, Freedom, Freedom, this poem oozes the need for this. For a life long gone, a time never to be recaptured ,childhood, and the pleasure of simplicity and uncomplicated contentment.

[letteapplejuice]

Loved this guy, he was my philosophy lecturer in art college last year... I miss him, he left again this year, ciaran, u rock dude, come back and enlighten our withering minds!

[o0butterflyweaver0o]

a beautiful rendition... just as I imagined it would sound. Thank you for the post.

[oflahertie2]

Hearts - core!

[AliceCrow11]

heart.

[NoSpawn]

core