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.
(1892)
THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL
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Innisfree 6
March 2008
Welcome to Innisfree 6. In this issue, we continue our “Closer Look” series in which we showcase the writing of an exceptionally accomplished poet, this time the poetry of Eric Pankey. Eric’s eighth book, The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems, is due out from Ausable Press this spring. His first book, For the New Year, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
In addition to free verse, this issue features poems in a variety of forms, including two poems from Dan Masterson’s forthcoming fifth book, That Which Is Seen, a book of ekphrastic poems; Margaret A. Robinson’s crown of sonnets titled “Braided Marigolds”; Bruce Bennett’s rhymed fables from his full-length manuscript of such poems entitled Ephemerae; poems of rhymed couplets from Ben Berman; sonnets from Nancy Kenney Connolly, Roger Mitchell, and Patric Pepper; prose poems from Barbara Crooker and Jennifer Sullivan; and villanelles from Roberta Feins, Melanie Houle, and Frederick Lord.
We also add an Essays and Reviews section in which we post the weekly essays distributed by the Poetry Foundation, as well as others that come our way. You can access these pieces by clicking on the Essays and Reviews link in the green column of the poets’ pages.
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