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.
THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL
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Innisfree 14
the Philip Dacey issue
spring 2012
With Innisfree 14, we continue our series of Closer Looks at the poetry of an exceptional contemporary poet, this time with a generous selection of poems from the books of Philip Dacey.
He joins these earlier subjects of Closer Looks by Innisfree, all of which are available on the Previous Issues page:
Innisfree 13, fall, 2011 Jean Nordhaus Innisfree 12, spring, 2011 Rod Jellema Innisfree 11, fall 2010: Eleanor Wilner Innisfree 10, spring 2010: John Koethe Innisfree 9, fall 2009: Alice Friman Innisfree 8, spring 2009: Dan Masterson Innisfree 7, fall 2008: Marianne Boruch Innisfree 6, spring 2008: Eric Pankey Innisfree 5, fall 2007: Terence Winch In addition to poetry, this issue also includes several pieces of prose on new collections of poems: Karen Greenbaum-Maya on Judy Kronenfeld's Shimmer, Maryanne Hannan on Kim Roberts's Animal Magnetism, Gray Jacobik on Anne Harding Woodworth's The Artemis Sonnets, Etc., and Greg McBride on Rick Bursky's Death Obscura.
With regret, I note the death of former contributor Louis McKee in November 2011. Read his poems in Innisfree—
Innisfree 2:
http://www.authormark.com/article_750.shtmlInnisfree 11:
http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree_11_26LOUIS_MCKEE.shtml
The Editor
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