...thrilling life in every feather of him. Some lovely lines drifted through Archibald's consciousness — "Upon the brimming water, among the stones Are nine and fifty swans. Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air ; Their...

...Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE THE trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, ^ ^fL&-<rl>^ Under the October twilighfthe water Mirrors a still sky ; Upon the brimming water among...

...is implied. The note is struck in the first stanza of the very beautiful poem that opens the book: The trees are in their autumn beauty The woodland...swans. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me Since first I made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in...

...a master. Never has Mr. Yeats painted a picture with more movement and color than the tide poem of "The Wild Swans at Coole": The trees are in their...brimming water among the stones Are nine and fifty swans. Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold, Companionable streams, or climb the air;...

...is implied. The note is struck in the first stanza of the very beautiful poem that opens the book: The trees are in their autumn beauty The woodland...swans. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me Since first I made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in...

...situation of unmistakable reality. Examples abound; "The Wild Swans at Coole" can be taken as typical: The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. (Var., p. 322) 59 and "Among School Children" is a clear case of a poem starting...

...hand (2o) O hurry where by water among the trees The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh (21) The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky (22) But now they drift on the still water (23) With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace,...

...summon a complex inner response. As the poem begins, the poet is a passive, dispassionate observer: The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. 6 However, as the poet merges his mind in the contemplation of the swans upon...

...knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time . . . (Donne: The Sun Rising) The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland...the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky . . . (Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole) And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken...

...reflected in poems in each language: Japanese: Furu ike ya; kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto (Basho) English: The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, (The first two lines from "The Wild Swans at Coole," by William Butler Yeats) In the above Japanese...