William Butler Yeats - poetry and biography

Subject: RE: Help: Yeats
From: rumanci
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 06:41 AM

The source is from Yeats' "Celtic Twilight" which was his first collection of tales from Sligo and Galway first published in 1893. I'll if I can find the context of the quotation later.
rum

Subject: RE: Help: Yeats
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 06:58 AM

Frank Hamilton's post quoted this (click)

(I put aristocracies of thought into the Lyrics and Knowledge Search at top of the page, and voila!)

Subject: RE: Help: Yeats
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:27 AM

Johnny MacEvoy used to use the Rose Tree are as an introduction to the that song about James Connolly that starts " A big crowd was gathered outside of Kilmainham.......

its the poem that starts Oh words are lightly spoken said Pearse to Connolly......

I used to find it very moving. I don't have the recording, but perhaps one of our Irish friends can supply a catalogue number.