When I was young,
I had not given a penny for a song
Did not the poet sing it with such airs
That one believed he had a sword upstairs.


'All Things Can Tempt Me' (1910)

William Butler Yeats Quotes

When I was young, I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet sing it with such airs That one believed he had a sword upstairs.

When I was young, I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet sing it with such airs That one believed he had a sword upstairs.

When I was young, I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet sing it with such airs That one believed he had a sword upstairs.

When I was young, I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet sing it with such airs That one believed he had a sword upstairs.