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For he comes, the human child, To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand. This poem is in the public domain. William Butler Yeats, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the English language, received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Yeats wrote a play about a young bride being stolen by fairies which was written from the human point of view (unlike this one), and is definitely a tragedy. There seem to be a lot of variants of Yeats's poems.
Overview. Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Stolen Child. The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats's more notable early poems. The poem is based on Irish legend and concerns faeries beguiling a child to come away with them.
William Butler Yeats. The Stolen Child. Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water-rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berries And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child!
The Stolen Child. Where dips the rocky highland. Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island. Where flapping herons wake. The drowsy water rats; There we’ve hid our faery vats, Full of berrys. And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild. With a faery, hand in hand,
Aug 23, 2013 · The first three stanzas of the poem The Stolen Child has Celtic references that make the reader realize that W.B. Yeats wants to return to a more innocent and less politicized world of the past. Celtic legend often offers a myth about fairies stealing a child and replacing it with a changeling. Yeats uses this myth in his poem, The Stolen Child ...
The Stolen Child Lyrics. Where dips the rocky highland. Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island. Where flapping herons wake. The drowsy water rats; There we've hid our faery vats,...
