Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

Yeats Poems, 1927 

Page 4

 

IV

 

Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enameling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come

 

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       Cf. Yeats, Byzantium (1930) - A History of the Byzantine Empire

K. Parker, Yeats and his two visions of Byzantium * Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium, * Aspects of Byzantium in Modern Popular Music (including music on Yeats' 1927 "Sailing to Byzantium", a song on Yeats' 1930 "Byzantium") * Byzantium & Modern Greece Resources  * Greek Orthodoxy - From Apostolic Times to the Present Day

Reference address : https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greeks-us/yeats-sailing.asp?pg=4