W.B Yeats' best poems

[@nayanendumisra6764]

I don't consider myself to be competent to comment on the great poetry by such a great poet, WB Yeats. However I have enjoyed listening to his poetry. I salute him. 🎉❤😂

[@dvl889]

“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams…”

[@jbyeats]

There are Poets -- and then there is William Butler Yeats - a giant among them all .

[@Whitters40]

Like Wordsworth There will NEVER be poets to ever walk this earth like their kinds again

[@djkelleher3557]

So very, very true ❤

[@rmleighton1]

Thank you for gathering all these readings in one convenient place. Richard in Canada.

[@Eazy-ERyder]

How wonderfully read these epic masterpieces of poetic art are. I love his work.

[@concars1234]

I could read em better

[@gabrielsmiley5067]

Liam Neeson's voice is divine🥺. He read "Easter" to perfection❤️

[@JerrySmith-ih9rd]

Yes. It’s a very powerful poem.

[@marinacatanese1029]

Thank you for these wonderful readings...listening in a rainy night,in Italy

[@bluemoon472]

Indeed. Brilliant.

[@HeatherValentineMsFoodie]

This is Cillian Murphy 💝👍 from Peaky Blinders NOT Liam Nielsen

[@seumasrouse8590]

Since when did Cillian Murphy have an Ulster accent? And who the hell’s Liam Nielsen ? Is he from Tyrone perchance?

[@mikeyates7931]

Life lasts but a little time , In both the heart and in the mind . A fleeting gift from up above , The only thing worth the while is LOVE . For where there is LOVE there is surely life , And where there is not there is but pain and strife . And hell is not some pit filled with fire and dread , Hell is living on after your LOVE is dead . The pain cuts right to the very bone , And though I walk among you I am always alone . And so I wait with baited breath , For the sweet release of death . For only death can set me free , Only death can end my misery .

[@barrymoore4470]

Wonderfully evocative poem. I'm unfamiliar with it. Is this one by Yeats, or perchance one you yourself composed?

[@sharoncravenor2226]

So true.

[@mikeyates7931]

@@barrymoore4470 This is one of my own poems

[@Whitters40]

It took me many years and life pain and a dark soul of the night to truly understand The Second Coming. It’s so beautiful.

[@MDCB1]

Gratitude

[@johnshanley83]

Easter 1916 is such a terrifying poem. What a masterpiece

[@antonburke4662]

Agreed, i know you posted this a year passed, but i agree whole heartedly. Thats the benchmark. Amazing.

[@helenamcginty4920]

When my son was small he loved to hear When you are old. I think it was the slow, lullaby rythm. He has, sadly, learned from schooldays to despise poetry. Even baulking at my gift of Saemus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. I fear that now he is middke aged he will never regain his early love.

[@ks7263]

I’m imagining the little fellow listening to the words and it made me smile. I think at some point he will remember and he will treasure the memory of how he loved it.

[@edh6080]

One of a kind how well spoken yes. So relatable.. soft spoken can't help but listen elegance

[@janicewaddell9464]

Beautiful. They are beautifully read.

[@zareencave3349]

Thoroughly enjoyed these readings.

[@larrylevy3962]

Exquisite poems, well read.

[@gregruland1934]

Perfect editing. Timely. Well done. Thank you.

[@patriciawardell5189]

Beautiful, thank you.

[@janehankins8827]

One more poem should be added to this beautiful collection: Sailing to Byzantium.

[@TheBarmbrackthecat]

I need to hear the stolen child

[@diogenesagogo]

Oh yes! "A tattered coat upon a stick ..."

[@Whitters40]

One of my favorite

[@Cinderella227]

The White Birds I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die. A weariness comes from those dreams, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose; Ah, dream not of them, my beloved the flame of the meteor that goes, Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew: For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you! - W.B. Yeats Love Yeats poetry. ✝️❤️

[@jenrutherford6690]

Lovely thank you .

[@jeffreykalb9752]

"The Second Coming" is even more poignant now than when it was penned.

[@biggles5633]

I recognise "When I am old" as being Cillian Murphy. I recognise Jeremy Irons as the reciter of "Leda and the Swan". Magnificent recitals both. Liam Neeson recites "Easter 1916" beautifully. Is it James Stewart, the Actor who recites "The Wild Swans at Coole"? I can see the face of the reader of "The Song of Wandering Aengus" but fail to recall the name. Sadly I can not recognise any others. Wonderful collection. Thank you

[@michaelgaskell7408]

You're supposed to listen to the poems,not guess who the readers are.The English can't read Irish poetry,as proven by the second reader.

[@biggles5633]

Oh but I did! Very much so! I know these poems ... and take joy at how the special treatment of each and every recital voice may affect the impact, the meaning through the delivery of the words. Attaching the voice to an individual helps even more when one knows their work on the stage or screen. Strange that you feel or claim to know what my takeaway from these works are; I guess you have ESP or are an expert in mental telepathy. With such a limited view, may I suggest you stick to television.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Sam Neill on Inishfree ?

[@RamonaMcKean]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[@natajitrcindhuchao898]

Thank you 🙏🤍

[@michaelmoreskine9677]

Simply fabulous

[@deanedge5988]

Wonderful. The Song of Wandering Aengus is spine tingling however well you know it, Perfect selection although I would add In Memory Con Markowiz and Eva Gore-Booth a masterpiece.

[@BoadiceanRevenge]

This is so utterly wonderful! I cane to it late but, better kate than never. And a terrible beauty is born!🙏🕊️🙏🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jbill2986]

Could Jack the Ripper have been a female?

[@Angela-kc5ui]

Wonderful . Thank you

[@evelyntan5588]

Thank you.

[@desilvamarline5041]

Like the voice behind the readings.

[@erinzgirl66]

Liam Neeson Easter 1916 to perfection .

[@skonther0ck]

Well done. Thanks.

[@1961Lara]

Beautiful. All I am a pianist so I found the music to be equally beautiful as the poems.

[@DannyDake-ff8fz]

This is amazing

[@darkangelkate3950]

Thank you for this video. ❤

[@TimG1]

Really love this post but would love it more if you add the readers' names to the credits!

[@wellread8320]

Jesus Christ Tim I tried my best, I really tried my best, Jesus Christ Tim

[@Brigitte9966]

This is brilliant 🤩

[@marylkap6498]

"When you are old" Cilian Murphy ❤❤❤

[@antheakaranasos2047]

I thought so 😁 & came here to the comments to find another who knows that voice & loves it. Cillian’s grand in Oppenheimer & other roles where he sheds his Irish kilt, but I do miss it ☺️☘️🇮🇪

[@antheakaranasos2047]

Lol … !! I was going to correct my typo from kilt to say lilt, but decided to leave it for a bit of fun 😉

[@leftydad8]

These are fantastic

[@agoodlife2]

Well done

[@Tamopoetry]

I wonder why is there only few subscribers in this great channel!?

[@margefield8520]

I wish there was a list of the readers' names.

[@trickster6669]

Well I can take a wild guess at the fifth one 😅

[@elderlyoogway]

Someone said Cillian Murphy read the first

[@MrLisbonlions1967]

@@elderlyoogwayI thought it was Cillian too

[@thomasdoyle850]

I just wanted to hear it again with out the lecture

[@williamjamesjr.1573]

Poem is a feeling

[@fargobarbi9688]

Perfection 💕

[@marissaclaridge7627]

Wonderful❤

[@gpry236]

Who read When you are old? It's a beautiful performance.

[@DiamondLil]

Cillian Murphey

[@karinameadows4277]

Cillian Murphy

[@kylelooper2156]

"Among School Children" and "Sailing to Byzantium" didn't make the top ten? I demand a recount!

[@madanthakuria6047]

Perfect ❤️

[@HerrrTantris]

I agree, the music distracts...

[@sitahcummings1424]

the readings are moving. the music is unrelenting and distracting. Any thoughts on giving us listeners an option to mute the music??

[@SergiiStarodubtsev]

I wish there was no music put, otherwise nice reading

[@ellenchace3507]

goosebumps

[@helenamcginty4920]

He missed my all time favourite, The Cold Heaven.

[@janmcintyre8595]

Thank you! At last! The Song of Wandering Aengus and He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven (two extremely special poems for me) are read similarly to how I like to phrase them so am surprised when renditions that lack the space and emotion. Do you know who reads those two?

[@cusack4482]

Try this for a beauty kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIrFXqSFgLB2Zqc

[@espadasagrada6573]

The song of wandering... in which book can i read it ??? Thanks !

[@janmcintyre8595]

It was originally published in "The Wind Among The Reeds", but it would be in many collections, I think.

[@espadasagrada6573]

@@janmcintyre8595 Thank you so much 💙🐦

[@TheBarmbrackthecat]

@@espadasagrada6573 do you want to hear it sung also? Christy Moore does and awesome version

[@newyorkeyerish]

Read all these in high school but didnt appreciate them like i do now.

[@boxfox2945]

A bit' to much music, but' it's alright. Good narration, clear' & understandable.

[@ruhaan580]

Cillian murphy when you are old

[@RobertOReilly-z7u]

I forgot how good he was...years ago I wrote about his resting place under Ben bulbin

[@Aperdat]

For another way of seeing this, access William Irwin Thompson's "Imagination of an Insurrection".

[@SimonPaxton_VO]

One of Yeats' poems most arresting poems has to be 'Aedh -He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' - beautifully touching on the realm of unfulfilled desire and the impact that love can have on our fragile hearts. Simon Paxton has recorded it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHjMoHmMnNmpfbc

[@ArmCavTrooper]

Among School Children -- maybe Yeats' masterpiece.

[@jwsuicides8095]

OK. We need to have a wrestling match about their order, etc. ;) I've been to where he's buried and it is a fitting memorial. The church has been part of his family's professional preaching history.

[@Califokie12]

Yeats, bourbon, a dying fire and a starless windy night in the mid south of North America. Oh God this is good. Yeats. Yes. Oh yes. Very good indeed.

[@jbill2986]

+Babette'sFeast?😊

[@JackT13]

Could anyone please tell me which version of Gymnopedie no.1 is playing over Leda and the Swan? The one linked is incorrect. Thanks!

[@gw8147]

Excellent set of readings. Pity about the soulless set of adverts in the middle of " The Lake Isle Of Innisfree " Typical KZbin, I'd almost sware they did it deliberately.

[@mistervacation23]

What's that poem about a farmer standing on a bridge shooting at the British? That's a good one I never liked the British

[@Bo-tz4nw]

Also well worth, check out Mike Scott's great record

[@hellie_el]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@antonburke4662]

I just can’t help but wonder if the tempo is the same as the great man had it in his own head, we’ll never know but I just get the feeling it’s all played out a little for drama’s sake. I dunno. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@Rue747]

Does anyone know who read When You are Old? I think I'm in love.

[@karinameadows4277]

Cillian Murphy

[@DannyDake-ff8fz]

Wow 🎉

[@jbill2986]

Caving...1st time I've been to a nonmusical poetry reading 😂 someone please tell me why my thoughts turned to "Jaq=c" de Ripper ..albeit some voices were soothing and then I loathed a certain name 😅...🎉

[@KimberlyFulghum-uw3zj]

The reader of Lake Isle of Innisfree has changed the words of Yeats’ poem.

[@mermaidmersea7113]

I wish Cillian Murphy, read them all! 0:06

[@ronnieince4568]

Adrian Dunbar was one if the readers

[@erinzgirl66]

Liam Neeson with Cillian. Murphy, Irish voices only.

[@Allen2saint]

Why don’t you post the readers name?

[@jwsuicides8095]

Can we acknowledge that Estuary English and Yeats are not compatible?

[@jwsuicides8095]

I'm referring to The Second Coming reading, btw.

[@gaileverett]

This list doesn't include A Prayer for My Daughter??

[@motivation.monkey]

GOOD

[@Eisenkieffer]

These readers are exquisite. I must add for my part, that the musical accompaniment is banal and even distracting from the art of those readers.

[@stephenhardy312]

Yes, I tend to agree; I find the videos featuring infant macaque monkeys is a case in point.❤ The music just spoils the❤ natural sounds of the little monkeys and of their immediate environment.

[@axismundi8]

The reading of poetry is it's own music. These inappropriate musical backgrounds are an irritating interference and disrespectful of the poetry. I understand they mean well but it's just plain wrong.

[@CarlyMaze]

@@axismundi8I’m just grateful these gems are still being appreciated and available ❤

[@oelolop2136]

I would have to disagree, the mood and ambiance set by the music is amazing. More so in the rests between pieces it gives you something to listen while thinking.

[@TaxingIsThieving]

What does the second coming poem mean

[@richarddamasco4979]

For those who wish to reach the wall in early days.,..can only be done Through a true fasting 😊❤😊

[@charlespeterson3798]

Leda, and her swan, an indifferent beak and that randy rascal Will. .. ...

[@RobertTate-jv3qv]

Perfectly demonstrated by his hair do .

[@geraldinetoner4967]

Can anyone identify the readers please 🙏?

[@BGKsenija]

Yes pls if anyone knows pls share

[@adriannapatterson2987]

I am not sure about all of them, but I'm fairly certain that Leda and the swan is read by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Easter is read by Liam Neeson. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help!

[@zuliacha9306]

When You are Old by Cillian Murphy Easter by Liam Neeson

[@belpit66]

Leda and the Swan is read by Jeremy Irons.

[@mlouise5655]

Rory Kinnear read "The Second Coming," I think.

[@TheSaltydog07]

We were all bonny once.

[@erinzgirl66]

Where is The Stolen Child?

[@jimnewcombe7584]

That isn't among his best. Where, however, is Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium, and Among School Children?

[@barrymoore4470]

@@jimnewcombe7584 Even though "The Stolen Child" is not mature Yeats, it's still a wonderful, beguiling work. Agree about the other poems cited deserving inclusion as well. With such a great poet as Yeats, it's hard to whittle down his legacy to a mere handful of masterpieces.

[@jonbates9386]

As a musician and soundtrack composer - why do you need music for these wonderful words? Would you add that to Shakespeare? It's distracting - let the poetry do its job!

[@wellread8320]

Shut up weirdo, there's plenty of readings of his poetry on KZbin without music. Some people prefer music in the background so I went through the bother of putting together a compilation with music. To you and everyone else who doesn't like the music, just search for other readings and most of them won't have music. Moron.

[@tomwithers3416]

Who read Lake Isle of Innisfree?

[@yappyparksniffspot7949]

Distracting music.

[@youngyoon2397]

@@wellread8320😱 still love your channel

[@lynngilbert1596]

translated from Ronsard.

[@ImogenC-rt3fm]

Where are you?

[@darrinneat2920]

#9

[@carolinapera6024]

We need translation to Portuguese or Spanish, please.

[@keithwalker6892]

I must arise and go now etc

[@yappyparksniffspot7949]

The music distracts.

[@Redcrossdwarf]

Innisfree... Thats what happens when you dont catch bent coppers!

[@stephencharlton2024]

No readers names, pity

[@MariaJose-tl4pz]

🫂💤❄️🕊️🤍

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

Begorrah and bedad! Dems moighty noice pomes, is dem

[@alimcmellon7130]

Read of 2nd coming needs more saliva

[@mariGentle]

Had to stop listening due to the music. Poetry must invite emotion through word and rhythm, the music was loud compared to the words and was evoking it's own emotions