William Butler Yeats (Уильям Батлер Йейтс)
The Choice
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. When all that story's finished, what's the news? In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
William Butler Yeats’s other poems:
- Under Ben Bulben
- To Be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee
- In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited
- Maid Quiet
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