English Poetry. William Butler Yeats. The Choice. Уильям Батлер Йейтс.

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:

1. Under Ben Bulben
2. To Be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee
3. In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
4. The Municipal Gallery Revisited
5. Maid Quiet

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Dante Rossetti (Данте Россетти) The Choice (“Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die”)

George Wither (Джордж Уидер) The Choice (“Me so oft my fancy drew”)

Edith Nesbit (Эдит Несбит) The Choice (“PLAGUE take the dull and dusty town”)

Lucy Montgomery (Люси Монтгомери) The Choice (“Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen”)

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