Famous Quotes | I had a thought for no one’s...

I had a thought for no one’s but your ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;
That it had all seemed happy, and yet we’d grown
As weary-hearted as that hollow moon. - William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. Adam’s Curse (l. 34–38). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

Categories: Beauty, Love, Weariness

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