{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy024.htm","path":"neu/yeats/lpy/lpy024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy024.htm","text":"IF this importunate heart trouble your peace\n With words lighter than air,\n Or hopes that in mere hoping flicker and cease;\n Crumple the rose in your hair;\n And cover your lips with odorous twilight and say,\n \"O Hearts of wind-blown flame!\n O Winds, elder than changing of night and day,\n That murmuring and longing came,\n From marble cities loud with tabors of old\n In dove-grey faery lands;\n From battle banners, fold upon purple fold,\n Queens wrought with glimmering hands;\n That saw young Niamh hover with love-lorn face\n Above the wandering tide;\n And lingered in the hidden desolate place,\n Where the last Phoenix died\n And wrapped the flames above his holy head;\n And still murmur and long: p. 29\n O Piteous Hearts, changing till change be dead\n In a tumultuous song\":\n And cover the pale blossoms of your breast\n With your dim heavy hair,\n And trouble with a sigh for all things longing for rest\n The odorous twilight there.","title":"Later Poems of Yeats: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899): Th...","type":"page"}