International Yeats Society
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The International Yeats Society unites scholars, students, and readers of W.B. Yeats from around the world. Become a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org
![Ten Days Left! Submit your proposal to the 2026 International Yeats Society conference by August 30. University of St Thomas at Houston, Texas. "Yeats's Locations". Dec 3-5 2026. [Illustration of a swan and a photograph of a St Thomas building]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qqmstqbixioxkaq3yvhm35u/bafkreigaoxvmyjr3cp2rcpbgnmnwnzjg377psm5aqz4zdkawzqia4u2hli)
![These are the Clouds
W.B. Yeats
[Illustration of a castle atop a mountainside set against a dark cloudy sky]
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye:
The weak lay hand on what the strong has done,
Till that be tumbled that was lifted high
And discord follow upon unison,
And all things at one common level lie.
And therefore, friend, if your great race were run
And these things came, So much the more thereby
Have you made greatness your companion,
Although it be for children that you sigh:
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qqmstqbixioxkaq3yvhm35u/bafkreifawsngtuobopu3h3re3g5jnaz3seu5msiofkvaq2fecz6a42ee4q)
![[Illustration of an eagle in flight] Those Images - W.B. Yeats - What if I bade you leave
The cavern of the mind?
There's better exercise
In the sunlight and wind.
I never bade you go
To Moscow or to Rome.
Renounce that drudgery,
Call the Muses home.
Seek those images
That constitute the wild,
The lion and the virgin,
The harlot and the child
Find in middle air
An eagle on the wing,
Recognise the five
That make the Muses sing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qqmstqbixioxkaq3yvhm35u/bafkreihe2fg2fkmrot5e2mytgglzscrgg2sgwd2fzwndvmaafj4y6qrbhu)
![The Realists
Hope that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?
William Butler Yeats
[Illustration of a dragon]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qqmstqbixioxkaq3yvhm35u/bafkreiatwlcvkavawautyveillrkg52wjkmryzu35atuvhzakuznn3ztci)
