 There's many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two, If he could see the townland That we are riding to; Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.  Century Monthly Magazine - Page 542edited by - 1923Full view - About this book
 | William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1906 - 364 pages
...careless notes live on, But bless our hands that ebb away. THE HAPPY TOWNLAND There's many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two, If he could see the tcrvnland That we are riding to ; Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year ; Rivers... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1908 - 284 pages
...love's to give and to spare ; Where boughs have fruit and blossom At all times of the year ; Where rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood ; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd. The little fox... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Alchemists - 1914 - 262 pages
...love's to give and to spare ; Where boughs have fruit and blossom At all times of the year ; Where rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood ; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd. And while he was... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - English drama - 1921 - 328 pages
...say, " All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters." THE HAPPY TOWNLAND There's many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two, If he could see the townland That we were riding to; Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over... | |
 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane - Biology - 1924 - 112 pages
...the dunghill and the slaughterhouse, and make the city at last self-sufficient. There's many a strong farmer whose heart would break in two If he could...Rivers are running over with red beer and brown beer, [39] An old man plays the bagpipes in a golden and silver wood, Queens, their eyes blue like the ice,... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Essays - 1918 - 556 pages
...and to spare ; When 14 _ -_— =^ * boughs have fruit and blossom at all times of the year ; Where rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood ; Queens, EEE their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd. CHORDS. §._•""•_•... | |
 | the late M. L. Rosenthal - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 379 pages
...Townland" will illustrate: There's many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two, If he could but see the townland That we are riding to; Boughs have...and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice Are dancing in a crowd. The little fox he... | |
 | David Holdeman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 282 pages
...and the "good place" that it creates: There's many a strong farmer Who's heart would break in two lf he could see the townland That we are riding to; Boughs...beer and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes 1n a golden and silver wood, Queens their eyes blue like the ice Are dancing in a crowd. Recapitulating... | |
 | Nicholas Meihuizen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 196 pages
...located, indeed, in the paradise of Irish tradition, Tir-nan-Oge, the Country of the Young (CP 94): Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of...beer and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes hi a golden and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd. A variation... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Poetry - 2001 - 612 pages
...long, 10 Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song. The Happy Townland There's many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two, If he could...man plays the bagpipes In a golden and silver wood; 10 Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd. The little fox he murmured, 'O what... | |
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