I don't consider myself to be competent to comment on the great poetry by such a great poet, WB Yeats. However I have enjoyed listening to his poetry. I salute him. 🎉❤😂
Life lasts but a little time , In both the heart and in the mind . A fleeting gift from up above , The only thing worth the while is LOVE . For where there is LOVE there is surely life , And where there is not there is but pain and strife . And hell is not some pit filled with fire and dread , Hell is living on after your LOVE is dead . The pain cuts right to the very bone , And though I walk among you I am always alone . And so I wait with baited breath , For the sweet release of death . For only death can set me free , Only death can end my misery .
When my son was small he loved to hear When you are old. I think it was the slow, lullaby rythm. He has, sadly, learned from schooldays to despise poetry. Even baulking at my gift of Saemus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. I fear that now he is middke aged he will never regain his early love.
I’m imagining the little fellow listening to the words and it made me smile. I think at some point he will remember and he will treasure the memory of how he loved it.
I recognise "When I am old" as being Cillian Murphy. I recognise Jeremy Irons as the reciter of "Leda and the Swan". Magnificent recitals both. Liam Neeson recites "Easter 1916" beautifully. Is it James Stewart, the Actor who recites "The Wild Swans at Coole"? I can see the face of the reader of "The Song of Wandering Aengus" but fail to recall the name. Sadly I can not recognise any others. Wonderful collection. Thank you
Oh but I did! Very much so! I know these poems ... and take joy at how the special treatment of each and every recital voice may affect the impact, the meaning through the delivery of the words. Attaching the voice to an individual helps even more when one knows their work on the stage or screen. Strange that you feel or claim to know what my takeaway from these works are; I guess you have ESP or are an expert in mental telepathy. With such a limited view, may I suggest you stick to television.
The White Birds I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die. A weariness comes from those dreams, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose; Ah, dream not of them, my beloved the flame of the meteor that goes, Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew: For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you! - W.B. Yeats Love Yeats poetry. ✝️❤️
Wonderful. The Song of Wandering Aengus is spine tingling however well you know it, Perfect selection although I would add In Memory Con Markowiz and Eva Gore-Booth a masterpiece.
I thought so 😁 & came here to the comments to find another who knows that voice & loves it. Cillian’s grand in Oppenheimer & other roles where he sheds his Irish kilt, but I do miss it ☺️☘️🇮🇪
Thank you! At last! The Song of Wandering Aengus and He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven (two extremely special poems for me) are read similarly to how I like to phrase them so am surprised when renditions that lack the space and emotion. Do you know who reads those two?
Caving...1st time I've been to a nonmusical poetry reading 😂 someone please tell me why my thoughts turned to "Jaq=c" de Ripper ..albeit some voices were soothing and then I loathed a certain name 😅...🎉
I just can’t help but wonder if the tempo is the same as the great man had it in his own head, we’ll never know but I just get the feeling it’s all played out a little for drama’s sake. I dunno. 🤷🏾♂️
Excellent set of readings. Pity about the soulless set of adverts in the middle of " The Lake Isle Of Innisfree " Typical TH-cam, I'd almost sware they did it deliberately.
I am not sure about all of them, but I'm fairly certain that Leda and the swan is read by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Easter is read by Liam Neeson. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help!
One of Yeats' poems most arresting poems has to be 'Aedh -He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' - beautifully touching on the realm of unfulfilled desire and the impact that love can have on our fragile hearts. Simon Paxton has recorded it here: th-cam.com/video/vGioFVgtvGU/w-d-xo.html
Yes, I tend to agree; I find the videos featuring infant macaque monkeys is a case in point.❤ The music just spoils the❤ natural sounds of the little monkeys and of their immediate environment.
The reading of poetry is it's own music. These inappropriate musical backgrounds are an irritating interference and disrespectful of the poetry. I understand they mean well but it's just plain wrong.
I would have to disagree, the mood and ambiance set by the music is amazing. More so in the rests between pieces it gives you something to listen while thinking.
OK. We need to have a wrestling match about their order, etc. ;) I've been to where he's buried and it is a fitting memorial. The church has been part of his family's professional preaching history.
@@jimnewcombe7584 Even though "The Stolen Child" is not mature Yeats, it's still a wonderful, beguiling work. Agree about the other poems cited deserving inclusion as well. With such a great poet as Yeats, it's hard to whittle down his legacy to a mere handful of masterpieces.
As a musician and soundtrack composer - why do you need music for these wonderful words? Would you add that to Shakespeare? It's distracting - let the poetry do its job!
Shut up weirdo, there's plenty of readings of his poetry on TH-cam without music. Some people prefer music in the background so I went through the bother of putting together a compilation with music. To you and everyone else who doesn't like the music, just search for other readings and most of them won't have music. Moron.
THE SHEAF Lili I’ll take this pen to tell you of the harvest of the young Like every crop they grow in Sun, the rain draws them aloft Observe the healthy, leave the sick and bring them to our Lord When young and ripe it’s harvest time, firm and not too soft Like every crop there comes a time when Nature asks the scythe When the Gods of all the World call out, demand their tithe. - We’ve taken from the Gods all year the little that they ask On Sabbats we were glad to give, our Sabbat’s sacrifice A fire burning to the sky, we’ll dance, sing into the night Call on Moloch and the Goat, of Ahriman the knife We bring the choicest of the crop to begin our sacred rite Sedated with the Mandrake root, the cup, the chants, one life. - Then we all fall into silent meditation, the silence of our God And as he enters into our minds a wondrous World explodes The colors, sound and movement of a million ages past This is his gift to devotees for sacrifice, love to last His thanks to all the Worldwide clan for keeping to the road Keeping all the Sabbats, keeping true to all he’s asked. - And as we meld back into the World our secrets will be kept The adventurous young they disappear, they search the open road Our sheaf of wheat burnt in the flames, our gift unto the Gods Is taken to a Paradise, wherein from life has flowed We’ve taken the cup and drunk the life as rich and red as wine The Salt, the Water, Blood, taken at the Altar, Ahriman’s black shrine. Blessed be.
I don't consider myself to be competent to comment on the great poetry by such a great poet, WB Yeats. However I have enjoyed listening to his poetry. I salute him. 🎉❤😂
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams…”
How wonderfully read these epic masterpieces of poetic art are. I love his work.
I could read em better
There are Poets -- and then there is William Butler Yeats - a giant among them all .
Like Wordsworth
There will NEVER be poets to ever walk this earth like their kinds again
So very, very true ❤
I think it's Jeremy Irons for Leda and the Swan
It took me many years and life pain and a dark soul of the night to truly understand The Second Coming. It’s so beautiful.
Liam Neeson's voice is divine🥺. He read "Easter" to perfection❤️
Yes. It’s a very powerful poem.
Thank you for these wonderful readings...listening in a rainy night,in Italy
Indeed. Brilliant.
This is Cillian Murphy 💝👍 from Peaky Blinders NOT Liam Nielsen
Since when did Cillian Murphy have an Ulster accent? And who the hell’s Liam Nielsen ? Is he from Tyrone perchance?
Thank you for gathering all these readings in one convenient place. Richard in Canada.
Life lasts but a little time ,
In both the heart and in the mind .
A fleeting gift from up above ,
The only thing worth the while is LOVE .
For where there is LOVE there is surely life ,
And where there is not there is but pain and strife .
And hell is not some pit filled with fire and dread ,
Hell is living on after your LOVE is dead .
The pain cuts right to the very bone ,
And though I walk among you I am always alone .
And so I wait with baited breath ,
For the sweet release of death .
For only death can set me free ,
Only death can end my misery .
Wonderfully evocative poem. I'm unfamiliar with it. Is this one by Yeats, or perchance one you yourself composed?
So true.
@@barrymoore4470 This is one of my own poems
Gratitude
When my son was small he loved to hear When you are old. I think it was the slow, lullaby rythm.
He has, sadly, learned from schooldays to despise poetry. Even baulking at my gift of Saemus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.
I fear that now he is middke aged he will never regain his early love.
I’m imagining the little fellow listening to the words and it made me smile. I think at some point he will remember and he will treasure the memory of how he loved it.
Easter 1916 is such a terrifying poem. What a masterpiece
Agreed, i know you posted this a year passed, but i agree whole heartedly. Thats the benchmark. Amazing.
One of a kind how well spoken yes. So relatable.. soft spoken can't help but listen elegance
Beautiful. They are beautifully read.
Thoroughly enjoyed these readings.
Exquisite poems, well read.
One more poem should be added to this beautiful collection: Sailing to Byzantium.
I need to hear the stolen child
Oh yes! "A tattered coat upon a stick ..."
One of my favorite
Perfect editing. Timely. Well done. Thank you.
I recognise "When I am old" as being Cillian Murphy. I recognise Jeremy Irons as the reciter of "Leda and the Swan". Magnificent recitals both. Liam Neeson recites "Easter 1916" beautifully. Is it James Stewart, the Actor who recites "The Wild Swans at Coole"? I can see the face of the reader of "The Song of Wandering Aengus" but fail to recall the name. Sadly I can not recognise any others.
Wonderful collection. Thank you
You're supposed to listen to the poems,not guess who the readers are.The English can't read Irish poetry,as proven by the second reader.
Oh but I did! Very much so! I know these poems ... and take joy at how the special treatment of each and every recital voice may affect the impact, the meaning through the delivery of the words. Attaching the voice to an individual helps even more when one knows their work on the stage or screen.
Strange that you feel or claim to know what my takeaway from these works are; I guess you have ESP or are an expert in mental telepathy.
With such a limited view, may I suggest you stick to television.
Sam Neill on Inishfree ?
The White Birds
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee;
And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
A weariness comes from those dreams, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose;
Ah, dream not of them, my beloved the flame of the meteor that goes,
Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew:
For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you! - W.B. Yeats
Love Yeats poetry. ✝️❤️
Beautiful, thank you.
Wonderful. The Song of Wandering Aengus is spine tingling however well you know it, Perfect selection although I would add In Memory Con Markowiz and Eva Gore-Booth a masterpiece.
This is so utterly wonderful! I cane to it late but, better kate than never. And a terrible beauty is born!🙏🕊️🙏🇮🇪🏴
Could Jack the Ripper have been a female?
"When you are old" Cilian Murphy ❤❤❤
I thought so 😁 & came here to the comments to find another who knows that voice & loves it. Cillian’s grand in Oppenheimer & other roles where he sheds his Irish kilt, but I do miss it ☺️☘️🇮🇪
Lol … !! I was going to correct my typo from kilt to say lilt, but decided to leave it for a bit of fun 😉
Simply fabulous
Lovely thank you .
Wonderful! Thank you.
I wonder why is there only few subscribers in this great channel!?
Beautiful. All I am a pianist so I found the music to be equally beautiful as the poems.
Like the voice behind the readings.
Thank you 🙏🤍
"The Second Coming" is even more poignant now than when it was penned.
Wonderful . Thank you
Really love this post but would love it more if you add the readers' names to the credits!
Jesus Christ Tim I tried my best, I really tried my best, Jesus Christ Tim
Thank you.
Liam Neeson Easter 1916 to perfection .
Poem is a feeling
I wish there was a list of the readers' names.
Well I can take a wild guess at the fifth one 😅
Someone said Cillian Murphy read the first
@@elderlyoogwayI thought it was Cillian too
This is amazing
I just wanted to hear it again with out the lecture
I will be reading his work.
the readings are moving. the music is unrelenting and distracting. Any thoughts on giving us listeners an option to mute the music??
Well done. Thanks.
Thank you for this video. ❤
Well done
This is brilliant 🤩
These are fantastic
Perfection 💕
Read all these in high school but didnt appreciate them like i do now.
goosebumps
"Among School Children" and "Sailing to Byzantium" didn't make the top ten? I demand a recount!
Wonderful❤
I agree, the music distracts...
Perfect ❤️
Thank you! At last! The Song of Wandering Aengus and He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven (two extremely special poems for me) are read similarly to how I like to phrase them so am surprised when renditions that lack the space and emotion. Do you know who reads those two?
Try this for a beauty
th-cam.com/video/BYb-qOKKC0E/w-d-xo.html
The song of wandering... in which book can i read it ??? Thanks !
It was originally published in "The Wind Among The Reeds", but it would be in many collections, I think.
@@janmcintyre8595 Thank you so much 💙🐦
@@espadasagrada6573 do you want to hear it sung also? Christy Moore does and awesome version
He missed my all time favourite, The Cold Heaven.
I wish there was no music put, otherwise nice reading
Could anyone please tell me which version of Gymnopedie no.1 is playing over Leda and the Swan? The one linked is incorrect. Thanks!
Who read When you are old? It's a beautiful performance.
Cillian Murphey
Cillian Murphy
Why don’t you post the readers name?
A bit' to much music, but' it's alright. Good narration, clear' & understandable.
I forgot how good he was...years ago I wrote about his resting place under Ben bulbin
For another way of seeing this, access William Irwin Thompson's "Imagination of an Insurrection".
What's that poem about a farmer standing on a bridge shooting at the British? That's a good one I never liked the British
This list doesn't include A Prayer for My Daughter??
Caving...1st time I've been to a nonmusical poetry reading 😂 someone please tell me why my thoughts turned to "Jaq=c" de Ripper ..albeit some voices were soothing and then I loathed a certain name 😅...🎉
I just can’t help but wonder if the tempo is the same as the great man had it in his own head, we’ll never know but I just get the feeling it’s all played out a little for drama’s sake. I dunno. 🤷🏾♂️
What does the second coming poem mean
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Among School Children -- maybe Yeats' masterpiece.
Wow 🎉
Cillian murphy when you are old
Yeats, bourbon, a dying fire and a starless windy night in the mid south of North America.
Oh God this is good. Yeats. Yes. Oh yes. Very good indeed.
+Babette'sFeast?😊
Excellent set of readings. Pity about the soulless set of adverts in the middle of " The Lake Isle Of Innisfree " Typical TH-cam, I'd almost sware they did it deliberately.
Also well worth, check out Mike Scott's great record
Can anyone identify the readers please 🙏?
Yes pls if anyone knows pls share
I am not sure about all of them, but I'm fairly certain that Leda and the swan is read by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Easter is read by Liam Neeson. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help!
When You are Old by Cillian Murphy
Easter by Liam Neeson
Leda and the Swan is read by Jeremy Irons.
Rory Kinnear read "The Second Coming," I think.
For those who wish to reach the wall in early days.,..can only be done
Through a true fasting
😊❤😊
One of Yeats' poems most arresting poems has to be 'Aedh -He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' - beautifully touching on the realm of unfulfilled desire and the impact that love can have on our fragile hearts. Simon Paxton has recorded it here: th-cam.com/video/vGioFVgtvGU/w-d-xo.html
Does anyone know who read When You are Old? I think I'm in love.
Cillian Murphy
These readers are exquisite. I must add for my part, that the musical accompaniment is banal and even distracting from the art of those readers.
Yes, I tend to agree; I find the videos featuring infant macaque monkeys is a case in point.❤ The music just spoils the❤ natural sounds of the little monkeys and of their immediate environment.
The reading of poetry is it's own music. These inappropriate musical backgrounds are an irritating interference and disrespectful of the poetry. I understand they mean well but it's just plain wrong.
@@axismundi8I’m just grateful these gems are still being appreciated and available ❤
I would have to disagree, the mood and ambiance set by the music is amazing. More so in the rests between pieces it gives you something to listen while thinking.
OK. We need to have a wrestling match about their order, etc. ;)
I've been to where he's buried and it is a fitting memorial. The church has been part of his family's professional preaching history.
WHO ARE THE READERS? Shameful that their names aren't listed anywhere! ADD THE NAMES OF THE READERS ON THE VIDEOS IN THE TITLES, IN THE COMMENTS.
The reader of Lake Isle of Innisfree has changed the words of Yeats’ poem.
I wish Cillian Murphy, read them all! 0:06
Adrian Dunbar was one if the readers
Liam Neeson with Cillian.
Murphy, Irish voices only.
GOOD
Can we acknowledge that Estuary English and Yeats are not compatible?
I'm referring to The Second Coming reading, btw.
Where is The Stolen Child?
That isn't among his best. Where, however, is Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium, and Among School Children?
@@jimnewcombe7584 Even though "The Stolen Child" is not mature Yeats, it's still a wonderful, beguiling work. Agree about the other poems cited deserving inclusion as well. With such a great poet as Yeats, it's hard to whittle down his legacy to a mere handful of masterpieces.
We need translation to Portuguese or Spanish, please.
As a musician and soundtrack composer - why do you need music for these wonderful words? Would you add that to Shakespeare? It's distracting - let the poetry do its job!
Shut up weirdo, there's plenty of readings of his poetry on TH-cam without music. Some people prefer music in the background so I went through the bother of putting together a compilation with music. To you and everyone else who doesn't like the music, just search for other readings and most of them won't have music. Moron.
Who read Lake Isle of Innisfree?
Distracting music.
@@wellread8320😱 still love your channel
We were all bonny once.
THE SHEAF Lili
I’ll take this pen to tell you of the harvest of the young
Like every crop they grow in Sun, the rain draws them aloft
Observe the healthy, leave the sick and bring them to our Lord
When young and ripe it’s harvest time, firm and not too soft
Like every crop there comes a time when Nature asks the scythe
When the Gods of all the World call out, demand their tithe. -
We’ve taken from the Gods all year the little that they ask
On Sabbats we were glad to give, our Sabbat’s sacrifice
A fire burning to the sky, we’ll dance, sing into the night
Call on Moloch and the Goat, of Ahriman the knife
We bring the choicest of the crop to begin our sacred rite
Sedated with the Mandrake root, the cup, the chants, one life. -
Then we all fall into silent meditation, the silence of our God
And as he enters into our minds a wondrous World explodes
The colors, sound and movement of a million ages past
This is his gift to devotees for sacrifice, love to last
His thanks to all the Worldwide clan for keeping to the road
Keeping all the Sabbats, keeping true to all he’s asked. -
And as we meld back into the World our secrets will be kept
The adventurous young they disappear, they search the open road
Our sheaf of wheat burnt in the flames, our gift unto the Gods
Is taken to a Paradise, wherein from life has flowed
We’ve taken the cup and drunk the life as rich and red as wine
The Salt, the Water, Blood, taken at the Altar, Ahriman’s black shrine.
Blessed be.
Leda, and her swan, an indifferent beak and that randy rascal Will. .. ...
Where are you?
Perfectly demonstrated by his hair do
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I must arise and go now etc
#9
translated from Ronsard.
Good one 👍 how about Amanda Mckittrick Ross? th-cam.com/video/wRiv7G52oEQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=malJHsRhFV0QK5t-
The music distracts.
No readers names, pity
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