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Lyric Poem · Nature

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

by W. B. Yeats · 1890

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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Poem
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Poet
W. B. Yeats
Published
1890
Length
12 lines
Form
Lyric Poem
Themes
Nature, Peace

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W. B. Yeats1865–1939
Source record
WikisourceThe Lake Isle of Innisfree by william-butler-yeats, Wikisource transcription
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1890
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