Never Give All The Heart

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy. Kind delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

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  1. AMBERLEE United States

    hey this poem rocks great job I0 love love poems

  2. richard marks Argentina

    just to add to the only single comment on this poem, "hey, this poem rocks". I would like to forward my appreciations to this fine intellect as their comment has made my day..indeed i don't even need to analyize it now! "ROCK ON"

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