(13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 / County Dublin / Ireland)

poet William Butler Yeats
#16 on top 500 poets
What do you think this poem is about?

The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends

THOUGH you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most:
Time's bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.

Submitted: Thursday, May 17, 2001


Read poems about / on: beauty, lost, friend, time, rose

Comments about this poem (The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends by William Butler Yeats )

Enter the verification code :

There is no comment submitted by members..

People who read William Butler Yeats also read

Top 500 Poems

  1. Phenomenal Woman
    Maya Angelou
  2. The Road Not Taken
    Robert Frost
  3. If You Forget Me
    Pablo Neruda
  4. Still I Rise
    Maya Angelou
  5. Dreams
    Langston Hughes
  6. Annabel Lee
    Edgar Allan Poe
  7. If
    Rudyard Kipling
  8. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    Robert Frost
  9. Invictus
    William Ernest Henley
  10. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
    Maya Angelou
The Complete List of Top 500 Poems »
[Hata Bildir]