The Loves In The Life Of Yeasts And His Hidden Affairs/ The Good Self Of Georgie Hyde-Lees Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Close you the Maud Gonne chapter,
Iseult too cuts a sorry figure
As for her mother, father and Yeats,
Let us talk about
Georgie Hyde-Lees: 1892 - 1968.

When Yeats was 51 or more than,
After being rejected
By Gonne
And Iseult
When the last ride together
Got cancelled as

We see the outer
And see it not the inner side of the man
We are reading,
Whose affairs cost many a life,
Whose physical lust disturbed it many a life.

And to our awe, wonder and amazement he could,
Could marry even in his old age
Like Thomas Hardy
Though the gap was too
Georgie Hyde-Lees instead of cautions

You do not, do not marry Yeats
And he in the fifties married
A young girl of the twenties,
See the whims and fancies
And the craze of the old lover posing as romantic

Had he been not jolted by rejection
And his failed attempts of winning over,
He would not have got the good lady in reality
More good than Yeats and stormy love life
Who gave birth to Annie and Michael

And had he not Georgie whom called George,
With love through Olivia Shakespeare,
Consummating in 1917
And had he not,
What would it have
We think

But Georgie Hyde-Lees did it,
Gave a life to the ruffled man
Instead of warnings from friends,
"Georgie…you can't. He must be dead"—
Hyde held the hands, accepted it,
But the romantic in the old body
Died it not as
Hyde had to say to him

'When you are dead, people will talk about your love affairs,
but I shall say nothing, for I will remember how proud you were, '
The lines themselves speak of
How temperate and sedate is she,
Georgie Hyde-Lees and how saner than Yeats,
The mentor, life-companion of his!

N.B. A joint poem, inclusive of two titles and two poems.