January 25th Rare Autograph & Book Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2024
Later Poems by W. B. Yeats Published in London by Macmillan and Co., 1924. This is the third printing. Signed and inscribed by the author.
From Yeats's poem called Tom O'Roughley he writes 'For wisdom is a butterfly and not a gloomy bird of prey' W B Yeats Oct 8 1925. A contemporary half-leather and cloth binding. The Poem in Full is : Tom O'Roughley by William Butler Yeats 'Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy,' Or so did Tom O'Roughley say That saw the surges running by. 'And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey. 'If little planned is little sinned But little need the grave distress. What's dying but a second wind? How but in zig-zag wantonness Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?' Or something of that sort he said, 'And if my dearest friend were dead I'd dance a measure on his grave.'
With One of a Kind Collectibles LOA. With Full JSA LOA.
William Butler Yeats AMQS in his book.
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