“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams…”

There are Poets -- and then there is William Butler Yeats - a giant among them all .

@Goawaypleasenow

3 ай бұрын

Like Wordsworth There will NEVER be poets to ever walk this earth like their kinds again

@djkelleher3557

2 ай бұрын

So very, very true ❤

Easter 1916 is such a terrifying poem. What a masterpiece

Liam Neeson's voice is divine🥺. He read "Easter" to perfection❤️

@JerrySmith-ih9rd

Жыл бұрын

Yes. It’s a very powerful poem.

@marinacatanese1029

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for these wonderful readings...listening in a rainy night,in Italy

@bluemoon472

9 ай бұрын

Indeed. Brilliant.

@HeatherValentineMsFoodie

8 ай бұрын

This is Cillian Murphy 💝👍 from Peaky Blinders NOT Liam Nielsen

@seumasrouse8590

7 ай бұрын

Since when did Cillian Murphy have an Ulster accent? And who the hell’s Liam Nielsen ? Is he from Tyrone perchance?

Thank you for gathering all these readings in one convenient place. Richard in Canada.

How wonderfully read these epic masterpieces of poetic art are. I love his work.

@concars1234

6 ай бұрын

I could read em better

Life lasts but a little time , In both the heart and in the mind . A fleeting gift from up above , The only thing worth the while is LOVE . For where there is LOVE there is surely life , And where there is not there is but pain and strife . And hell is not some pit filled with fire and dread , Hell is living on after your LOVE is dead . The pain cuts right to the very bone , And though I walk among you I am always alone . And so I wait with baited breath , For the sweet release of death . For only death can set me free , Only death can end my misery .

@barrymoore4470

10 ай бұрын

Wonderfully evocative poem. I'm unfamiliar with it. Is this one by Yeats, or perchance one you yourself composed?

@sharoncravenor2226

Ай бұрын

So true.

@mikeyates7931

Ай бұрын

@@barrymoore4470 This is one of my own poems

I don't consider myself to be competent to comment on the great poetry by such a great poet, WB Yeats. However I have enjoyed listening to his poetry. I salute him. 🎉❤😂

Gratitude

One of a kind how well spoken yes. So relatable.. soft spoken can't help but listen elegance

It took me many years and life pain and a dark soul of the night to truly understand The Second Coming. It’s so beautiful.

Exquisite poems, well read.

When my son was small he loved to hear When you are old. I think it was the slow, lullaby rythm. He has, sadly, learned from schooldays to despise poetry. Even baulking at my gift of Saemus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. I fear that now he is middke aged he will never regain his early love.

@ks7263

8 ай бұрын

I’m imagining the little fellow listening to the words and it made me smile. I think at some point he will remember and he will treasure the memory of how he loved it.

Beautiful. They are beautifully read.

Thoroughly enjoyed these readings.

One more poem should be added to this beautiful collection: Sailing to Byzantium.

@TheBarmbrackthecat

9 ай бұрын

I need to hear the stolen child

@diogenesagogo

8 ай бұрын

Oh yes! "A tattered coat upon a stick ..."

@Goawaypleasenow

3 ай бұрын

One of my favorite

Simply fabulous

Wonderful! Thank you.

Beautiful, thank you.

Wonderful. The Song of Wandering Aengus is spine tingling however well you know it, Perfect selection although I would add In Memory Con Markowiz and Eva Gore-Booth a masterpiece.

Lovely thank you .

Perfect editing. Timely. Well done. Thank you.

Well done. Thanks.

These are fantastic

Thank you for this video. ❤

Thank you.

Like the voice behind the readings.

Beautiful. All I am a pianist so I found the music to be equally beautiful as the poems.

Perfect ❤️

This is brilliant 🤩

"The Second Coming" is even more poignant now than when it was penned.

Wonderful❤

Perfection 💕

This is amazing

Well done

Liam Neeson Easter 1916 to perfection .

goosebumps

Really love this post but would love it more if you add the readers' names to the credits!

@wellread8320

Жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ Tim I tried my best, I really tried my best, Jesus Christ Tim

I wish there was a list of the readers' names.

@trickster6669

3 ай бұрын

Well I can take a wild guess at the fifth one 😅

Poem is a feeling

I recognise "When I am old" as being Cillian Murphy. I recognise Jeremy Irons as the reciter of "Leda and the Swan". Magnificent recitals both. Liam Neeson recites "Easter 1916" beautifully. Is it James Stewart, the Actor who recites "The Wild Swans at Coole"? I can see the face of the reader of "The Song of Wandering Aengus" but fail to recall the name. Sadly I can not recognise any others. Wonderful collection. Thank you

@michaelgaskell7408

7 ай бұрын

You're supposed to listen to the poems,not guess who the readers are.The English can't read Irish poetry,as proven by the second reader.

@biggles5633

7 ай бұрын

Oh but I did! Very much so! I know these poems ... and take joy at how the special treatment of each and every recital voice may affect the impact, the meaning through the delivery of the words. Attaching the voice to an individual helps even more when one knows their work on the stage or screen. Strange that you feel or claim to know what my takeaway from these works are; I guess you have ESP or are an expert in mental telepathy. With such a limited view, may I suggest you stick to television.

@genghisthegreat2034

7 ай бұрын

Sam Neill on Inishfree ?

I just wanted to hear it again with out the lecture

I wonder why is there only few subscribers in this great channel!?

"When you are old" Cilian Murphy ❤❤❤

Wow 🎉

The White Birds I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die. A weariness comes from those dreams, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose; Ah, dream not of them, my beloved the flame of the meteor that goes, Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew: For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you! - W.B. Yeats Love Yeats poetry. ✝️❤️

He missed my all time favourite, The Cold Heaven.

Could anyone please tell me which version of Gymnopedie no.1 is playing over Leda and the Swan? The one linked is incorrect. Thanks!

Thank you! At last! The Song of Wandering Aengus and He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven (two extremely special poems for me) are read similarly to how I like to phrase them so am surprised when renditions that lack the space and emotion. Do you know who reads those two?

@cusack4482

Жыл бұрын

Try this for a beauty kzread.info/dash/bejne/dI2Wj9OIe66pYKg.html

@espadasagrada6573

Жыл бұрын

The song of wandering... in which book can i read it ??? Thanks !

@janmcintyre8595

Жыл бұрын

It was originally published in "The Wind Among The Reeds", but it would be in many collections, I think.

@espadasagrada6573

Жыл бұрын

@@janmcintyre8595 Thank you so much 💙🐦

@TheBarmbrackthecat

9 ай бұрын

@@espadasagrada6573 do you want to hear it sung also? Christy Moore does and awesome version

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Cillian murphy when you are old

GOOD

I forgot how good he was...years ago I wrote about his resting place under Ben bulbin

Who read When you are old? It's a beautiful performance.

@DiamondLil

8 ай бұрын

Cillian Murphey

@karinameadows4277

2 ай бұрын

Cillian Murphy

A bit' to much music, but' it's alright. Good narration, clear' & understandable.

"Among School Children" and "Sailing to Byzantium" didn't make the top ten? I demand a recount!

Yeats, bourbon, a dying fire and a starless windy night in the mid south of North America. Oh God this is good. Yeats. Yes. Oh yes. Very good indeed.

OK. We need to have a wrestling match about their order, etc. ;) I've been to where he's buried and it is a fitting memorial. The church has been part of his family's professional preaching history.

Among School Children -- maybe Yeats' masterpiece.

Also well worth, check out Mike Scott's great record

the readings are moving. the music is unrelenting and distracting. Any thoughts on giving us listeners an option to mute the music??

I wish there was no music put, otherwise nice reading

I agree, the music distracts...

One of Yeats' poems most arresting poems has to be 'Aedh -He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' - beautifully touching on the realm of unfulfilled desire and the impact that love can have on our fragile hearts. Simon Paxton has recorded it here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qHud0aiPl9fcd7g.html

For those who wish to reach the wall in early days.,..can only be done Through a true fasting 😊❤😊

Why don’t you post the readers name?

Liam reading "Easter'....Ill find you, I will find you...hard not to picture this..

Does anyone know who read When You are Old? I think I'm in love.

@karinameadows4277

2 ай бұрын

Cillian Murphy

Excellent set of readings. Pity about the soulless set of adverts in the middle of " The Lake Isle Of Innisfree " Typical KZread, I'd almost sware they did it deliberately.

Can we acknowledge that Estuary English and Yeats are not compatible?

@jwsuicides8095

9 ай бұрын

I'm referring to The Second Coming reading, btw.

We were all bonny once.

I wish Cillian Murphy, read them all! 0:06

@ronnieince4568

Жыл бұрын

Adrian Dunbar was one if the readers

@erinzgirl66

Жыл бұрын

Liam Neeson with Cillian. Murphy, Irish voices only.

The reader of Lake Isle of Innisfree has changed the words of Yeats’ poem.

We need translation to Portuguese or Spanish, please.

Can anyone identify the readers please 🙏?

@BGKsenija

Жыл бұрын

Yes pls if anyone knows pls share

@adriannapatterson2987

Жыл бұрын

I am not sure about all of them, but I'm fairly certain that Leda and the swan is read by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Easter is read by Liam Neeson. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help!

@zuliacha9306

9 ай бұрын

When You are Old by Cillian Murphy Easter by Liam Neeson

@belpit66

7 ай бұрын

Leda and the Swan is read by Jeremy Irons.

Where are you?

translated from Ronsard.

Where is The Stolen Child?

@jimnewcombe7584

Жыл бұрын

That isn't among his best. Where, however, is Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium, and Among School Children?

@barrymoore4470

10 ай бұрын

@@jimnewcombe7584 Even though "The Stolen Child" is not mature Yeats, it's still a wonderful, beguiling work. Agree about the other poems cited deserving inclusion as well. With such a great poet as Yeats, it's hard to whittle down his legacy to a mere handful of masterpieces.

I must arise and go now etc

Leda, and her swan, an indifferent beak and that randy rascal Will. .. ...

🫂💤❄️🕊️🤍

These readers are exquisite. I must add for my part, that the musical accompaniment is banal and even distracting from the art of those readers.

@stephenhardy312

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I tend to agree; I find the videos featuring infant macaque monkeys is a case in point.❤ The music just spoils the❤ natural sounds of the little monkeys and of their immediate environment.

@axismundi8

4 ай бұрын

The reading of poetry is it's own music. These inappropriate musical backgrounds are an irritating interference and disrespectful of the poetry. I understand they mean well but it's just plain wrong.

@Alwayz1999

3 ай бұрын

@@axismundi8I’m just grateful these gems are still being appreciated and available ❤

@oelolop2136

2 ай бұрын

I would have to disagree, the mood and ambiance set by the music is amazing. More so in the rests between pieces it gives you something to listen while thinking.

What's that poem about a farmer standing on a bridge shooting at the British? That's a good one I never liked the British

As a musician and soundtrack composer - why do you need music for these wonderful words? Would you add that to Shakespeare? It's distracting - let the poetry do its job!

@wellread8320

4 ай бұрын

Shut up weirdo, there's plenty of readings of his poetry on KZread without music. Some people prefer music in the background so I went through the bother of putting together a compilation with music. To you and everyone else who doesn't like the music, just search for other readings and most of them won't have music. Moron.

@tomwithers3416

4 күн бұрын

Who read Lake Isle of Innisfree?

No readers names, pity

Begorrah and bedad! Dems moighty noice pomes, is dem

Innisfree... Thats what happens when you dont catch bent coppers!

Read of 2nd coming needs more saliva

Aren’t these all Yeats early poems? That’s dull.

Biden cited today Easter 1916

Don't need the mawkish piano.

Lose the music

WISH NO MUSIC ADDED SO COULD HEAR BETTER TOO AAAAAHHHHH

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