William Butler Yeats Lovers Quotations

A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.

for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.