Time & Brevity
The Moods
From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
Time & Brevity
Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods,
Has fallen away?
Cite this poem
MLA
Yeats, W. B. “The Moods.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/183/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “The Moods.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/183/.
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