 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 psl.
...'linked by a gold chain each to each' — as his imagination soars into the poem's final question: But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious,...when I awake some day To find they have flown away? While Yeats's fortunes were rising, Lady Gregory's were falling. In January 1918, her only son was... | |
 | Vidagdha Meredith Bennett - 1991 - 270 psl.
...lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they...when I awake some day To find they have flown away? It may be seen from this poem that Yeats is developing several of the essential lyrical features that... | |
 | Alice L. Price - 1994 - 204 psl.
...lover by lover, they paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest wander where they will, Attend upon them still "The Wild Swans at Coole" William Butler Yeats SWANS OF MYTH, LEGEND, FOLKLORE, AND ART It is late... | |
 | the late M. L. Rosenthal - 1997 - 379 psl.
...lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still. Yeats's full prosodic virtuosity is seen in this penultimate stanza. With no loss of rhythmic continuity,... | |
 | Alain Niderst - 1994 - 250 psl.
...lover by lover, They paddle in thé cold, Companiable streams or climb thé air, Their heurts hâve not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still. dans 57 poèmes, trad. J. Briat, Paris, Ed. W. Blake and co., 1989, pp. 108-109. pensée mythique procède... | |
 | Bernard Brugière - 1995 - 344 psl.
...dans une tradition que Yeats aurait pu hériter de François Villon, celle de Vubi sunt médiéval : Among what rushes will they build, By what lake's edge or pool Delight men's eyes when I awake sortie day To fmd they have flown away ?2 (323) La seconde amorce pratiquement le poème de clôture... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 524 psl.
...lover by lover. They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will. Attend upon them jti//.11 The same interpretive teclmique — that of attributing significance to every detail — is,... | |
 | Alexander Norman Jeffares - 1997 - 504 psl.
...fifty swans. And the poem ends : But now they drift on the still water Mys terious , beauti f ul ; Among what rushes will they build, By what lake's...when I awake some day To find they have flown away? Because they are so beautiful they are to him visitants and have the transitoriness of his own delight... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 1996 - 296 psl.
...lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air. Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will. Attend upon them still. In the revised version the tense question tightens up the poem, and throws the mind toward an unimaginable... | |
 | James Olney - 1998 - 456 psl.
...them miraculously endowed with stillness in all its forms, tenses, and meanings: Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they...they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful. . . . That such stillness, such yet-ness and constancy, such immobile movement and speaking silence,... | |
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Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still. But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful;... 
