The Moods by W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) by George Charles Beresford

 

The Moods

by W. B. Yeats

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?