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When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats This is my favorite poem by W.B. Yeats. The speaker in the poem asks the young woman he loves to remember him when she is "old and grey and full of sleep." He wants her to know that although other men loved her for her beauty or grace, he was the one man who "loved the pilgrim soul" in her. He wants her to regret the fact that she did not return his affections, and to "murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled and paced upon the mountains overhead and hid his face amid a crowd of stars." The image, a four color reduction linoleum block, is a study of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and perfectly accentuates the words of the poem. Printed letterpress in Autumn 2006. 29 copies printed 10 x 16 inches $25

When You Are Old
by William Butler Yeats

This is my favorite poem by W.B. Yeats. The speaker in the poem asks the young woman he loves to remember him when she is "old and grey and full of sleep." He wants her to know that although other men loved her for her beauty or grace, he was the one man who "loved the pilgrim soul" in her. He wants her to regret the fact that she did not return his affections, and to "murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled and paced upon the mountains overhead and hid his face amid a crowd of stars." The image, a four color reduction linoleum block, is a study of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and perfectly accentuates the words of the poem. Printed letterpress in Autumn 2006.

29 copies printed
10 x 16 inches
$25