Oh, love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in… — W.B. Yeats
Oh, love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
1910
★ 1.9Provenance
Current citation
Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.
