...but is clearly revealed in a poem which neighbors on SL in The Rose cycle, "The Rose of the World": Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these...one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died. (1957:111) 19.41. Not only phraseological but also versificational features reveal the affinity between...

...but is clearly revealed in a poem which neighbors on SL in The Rose cycle, "The Rose of the World": Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these...one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died. (1957:111) 19.41. Not only phraseological but also versificational features reveal the affinity between...

...princes, and later, as Yeats's own female "Rose of the World," She has endured while, because of Her, "Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, / And Usna's children died." As Swinburne's Faustine, too, She is a woman whose "bitter and vicious loveliness" suggests "the transmigration...

...another Troy for her to burn?'38 — brings into intense focus the opening statement of the former: For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,...betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam ..." In both poems 'Troy' is used to symbolize the heroic past. In 'The Rose of the World' it is contrasted...

...his earliest poems, The Rose of the World', he had first announced this theme, again of Maud Gonne: Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these...one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died. The archetype of 'this lonely face' outlives and underlies the changing catastrophes of history, is...

...'s beauty is cosmic, eternal, divine, that her red lips are the same as those of Helen and Deirdre: Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these...one high funeral gleam, and Usna's children died. The consequences of Helen's beauty are indeed terrible, but are achieved with heroic style: because...

...fed. (1. 31-32) CMoP; FaBoTw; HAP; LiTB; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; PoE; PPP; Prim The Rose of the World 121 vering me to a new identity, Flames and ether making...playing out lightning to strike what is hardly differe 122 He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet. BrPo; CMoP; MoAB; MoBrPo; NAEL-2...

...verse is wistful and melancholy, an ae'rial murmur of sad things without any affectation. Who dreams that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips...one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died. From verse so stately turn to this quite humble, simple poem, the 'Lamentation of the Old Pensioner',...

...Rose of the World" (CP 41) is not lacking in this regard. First, the poem evokes a tragic melancholy: Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these...one high funeral gleam. And Usna's children died. The sorrow from the earlier poems remains, but now it is connected to the sense of a mythical past...

...homesickness. 4 A slight misquotation from Yeats's poem on Helen of Troy and Deirdre, 'The Rose of the World': 'Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? / For these red lips, with all their mournful pride . . . Troy passed away . . . And Usna's children died.' 5 Lines from Mangan's 'My Dark Rosaleen'. Again,...