Saturday, April 10, 2010

from A Prayer for My Daughter

some of my favorite lines from Yeats' poem, which he wrote on the birth of his daughter:


"May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend"
 
- W. B. Yeats 
 
read the complete poem here: a prayer for my daughter

1 comment:

Unknown said...

May beauty come to mean
That which we find

In ourselves
In each other

Which we can treasrue
Beyond measure

In our hearts