The Magi
William Butler Yeats * Track #26 On Responsibilities and Other Poems
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Album Responsibilities and Other Poems
- #1Introductory Rhymes
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- #2
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- #3To a Wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it proved the People wanted Pictures
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- #4September 1913
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- #5To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing
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- #6Paudeen
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- #7To a Shade
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- #8When Helen Lived
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- #9The Attack on ’The Playboy of the Western World,’—1907
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- #10The Three Beggars
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- #11The Three Hermits
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- #12Beggar To Beggar Cried
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- #13Running to Paradise
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- #14The Hour before Dawn
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- #15The Well and the Tree
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- #16The Realists
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- #17I The Witch
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- #18II The Peacock
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- #19To a Child dancing in the Wind
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- #20A Memory of Youth
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- #21Fallen Majesty
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- #22Friends
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- #23The Cold Heaven
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- #24That the Night come
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- #25An Appointment
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- #26The Magi
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- #27The Dolls
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- #28A Coat
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- #29Closing Rhymes
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- #30Green Helmet: The Consolation
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- #31No Second Troy
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- #32Against Unworthy Praise
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- #33A Drinking Song
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- #34The Coming of Wisdom with Time
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- #35On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians
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- #36To a Poet
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- #37Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
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- #38At The Abbey Theatre
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- #39These are the Clouds
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- #40At Galway Races
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- #41A Friend’s Illness
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- #42All Things Can Tempt Me
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- #43The Young Man’s Song
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- #44The Hour-glass
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The Magi by William Butler Yeats
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“The Magi” uses the image of the magi visiting Jesus from the common Christmas story, but, rather than coming to adore the birth of Jesus, they stare at the ground, being unsatisfied with “Calvary’s turbulence,” that is, unsatisfied with the waters and spirit given to them from His birth and subsequ...
The Magi Annotated
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of silver hovering side by side,
And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.