William Butler Yeates (1865 - 1939) is regarded as one of the most important Irish poets of the 20th century. He was a key figure in the Irish Culture Revival, with his later poems making a significant contribution to Modernism. This poem was written in 1899, so is one of his earlier poems. It reflects his interest in the Irish peasentry and love of nature.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay andwattles made:
Nine bean - rows will I have there, a hivefor the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee - loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all of a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.