Down By The Salley Gardens Comments

A very nostalgic poem about love lost...I was young and foolish and now I am full of tears...how many people's feelings are conveyed in this verse...A poem also turned beautifully into a traditional song and also into a ballad lyrically sung by A.Branduardi in his album Branduardi canta Yeats.

I just love to sing this :)

Lovely simple early poem by Yeats makes a great song lyric. Much prefer this to his later ' I am the great bard of Ireland' stuff.

This is an evergreen leaf in a world bedeviled by infidelity in love. Thanks a million times to Yeats, again and always.