Through the prism of these words I look forward to a moment when I am looking back at the sweetness of life, seeing it stretching out behind me, but not ahead of me. When that moment arrives, I will recite this poem and move confidenttly toward whatever awaits, grateful to be accompanied by these words.

@JaceJacobs

2y↑2

I can appreciate these words. Beautiful comment.

@stevenlight5006

2y↑2

So be it

@julieharris7380

51w↑4

I am reading this poem at my fathers funeral tomorrow

@marycronin7447

28w

Don't forget to see the magic of this moment through the prism of the beautiful poem

@RebelofIreland

3y↑9

An Ireland I will always feel part of. The spiritual side of Ireland, where I want to wander in my afterlife. But as for modern Ireland? I left twenty years ago and no longer feel a part of the culture or have an understanding of how and why poeple there think the way they do. . I am a stranger now in strange lands and will remain so. But the Celtic/mystical Ireland? Time, distance and dislocation can never take that from me.

@FairyEncounters

29w↑8

Without doubt the loveliest reading of this beautiful poem I have ever heard. RIP Michael Gambon.

@chrisshir

4y↑59

Yeats and Gambon -- perfection. I watch and listen several times per week ... and get choked up every time.

@dennisthayer2693

5y↑92

I think of my late wife every time I read this poem. I read it quite a bit.

@voicemastery7543

4y↑1

god bless you

@mithunbarman2261

4y↑2

So sorry 🙏 😔 sir, God will never want to do it, ♥

@cosmicman621

...praise be to God...🌈

@LyndaGene

3y↑1

That says so much about the life you had together. May beautiful memories give you peace and strength.

@MindinViolet

5y↑26

Utterly beautiful. I was moved to tears.

@duncanhainsworth5063

29w↑4

RIP Sir Michael Gambon🖤

@Rasselas_Urasawa

7y↑61

dumbledore reading yeats. so awesome

@IllPerc

44w↑3

WASSUP MY TWIZZY

@eamonnmorris5331

5y↑53

"The silver apples of the moon ... the golden apples of the sun ..." what a powerful ending to a magical poem! I've had them in my head for forty years. I hear them best in my imagination/ inner voice ...it's always a little strange when someone else is actually reciting them ... with that said, this is still a pleasing presentation ... voice, visuals and music (how about that swan ... for anyone who knows Yeats' work that piece alone is mindblowing!)

@deanmunzer1456

Owen

@deanmunzer1456

Lydia

@deanmunzer1456

Oilver

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Amelia

@deanmunzer1456

Dad

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@ithila6712

8y↑37

The transient illusions of youth and beauty

@cathyroach546

8y↑13

I was born deaf and my ex-husband had me to listen the Irish songs and I did enjoy the beautiful songs and I like Scottish songs, too. and then when I listened to Herb Albert's songs and then my ex-husband wanted to test me to see if I recognize the American music which he did and he fell out of the chair when I listened to that song and did recognize Herb Albert's song. He was so happy that I can hear the music and recognize Herb's song. Now I hardly listen to any songs after we were divorced and he has passed away. I missed to listen the songs as I have no hearing aids. Smile.

@laurencekeogh4779

NIce.

@ivanoday4635

The human heart is a wild place. This reading reminds me the heart reaches to great heights, and that only by going there, only by way of the heart, the imperatives of the heart, the attachments that break us and form us do we really become human. I'd forgotten. So much of what I'd hunted and lured and trapped and murdered and lost in the eternity of youth, in the moonlight of reason, the sunlight of make believe, science, politics, and craft, until the crunching under my feet became finally unintelligible. So much have I forgotten.

@JaceJacobs

2y↑5

I always have smiles when there is a positive reference to a girl, the Moon, and the Sun. Beautiful poem. Peace, Love, Namaste

@laurencehutchman1748

7y↑19

Stirring rendition of this poignant, haunting early Yeats's poem. Very fine correspondence of the poem with video.

@burakk3567

5y↑20

i discovered this poem under favour of Ray Bradbury. I was in bookstore and i saw his book called "Golden Apples of the Sun" and the book attrached me cause its cover was beautiful and its name caught my attention. i read that author's other books before so i was knowing that book couldn't be bad so I bought it. When i went back home I just saw that poem's last verses on the first page and I googled it and found out that all poem and this video. Now I listen this before sleep

@arlinnjeans1860

2y↑1

Ray Bradbury and his book was how I was introduced to this poem and Yeats' other poetry too! It's cool when one thing you read brings you to other new reading.

@martincollins744

2y↑4

This poem is about an old Irish story of Wandering Aengus. He actually finds the girl at the end after wandering all his lifetime around Ireland.

@johnniejukebox

8y↑28

Sublime.

@SpiritSeekersIL

6y↑41

This is and will always be my favorite poem, ever since discovering it my 9th grade English book.

@hotstixx

6y↑6

Mine too..my dear uncle/father used to quote it in full to me in the later parts of a bottle of red.He was old then and it was of him.Its the finest parts of him and now I feel I've inherited it.Its become a mystical connection now that he has passed.

@Aritul

5y↑2

This is one of my favorite poems as well.

@jacobdillon6288

5y↑3

its flawless, reminds me of my youth but makes me look hard on the present as well

@SpiritSeekersIL

5y↑2

For me it was 4th grade. This poem was in the front of one our lit sections. The imagery captured me as no other poem has.

@Argonaut121

13w

Sublime. Both poet and reader.

@clamont56

7y↑16

This was totally inadvertent. Found when looking for Irish soda bread recipe. It has the same references of Faerie, the golden apples and silver apples in it. Just read about those in some Irish folklore in a novel I am reading. A women has a dream where they are offered by the King of Faerie. Very interesting and nice photography with the silver moon on the water etc.

@oanagrossu1532

5y↑7

splendid clip - beautfiul recitation

@pokemaster1471

24w

I have come back to this a thousand times. It’s balm. Rest well, Michael.

@krackowkid6618

8y↑33

IT'S THE LYRICAL MYSTICISM THAT I FIND ENTRALLING ABOUT THE POEM

@EndlarStudios

7y↑7

You could no nothing about English except minimal knowledge and it would still sound like music

@westernlynx396

7y↑5

Irony

@notinterested100

more irony.

@caitlintervet4399

3y↑3

Great poem , Great voice thank you WB and MG unforgettable.

@alexisfernandez9497

7y↑7

Precioso poema, muy bien recitado, y magnífico vídeo.
Wonderful!

@Jibbs1980

29w↑2

RIP Michael Gambon

@jackibortoft

5y↑9

As a long time admirer of MG I flashed him a smile when I saw him emerging from a secondhand bookshop on the east coast. In return I got a fabulous scowl, So funny, I still think he's brilliant!

@aenguschurch6216

5y↑37

This is where my mom chose my name.

@Declanworld

I presume you've heard of St. Aengus's Church, Donegal: http://www.declanworld.com/photos/burt/images/burt003.jpg

@claireroche4486

23w

Exquisite , so radiant a rendering of this beautiful poem .

Do come to visit Sligo and the places that inspired WB Yeats .

Sincerest thanks .

@mattw8374

3y↑1

Impressive reading overwhelmed by superfluous, background music, blunting the imagery created by the words.

@gulzarahmadturalay3106

5y↑5

wow, adorable voice. He gotta powerful voice.

@diddywahdaddy

29w↑2

Rest In Peace ❤

@IrishTechnicalThinker

4y↑2

Extraordinary experience.

@djbabbotstown

11w

Yeats put prophetic vision into words here. One wonders what dreams or visions he had writing this.

@Currabell

31w↑1

Exquisite

@jman7826

2y↑2

The final stanza is simply numinous. Great reading 👍🏻

@sallyjohnston9766

5y↑3

My favourite Irish poet William Butler Yeats

@eamonnmc1

4y↑2

I love this! Thank You.

@stuartkseels

6y↑6

Lovely. The words, music & voice complement perfectly.

@bobmessier5215

5y↑5

For me it's about glimpsing the Goddess.

@elainegregory3011

3y↑1

Very, very beautiful..

@sweetjolie

8y↑4

Simpfly perfect

@maggiedeveney

8y↑4

Perfect!

@donkelly108

3y↑1

by far my favorite Yeats poem

@darklightwolf3956

5y↑4

Im reading this book and its called The Land of the Silver Apples. And it has this in it.

@53fleury

6y↑1

How wonderful. Absolutely magnificent

@babsclark8572

2y↑2

Michael Macliammor also recorded this.

@_Conzo_

5y↑3

This is amazing.

@daithiholbrook

7y↑2

Perfect intonation !

@dododave1962

5y↑11

why people like poetry

@nicbahn

3y↑1

Dumbledore reading to you and Nicholas Hoopers orchestrating it, just amazing!

@heathensoulirishwhiskey8942

4y↑1

Stunning

@JohnOsCreations

3y↑1

This is beautiful

@belindaashton7633

Truly so beautiful and uplifting

@SilvioBichisecchi

8y↑3

The best!

@RonnieSpam

10w

I love Christy Moore's musical version. Mystical and enchanting. American folk singer Burl Ives was the first person as far as I know who recorded it as a song.

@MrEltonhef

3y↑1

Favourite poem from when I was at school.

@renatobiscetti9343

6y↑1

Bellissima poesia! Bella anche la canzone composta da Donovan.

@stacieolson3078

Beautiful 💕💕💕

@michaelsteane9926

30w↑1

Christie Moore sings this on "Ride On"

@stylusfantasticus

To be listened for years !

@mithunbarman2261

# Nice nice 👍 nice beautiful and finally awesome sir 🙏 ☺ ♥, jai ho! 🌍 🇮🇳 🙏 ☺

@jennief2108

Beautiful )

@MegaGalls

Beautifully narrated

@inessamaria2428

so beautiful

@Currabell

29w

Rest. Such a fine actor.

@sherryhostutler2241

WB Yeats is my favorite today 🎉❤

@TheSaltydog07

26w

Rest well, darling man.

@kankanadas872

Beautiful

@babsclark8572

love this poem

@kushkagirl

gorgeous

@guymustsing

2y↑1

What a master vocalist! Does it get any better than this? Michael is such an inspiration! Thank you for your beauty and skill.

@Milestonemonger

Clint Eastwood's Bridges of Madison County introduced me to Yeats.

@ThePsycoDolphin

4y↑7

Like another commentor here, I first found this through a collection of Ray Bradbury stories. The title struck at me. Then I read the inside inscription and thr visual imagery of golden and silver apples growing on both the Moon and the sun, was so stunning I had to find the rest of the poem.

The rest of the poem, unconnected to those bottom lines, is also agonisingly beautiful. Was it real? Was she a genuine being? Or was it some figment of madness that has been torturing him until old age? Sad either way. It's also, to be less mystical, an experience many people have. Of desperately craving after someone you love, killing yourselves over the agony of it, even though the love you share is as ephemeral as the vision of the golden girl.

@jackiemcgowan2930

this poem was by w.b.yeats (william butler yeats ) a native irish man from co. sligo. this si true as are many more of his poems hes a very good poem writer you should look up more of his poems there really good

@ThePsycoDolphin

3y↑1

@@jackiemcgowan2930 got a big book of his poems a while back. Hes beautiful. I have quite a mixed interest in poems (literary wise, I'm a firm modernist, albeit a disappointed one), I'd usually find this kind of romantic mysticism rather nauseating. But the way he conveys it is so stunning it transcends his rather backwards looking politucs.

@jqv002

4y↑2

So, my 3rd period teacher gave me this poem too memorized in two weeks. She played this video in class and we all laughed hysterically because. . . you may know why. Anyways, wish me luck so i can actually memorize this poem.

@jodykirby5667

4y↑1

Dumbledore be vibing

@alvidema9896

4y↑1

I didn't know Dumbledore knew Yeats' poems

@busalananryanemaeb.1258

3y↑1

I'm reading the Book
The Bridges of Madison County,
(◍•ᴗ•◍)
That's why I'm here.

@jonpopelka

Gambon’s version or Christy’s version…tough to choose. I’ll have both, thank you!

@glennperry1442

4y↑1

Dave Van Ronk's performance of Yeats poem is perfect, sublime, most haunting, (for myself anyway). It's on his 'No Dirty Names' LP, released late '60s. Take a listen on You Tube. Donovan's just lame

@oicaroh

Thank you Dave. You are right. I did not know it by van Ronk, and it is most haunting. In Spain, they would say: “tiene Duende”. Thank you for sharing your thought.

@Hello-ci9ti

29w↑2

Goodbye Sir.

@jacobjones8657

4y↑2

My teacher had assigned us questions to this poem

@genghisthegreat2034

Jacob, tell your teacher that to analyse this poem, is no better than autopsy.

Remind her how a small child tells a story....Full of " ands" and drippings of dreams.

Then tell her to just drink the sound of the long vowels, and write nothing of it all.

@joshuaharper2044

5y↑3

hey thumbs up if that one star trek enterprise episode brought you here too

@lornanormand6963

5y↑2

these beautiful words and this beautiful voice would obviously be entirely inadequate without the racket of the background music that we must now expect and surrender to as an unrequested and imposed addendum to so much of our consume-consume experience nowadays. Lets' just block it out and practice limiting awareness to get by.

@SimonPaxton_VO

10w

One of Yeats' poems most arresting poems has to be 'Aedh -He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' - beautifully touching on the realm of unfulfilled desire and the impact that love can have on our fragile hearts. Simon Paxton has recorded it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGioFVgtvGU

@angelaconnor8917

Fantastic WBY

@eshaanambrose8090

The only reason I like this song is because it reminds me of Dumbledore.

@patrickrianomeara9410

29w

R.I.P. Michael Gambon

@davidhunter6979

3y↑1

I Wonder why actors cannot read poetry. Michael Gambon certainly cannot read this beautiful poem by yeats: his rising inflection on the last syllable in a couple of the lines is weak, amateurish and painful to listen to. His tone is monosyllabic and utterly dry. This is a poem about the most significant event of a man's life, Gambon reads it as if it was a shopping list. The final lines are about hope, and not only hope but determination. In this reading they are inert, Gambon sounds (and looks) hopeless, the polar opposite of the meaning of the words. Poems, especially great poems, resonate with us because they are full of meaning, of energy, of life, of beauty - as this one is. They should be read as if the speaker understands that, with insight and vibrancy. People, even actors, seem to be afraid of poems, afraid to attack them. Better to challenge them - on their own terms - than capitulate in a conservative recital that has the effect of - God help us! - making a fine poem just plain boring.

@genghisthegreat2034

You have spectacularly missed the circumstances in which Michael Gambon recites this poem, but I'm not sure I can help you in it.

There's a reason he looks, and sounds, like he does. If you can find it, you'll understand how only a wanderer understands wandering.

@jasonmackintosh6075

God blessings amens

@AliBaba-bw2xf

very dramatic with feeling

@rubiestelavalencia4586

Megusta escuchar para reflexionar

@MiCHELLEannSPIRESmasterminedAO

❤️

@identitychange5292

Dumbledore gently talking to your ear :D

@imbluepower2708

6y↑4

dumbledore?? Is That You??

@joshuaharper2044

4y↑2

am i the only one that discovered this poem through that one star trek enterprise episode?

@olivers.6511

No, I'm watching it right now. :)

@chelsie388

7y↑5

YASS DUMBLEDORE

@lodafunk5603

The Kettering Incident reminded me of this...

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