This author of "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" tells the reader to "take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once" in the poem "When You Are Old.
A poem by this author remembers a man who "loved his learning better than mankind" named Lionel Johnson. This author of "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" tells the reader to "take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once" in the poem "When You Are Old." In another poem, he laments that he can "but enumerate old themes" and resolves to lie down in "the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." In another poem by this author, the speaker observes "nine-and-fifty" of the title birds swimming. This poet of "The Circus Animals' Desertion" also wrote a poem in which a "rough beast  slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." For 10 points, name this poet of "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "The Second Coming."
A poem by this author remembers a man who "loved his learning better than mankind" named Lionel Johnson.
William Butler Yeats