Another of this poet's works explains that "Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart," and that work's narrator recalls saying "polite meaningless words" to people who were later executed.
This poet described "Heaven blazing into the head: / Tragedy wrought to its uttermost" before"all the drop-scenes drop at once / Upon a hundred thousand stages." Another of this poet's works explains that "Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart," and that work's narrator recalls saying "polite meaningless words" to people who were later executed. The former poem by this author notes, "All things fall and are built again," and describes how (*) "ancient, glittering eyes, are gay." This poet described "Two Chinamen, behind them a third," carved into the title stone of one poem, while in another poem he repeatedly notes, "A terrible beauty is born," in describing the title uprising. Those poems by this man are "Lapis Lazuli" and "Easter, 1916." For 10 points, name this poet who described a place "that is no country for old men" in "Sailing to Byzantium."
This poet described "Heaven blazing into the head: / Tragedy wrought to its uttermost" before"all the drop-scenes drop at once /
William Butler Yeats