Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" and "Meditations in Time of Civil War."
One of this man's early poems uses the phrase "Master of the still stars and of the flaming door" to describe "The Valley of the Black Pig," while another notes "The fascination of what's difficult/ Has dried the sap out of my veins." One of his war poems notes "We, who seven years ago/ Talked of honour and of truth,/ Shriek with pleasure if we show,/ The weasel's twist, the weasel's tooth," and another implores "Come build in the empty house of the stare"; those are (*) "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" and "Meditations in Time of Civil War." In addition to referring to his "Decrepit age that has been tied to me/ As to a dog's tail," leaving him "A tattered coat upon a stick," his later work sees him dream "of a Ledaean body, bent/ Above a sinking fire" while describing his school inspections, and also describing "A sudden blow: the great wings beating still" in another poem that plays on the same myth. For 10 points, name this poet of "Among School Children," "The Stolen Child" and "Easter, 1916."
One of this man's early poems uses the phrase "Master of the still stars and of the flaming door" to describe "The Valley of the Black Pig," while another notes "The fascination of what's difficult/ Has dried the sap out of my veins.
William Butler {Yeats}