Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.

Readings

W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All The Heart' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
Select reading
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All The Heart' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Dominic West
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Rupert Graves
W.B. Yeats: 'Never Give All the Heart' read by Patrick Kennedy
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