I am worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;
And all day long I look
Upon this lady's beauty
As though I had found in a book
A pictured beauty,
Pleased to have filled the eyes
Or the discerning ears,
Delighted to be but wise,
For men improve with the years;
And yet, and yet,
Is this my dream, or the truth?
O would that we had met
When I had my burning youth!
But I grow old among dreams,
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams.
Initially home schooled, Yeats attended the Godolphin primary school in London begining in 1877 when he was 11
years old. An early school report describes his performance as "only fair. Perhaps better in Latin than in any other subject. Very poor in spelling."
