The Daily Poem

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

15 min • 30 september 2024

Today’s poem is one of the most-discussed pieces of twentieth-century verse and, love it or hate it, features one of literature’s best extended metaphors for eternal yearnings–the quest for the great and holy city. Happy reading.



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