#All Things can tempt me #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information All Things can tempt me ======================= Author: William Butler Yeats ---------------------------- ### File Description Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Juliette Maffet Funded by School of History, University College, Cork 1. First draft.Extent of text: 492 words#### Publication CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt (2012) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: E910001-052Availability [RESTRICTED] The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching. #### Sources **Bibliography**2. A bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel\_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html **The edition used in the digital edition**2. William Butler Yeats All Things can tempt me in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 114 ### Encoding #### Project Description CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts #### Sampling Declaration The whole selection. #### Editorial Declaration ##### Correction Text has been proof-read twice. ##### Normalization The electronic text represents the edited text. Lines (or parts of them) reproduced in italics in the printed edition are tagged hi rend="ital". ##### Hyphenation The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained. ##### Segmentation div0= the individual poem, stanzas are marked lg. ##### Interpretation Names of persons (given names), and places are not tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are not tagged. ### Profile Description Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Date range: before 1916.#### Use of language ##### Language: [EN] The poem is in English. ### Revision History * (2012-02-17) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. * (2012-02-01) Juliette Maffet (ed.) * Header created. * (2012-01-23) Juliette Maffet (ed.) * First proofing. * (2012-01-18) Juliette Maffet (file capture) * Text captured by scanning. --- #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-052 ### All Things can tempt me: Author: William Butler Yeats --- p.114 1. All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse— The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil. When I was young, I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet sing it with such airs That one believed he had a sword upstairs; Yet would be now, could I but have my wish, Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.