WB Yeats #NaPodPoMo Reading Poetry: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” 1/30

From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony · Nov 1, 2025 · 6m

You hear a recording of W B Yeats reading his most popular poem.

You hear Paul O’Mahony reading the poem twice.

“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear…