- 《当你老了》(When You Are Old) 这首诗是叶芝对爱人麦克斯·吉尼斯的深情告白。诗中，叶芝将爱情比喻为一场永恒的旅程，即使时光流逝，爱意依然如初。
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nod by the fire, take it down, and read it by the dim and yellow light,
And many a flower will be born to love you.
And many a bird will sing your name;
And you will love the sun for me.
And you will love the sun for me.
- 《库利的野天鹅》(The Wild Swans at Coole) 这首诗描绘了一幅宁静的湖泊和飞翔的野天鹅的景象。叶芝通过这幅画面，表达了对逝去时光的怀念和对自然的敬畏。
The trees are in their autumn colour,
The trees are falling, leaves are sifting down
Like snow upon the Lake of Coole;
And I have heard an ancient, solemn strain,
Coming from the past, or perhaps the future.
- 《爱的哲学》(The Philosophy of Love) 在这首诗中，叶芝探讨了爱的本质和复杂性。他通过一系列的比喻和隐喻，表达了对爱的深刻理解。
Love is not all: it is not sweet to have
And sing a sukdy song of love,
And live alone in rooms like forms by the shore
Of the sad sea of Life;
For love is not life, though life be love.
- 《拜伦的阴影》(Byzantium) 这首诗以拜伦的生平为背景，探讨了死亡、爱情和永恒的主题。叶芝通过这首诗，表达了对拜伦的崇敬和对其命运的感慨。
The second head of Byzantium, the Bride of Pallas,
The mother of her son, the sister of her father.
She is of the old days; she is of the old days.
- 《拜伦》(Byronic) 这首诗以拜伦为原型，描绘了一个孤独、忧郁的诗人形象。叶芝通过这首诗，表达了对拜伦内心世界的理解和同情。
He walks in his shadow; he has no soul
To answer when the bell of the city tolls.
- 《记忆中的伊莎贝拉》(Isabel, Memory of Memory) 这首诗以叶芝的初恋对象伊莎贝拉为原型，回忆了那段美好的时光。诗中充满了对爱情的向往和对过去的怀念。
There is no sound of the city, no sound of the city,
No sound of the city through the casements high,
No sound of the city, only the voice of the sea.
- 《哀歌》(Lament for the Men of Ireland) 这首诗是叶芝对爱尔兰人民遭受苦难的哀悼。诗中充满了对逝去生命的怀念和对未来的担忧。
The men of Ireland are dead, the men of Ireland are dead,
And the green fields of Ireland are red with their blood.
- 《秋日颂歌》(To autumn) 这首诗以秋天的景象为背景，表达了对自然之美的赞美和对生命的思考。叶芝通过这首诗，传达了一种对人生和自然的深刻感悟。
Come, my friends, I'll make you a poem of autumn;
Of the year that is rich and full of labor,
For the harvest is past, and the leaves are falling,
And the summer is gone into the West.
这些诗歌展现了叶芝深邃的内心世界和丰富的想象力。通过这些诗歌，我们可以感受到他对爱情、生命和自然的独特见解。