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1:10 That is no country ...

Beautifully beautifully read, Dermot Crowley...

A good reading.

Sailing to Byzantium evokes life and its transit. A great poem.

Beyond the black wall....

Beautifully read.

Profound words, so well read. I listen to this poem when I need to reflect on my being, and this reading never fails me. Thank you, Dermot. Thank you so much. ❤ from Dili, Timor-Leste. Let peace prevail in our much-troubled world.

Best reading I've heard

No country for old men

Best asmr for sleeping❤

I've never considered myself to be a 'poetry person' but some of W B Yeats work really does affect me. After the Brexit referendum and Trump 'winning' the US election, The Second Coming played on loop inside my skull. Whenever I think the world is being turned down hugely incorrect roads, that poem echoes inside me like the siren of an alarm. BTW, is the opening of this poem where Cormac McCarthy got the title for his 'No Country For Old Men'?

Sigue siendo hermosa

I recently spent nearly five weeks In a Dublin hospital. I slipped and cracked six ribs. I am 86 and it takes more time to get over injuries.. I thought about this poem a lot and knowing how well Yeats wrote in his later years agree that that creativity will feed the soul and stem the tide of your mind ageing... if not your body.

So beautifully spoken.

Elaine Cassidy looks like my younger sister's friend

Rest in peace Cormac McCarthy 😢

So well read. Thankyou.

This is wonderful and a timely reminder of how we need to cherish and foster the Irish/USA relationship

Magnificent Dermot. It's impossible to grasp the Greatness of Yeats. He transcends all boundaries .

That was unbelievable. Great reading!

A powerful reading.

Beautifully read. I'm glad the recording engineer didn't remove her breathing. Makes it raw and certainly very human. Once again, beautifully done!

As a 63 year old man - I feel the effect of being pushed aside from Husband/Father/Provider into a stick in a tattered coat. What I felt as my right of occupancy by my strong arm of protection and providing has faded into an eternal complaint of my presence in the very house I labored to provide. No Country for Old Men is a feeling I feel stronger and stronger as I age.

Geez, that Yeats fella sure could turn a pretty phrase (or two)! ;-)

I find that I just want to hear the poem read.

Thank you! Wonderful.

I read it first for class at 17 and 55 years later I can fully understand it.

A magnificent reading!

Touching the sensitivity with which the great poem is recited.Thanks a lot.

Why no interpretation of the meaning of the poem? The loss of the Byzantine Empire is not obviously important to most people

Amazing 👏

No wonder Cormac McCarthy took the line "No country for old men" for his book. Similar themes

Thank you for this, my father tried to show me the greatness of Yeats years ago, I did not appreciate then. But like so many things he showed, as time goes on I see finally what he was trying to teach or show of life.

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This is in all manner of speaking a most powerful poem. Well done in the reading of it.

a timeless classic served well by mr. Crowley

Very commendable, Sir!

haven't read that in years. So glad you shared it with us.

Wonderful!

Why not go back and put the real text in the ribbon, instead of horribly wrong speech recognition software (calibrated to an American accent) wreck the meaning with wrong words?

Brilliant reading by Dermot Crowley.

Unforgettable moving voices.... One of the greatest and most encouraging poem for the aging people like me.

What a wonderful poem, what a wonderful reading. Thanks.

Excellent...passionate...living...

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Im here because odf my greek friend

The poem, the reading of it, as beautiful, as touching, as poignant, as the Byzantium metaphor itself. Bravo!

...Beautiful ...Thankyou