Love poems of William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was a very prolific poet who wrote many poems in his lifetime about many different things. I think it is interesting to read the poems he wrote about love, or rather, the loss of it where he expressed a variety of emotions on his journey to understand himself and his true love.
Yeats was in desperately in love with a woman named Maud Gonne for several years, but unfortunately, she did not return his feelings. She refused to marry him, and Yeats wrote many poems detailing his feelings toward her, almost pleading to her in some, hoping she would realize how much he lov…