Down by The Salley Gardens 🌸 [Down By The Sally Gardens Irish Celtic folk songs music lyrics]

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The speaker recalls a time when he and his love were together by the salley gardens, but now she is gone and he is left with only the memories. Yeats adapted an old Irish folk song and created this melancholic and nostalgic poem. The original title of the poem was “An Old Song Re-Sung” when it was first published in 1889 and later was changed into the present title when it was reprinted in 1895. The poem has been set to music by several composers, including Benjamin Britten, and is often performed as a song. The poem is a good example of Yeats' early use of traditional Irish imagery and themes.

poem

-Down By the Salley Gardens
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


Down by the salley gardens
my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens
with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy,
as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish,
with her would not agree.

In a field by the river
my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder
she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy,
as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish,
and now am full of tears.

music
-Down by The Salley Gardens, https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/
-When you're in trouble, BGM