{
 "id": "w-b-yeats/all-souls-night",
 "title": "All Souls’ Night",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "An Epilogue to A Vision",
 "poet": "W. B. Yeats",
 "poet_slug": "w-b-yeats",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Tower",
 "book_slug": "the-tower",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 10,
 "container": "The Tower",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1928,
  "venue": "The Tower (1928)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/yeats_thetower_1928"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/w-b-yeats_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49608",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32491",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36865",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49609",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49615",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49609",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32233",
   "https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92252",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001776372",
   "https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Dublin_University_Review/fE8wAQAAMAAJ",
   "https://www.google.ie/books/edition/The_Dublin_University_Review/TWUEAAAAQAAJ",
   "https://www.google.ie/books/edition/The_Dublin_University_Review/TFAwAQAAMAAJ",
   "https://www.google.ie/books/edition/The_Irish_Monthly/EMoaAAAAYAAJ",
   "https://archive.org/details/gop-1889",
   "https://archive.org/details/poemsandballads00unkngoog",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000551354",
   "https://archive.org/details/fairytalesirish00yeatrich",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008958226",
   "https://archive.org/details/countesskathleen00yeat",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008883383",
   "https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksofw01yeat",
   "https://archive.org/details/collectedworksin01yeat",
   "https://archive.org/details/collectedworksin02yeatuoft",
   "https://archive.org/details/collectedworksin00yeatuoft",
   "https://archive.org/details/responsibilities00yeatiala",
   "https://books.google.com/books?id=jDI3AAAAIAAJ",
   "https://archive.org/details/robertes00wby/robertes00wby",
   "https://archive.org/details/poemsyeatrich",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001020237"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-21"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 100,
  "n_stanzas": 10,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 52,
  "max_indent": 0
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "Midnight has come and the great Christ Church Bell,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And may a lesser bell, sound through the room;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And it is All Souls’ Night,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For it is a ghost’s right,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "His element is so fine",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Being sharpened by his death,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To drink from the wine-breath",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I need some mind that, if the cannon sound",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From every quarter of the world, can stay",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Wound in mind’s pondering,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Because I have a marvellous thing to say,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A certain marvellous thing",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "None but the living mock,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Though not for sober ear;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "It may be all that hear",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "H⁠⸺’s the first I call. He loved strange thought",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And knew that sweet extremity of pride",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That’s called platonic love,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And that to such a pitch of passion wrought",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nothing could bring him, when his lady died,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Anodyne for his love.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Words were but wasted breath;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "One dear hope had he:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The inclemency",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of that or the next winter would be death.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Two thoughts were so mixed up I could not tell",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Whether of her or God he thought the most,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But think that his mind’s eye,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "When upward turned, on one sole image fell;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And that a slight companionable ghost,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Wild with divinity,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Had so lit up the whole",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Immense miraculous house",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The Bible promised us,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "It seemed a gold-fish swimming in a bowl.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "On Florence Emery I call the next,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Who finding the first wrinkles on a face",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Admired and beautiful,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And knowing that the future would be vexed",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With ’minished beauty, multiplied commonplace,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Preferred to teach a school,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Away from neighbour or friend",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Among dark skins, and there",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Permit foul years to wear",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Hidden from eyesight to the unnoticed end.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Before that end much had she ravelled out",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From a discourse in figurative speech",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "By some learned Indian",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "On the soul’s journey. How it is whirled about,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Wherever the orbit of the moon can reach,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Until it plunge into the sun;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And there, free and yet fast",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Being both Chance and Choice,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Forget its broken toys",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And sink into its own delight at last.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And I call up MacGregor from the grave,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For in my first hard springtime we were friends,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Although of late estranged.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I thought him half a lunatic, half knave,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And told him so, but friendship never ends;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And what if mind seem changed,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And it seem changed with the mind,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "When thoughts rise up unbid",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "On generous things that he did",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And I grow half contented to be blind.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "He had much industry at setting out,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Much boisterous courage, before loneliness",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Had driven him crazed;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For meditations upon unknown thought",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Make human intercourse grow less and less;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They are neither paid nor praised.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But he’d object to the host,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The glass because my glass;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A ghost-lover he was",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And may have grown more arrogant being a ghost.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But names are nothing. What matter who it be,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "So that his elements have grown so fine",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The fume of muscatel",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Can give his sharpened palate ecstasy",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "No living man can drink from the whole wine.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I have mummy truths to tell",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Whereat the living mock,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Though not for sober ear,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For maybe all that hear",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Such thought⁠—such thought have I that hold it tight",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Till meditation master all its parts,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nothing can stay my glance",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Until that glance run in the world’s despite",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To where the damned have howled away their hearts,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And where the blessed dance;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Such thought, that in it bound",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I need no other thing",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Wound in mind’s wandering,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}