The complete online text of The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats.

William Butler Yeats, probably the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and certainly one of its most complex men, was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount on 13 June 1865. He was the eldest of the four surviving children, all brilliant, of a...

William Butler Yeats , probably the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and certainly one of its most complex men, was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount on 13 June 1865. He was the eldest of the four surviving children, all brilliant, of a...

Although the reputation of William Butler Yeats rests primarily on his poetry, the drama remained one of the central concerns throughout his long career. As he explained in 1917, "I need a theatre; I believe myself to be a dramatist; I desire to show eve...

Chrysanthemums may be autumn's cover girl in the horticulture world, but roses will always be the reigning garden beauty for Charles Anctil. With favorable weather, his roses bloom continually from mid-May into November. Looking like a breath of spring air in defiance of the...

My handful of tea roses has not been worth growing, I could say with some justice and some feeling, but then this is their first year. Besides, I take an unworthy delight in seeing hybrid tea roses all over the city defoliated from...