Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Robert Pinsky reads a W.B. Yeats poem in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. ROBERT PINSKY: It's interesting that the great poet of Ireland, a country long associated with strife and troubles, should have written a poem containing one of the best-known uses in poetry of the word "peace."Here is William Butler Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree:"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there of clay and wattles made:Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,And live alone in the bee-loud glade.And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,Dropping from the veils of morning to where the cricket sings;There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,And evening full of the linnet's wings.I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,I hear it in the deep heart's core.