If these quotes show how conscious Yeats was of using common idiom, they also leave some questions, especially about "Adam's Curse." For one thing, the image and language of the ending ("weary-hearted," "hollow moon") still seems Victorian or Pre-Raphaelite. It's almost as if the common idiom throughout has "earned" Yeats the kind of language he used more liberally earlier in his writing life.

Peter, don't you think the Victorian language is of a piece with the speaker's comment that he "strove / To love you in the old high way of love"?