Thanks, Robert. I'm hoping it will keep finding readers. It's easy to see why Yeats would like the verse of "I am agog for foam" and to imagine him relishing its sensuality. Falcon, I agree about MG's "stillness" in Adam's Curse. I think it's partly because Yeats hadn't given up on her -- really -- yet. The sense of weariness, of hollowness in the poem, is partly about being polite, talking around things, keeping an emotional distance. And then the moon makes her commentary. I was thinking more of the Anima Girl as Inspiratrix -- by turns Siren and Maria stella maris -- she who volatilizes projections and "accepts" them like the North Atlantic does the Titanic -- . But I project. * Van Morrison's obscure collection of outtakes, Philospher's Stone, includes a setting of Yeats Crazy Jane On God worth a listen. It is preceded by a Robin Williamson tune about Dylan Thomas and followed by a setting of some poetry of Peter Handke's, both also tasty. But the Yeats & the Belfast Cowboy ...