document.write('googletag.defineSlot(\"\/111100742\/home_wide_skyscraper\", [160, 600], \"skyscrapper\").addService(googletag.pubads());'); Her father was from a wealth Irish family and in 1882 she joined him in Dublin.. Maude Gonne's father died in 1886 and left her financially independent. Read about other Great Irish Romances at our Grá XOXO headquarters page. The following year, their son, Seán MacBride, was born. Having taken on a fatherly role in the life of young Iseult, then fifteen, he remarked at one point that he could easily have had a daughter her age. Yeats vowed to win her round and had proposed to her another three times by the early 1900s. Iseult is less well known than her mother though her life story is equally dramatic, in a different sort of way. The next year, Yeats explored rather eloquently in his journal of his perceptions of what he considered to be Maud’s internal conflict. After her husband was executed in Dublin in 1916 for his part in the Easter Rising, Gonne felt it was safe for her to return to Ireland and Yeats proposed to her for the final time. When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, and loved your beauty with love false or true, but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled and paced upon the mountains overhead; The final resting place of William Butler Yeats at the foot of Ben Bulben, County Sligo (Photo courtesy of Mel McDermott). Yeats later wrote that it was then that the two shared their first actual kiss. document.write('