Do you know the name and author of this poem?

Question

Probably really famous, and I'm ashamed I cant' remember it. Would like to find and reread it. Big help if you can answer. It goes something like this from what I remember "Although I shelter from the storm under this broken tree, my chair was nearest to the fire in every company, 'ere time transfiguered me."

You all are amazing. I remembered it from college, many moons ago. I wanted to send it in a card to my niece who is turning 21!

Answer 1

William Butler Yeats

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/y/yeats/william_butler/y4c/complete.html

Answer 2

Oh, that's not fair, I knew the answer too and they beat me to it.
So can I share a poem I like with you? It is called

The Sunlight on the Garden

The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold,
When all is told
We cannot beg for pardon.

Our freedom as free lances
Advances toward its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets and birds descend;
And soon my friend,
We shall have no time for dances.

The sky was good for flying
Defying the church bells
And every evil iron
Siren and what it tells:
The earth compels,
We are dying, Egypt, dying

And not expecting pardon,
Hardened in heart anew,
But glad to have sat under
Thunder and rain with you,
And grateful too
For sunlight on the garden

Louis Macniece 1907-63

Nice huh?

Answer 3

It's by Yeats, but t's "The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner."

Answer 4

The Rose, and it's by Yeats.