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To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
Now all the truth is out,Be secret and take defeatFrom any brazen throat,For how can you compete,Being honour bred, with…
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To A Child Dancing In The Wind by William Butler Yeats
I Dance there upon the shore; What need have you to care For wind or waters roar? And tumble out…
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Three Songs To The Same Tune by William Butler Yeats
I Grandfather sang it under the gallows:” Hear, gentlemen, ladies, and all mankind:Money is good and a girl might be…
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Three Songs To The One Burden by William Butler Yeats
The Roaring Tinker if you like,But Mannion is my name,And I beat up the common sortAnd think it is no…
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Three Movements by William Butler Yeats
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand;What are all those…
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The Travail Of Passion by William Butler Yeats
When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide;When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;Our hearts endure the scourge, the…
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The Tower by William Butler Yeats
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM I That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees—…
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The Three Monuments by William Butler Yeats
They hold their public meetings whereOur most renowned patriots stand,One among the birds of the air,A stumpier on either hand;And…
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The Three Hermits by William Butler Yeats
Three old hermits took the airBy a cold and desolate sea,First was muttering a prayer,Second rummaged for a flea;On a…
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The Three Bushes by William Butler Yeats
Said lady once to lover,“None can rely uponA love that lacks its proper food;And if your love were goneHow could…
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