Literature
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For Anne Gregory by William Butler Yeats
“Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow…
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Fergus And The Druid by William Butler Yeats
(Fergus.) This whole day have I followed in the rocks,And you have changed and flowed from shape toshape,First as a…
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Father And Child by William Butler Yeats
She hears me strike the board and sayThat she is under banOf all good men and women,Being mentioned with a…
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Fallen Majesty by William Butler Yeats
Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,And even old mens eyes grew dim, this hand alone,Like some…
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Ephemera by William Butler Yeats
“Your eyes that once were never weary of mineAre bowed in sotrow under pendulous lids,Because our love is waning.”And then…
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Ego Dominus Tuus by William Butler Yeats
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow streamUnder your old wind-beaten tower, where stillA lamp burns on beside the…
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Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
I met the Bishop on the roadAnd much said he and I.‘Those breasts are flat and fallen now,Those veins must…
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Conjunctions by William Butler Yeats
If Jupiter and Saturn meet,What a cop of mummy wheat!The sword’s a cross; thereon He died:On breast of Mars the…
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Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites by William Butler Yeats
Come gather round me, Parnellites,And praise our chosen man;Stand upright on your legs awhile,Stand upright while you can,For soon we…
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Closing Rhymes by William Butler Yeats
While I, from that reed-throated whispererWho comes at need, although not now as onceA clear articulation in the airBut inwardly,…
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