Literature
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Swifts Epitaph by William Butler Yeats
Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his breast.Imitate him if you dare,World-besotted traveller; heServed human liberty.
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Sweet Dancer by William Butler Yeats
The girl goes dancing thereOn the leaf-sown, new-mown, smoothGrass plot of the garden;Escaped from bitter youth,Escaped out of her crowd,Or…
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Supernatural Songs by William Butler Yeats
Ii(Ribb at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn)Because you have found me in the pitch-dark nightWith open book you ask…
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Stream And Sun At Glendalough by William Butler Yeats
Through intricate motions ranStream and gliding sunAnd all my heart seemed gay:Some stupid thing that I had doneMade my attention…
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Statistics by William Butler Yeats
“Those Platonists are a curse,” he said,“God’s fire upon the wane,A diagram hung there instead,More women born than men.”
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Spilt Milk by William Butler Yeats
We that have done and thought,That have thought and done,Must ramble, and thin outLike milk spilt on a stone.
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Solomon To Sheba by William Butler Yeats
Sang Solomon to Sheba,And kissed her dusky face,All day long from mid-dayWe have talked in the one place,All day long…
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Solomon And The Witch by William Butler Yeats
And thus declared that Arab lady:“Last night, where under the wild moonOn grassy mattress I had laid me,Within my arms…
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Slim Adolescence That A Nymph Has Stripped by William Butler Yeats
Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,Peleus on Thetis stares.Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid,Love has blinded him with…
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Sixteen Dead Men by William Butler Yeats
O but we talked at large beforeThe sixteen men were shot,But who can talk of give and take,What should be…
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