Literature
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The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole was first published in the Little Review, June, 1917. It was the title poem in…
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The White Birds by William Butler Yeats
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on thefoam of the sea!We tire of the flame of the…
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The Wheel by William Butler Yeats
Through winter-time we call on spring,And through the spring on summer call,And when abounding hedges ringDeclare that winter’s best of…
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The Well And The Tree by William Butler Yeats
The man that I praise,Cries out the empty well,Lives all his daysWhere a hand on the bellCan call the milch-cowsTo…
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Performances of William Shakespeare Plays
THE FIRST PERFORMANCES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PLAYS We cannot be totally accurate about the actual first performance dates of many…
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Publication of William Shakespeare Plays
The section covering Shakespeare the Playwright covers the reasons why Play writers were not held in high esteem and why…
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William Shakespeare Poems
The poems of William Shakespeare are less well known than his plays although his Sonnets are equally as famousDuring the…
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Youth And Age by William Butler Yeats
Much did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.
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The Two Kings by William Butler Yeats
King Eochaid came at sundown to a woodWestward of Tara. Hurrying to his queenHe had out-ridden his war-wasted menThat with…
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To The Rose Upon The Road Of Time by William Butler Yeats
i(Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!)i(Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:)i(Cuchulain battling with…
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