Literature
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A First Confession by William Butler Yeats
I admit the briarEntangled in my hairDid not injure me;My blenching and trembling,Nothing but dissembling,Nothing but coquetry. I long for…
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Aedh Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats
The powers whose name and shape no living creature knowsHave pulled the Immortal Rose;And though the Seven Lights bowed in…
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A Dialogue Of Self And Soul by William Butler Yeats
(My Soul) I summon to the winding ancient stair;Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,Upon…
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A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
That crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew…
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A Cradle Song by William Butler Yeats
The Danann children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,For they will…
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Where There Is Nothing There Is Godby William Butler Yeats
The little wicker houses at Tullagh, where the Brothers were accustomed to pray, or bend over many handicrafts, when twilight…
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Limitations of Benevolence by Julia Ward Howe
Limitations of Benevolence was retrieved from the anthology, Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Poetry and Prose by American Authors…
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Methinks My Friends Grow Beauteous in My Sight by Julia Ward Howe
This poem was written when Ms. Howe was 72 or 73 years old (1892-1893). It was published in her daughters’…
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Mother’s Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe
Arise then…women of this day!Arise, all women who have hearts!Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!Say firmly:“We will…
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Our Country by Julia Ward Howe
This poem was written in 1867, published in her daughters’ biography, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), which earned Laura E. Richards…
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