Literature
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Perhaps the most influential of all English tragedies, the play’s full title, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was…
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Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
One of Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest plays, first performed in 1594, it’s his version of slapstick and physical humor. Comedy…
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As You Like It by William Shakespeare
As You Like It is Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy* likely written in 1599, and first performed in 1603. Its most quoted…
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The Unappeasable Host by William Butler Yeats
The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,For they will…
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The Two Trees by William Butler Yeats
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,The holy tree is growing there;From joy the holy branches start,And all the trembling flowers…
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The Song Of The Happy Shepherd by William Butler Yeats
The woods of Arcady are dead,And over is their antique joy;Of old the world on dreaming fed;Grey Truth is now…
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The Valley Of The Black Pig by William Butler Yeats
The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spearsSuddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,And then the clash of fallen horsemen…
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Words For Music Perhaps by William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane And The Bishop Bring me to the blasted oakThat I, midnight upon the stroke,i(All find safety in the…
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Words by William Butler Yeats
I had this thought a while ago,“My darling cannot understandWhat I have done, or what would doIn this blind bitter…
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Wisdom by William Butler Yeats
The true faith discovered wasWhen painted panel, statuary.Glass-mosaic, window-glass,Amended what was told awryBy some peasant gospeler;Swept the Sawdust from the…
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