Poetry
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The Attack on The Playboy of the Western World, 1907 by William Butler Yeats
Once, when midnight smote the air,Eunuchs ran through Hell and metFrom thoroughfare to thoroughfare,While that great Juan galloped by;And like…
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The Arrow by William Butler Yeats
I thought of your beauty, and this arrow,Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.There’s no man may…
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The Apparitions by William Butler Yeats
Because there is safety in derisionI talked about an apparition,I took no trouble to convince,Or seem plausible to a man…
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That The Night Come by William Butler Yeats
She lived in storm and strife,Her soul had such desireFor what proud death may bringThat it could not endureThe common…
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Symbols by William Butler Yeats
A storm beaten old watch-tower,A blind hermit rings the hour.All-destroying sword-blade stillCarried by the wandering fool.Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,Beauty…
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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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