Poetry
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Never Give All the Heart by William Butler Yeats
Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never…
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Narrative And Dramatic The Wanderings Of Oisin by William Butler Yeats
Book I i(S. Patrick.) You who are bent, and bald, and blind,With a heavy heart and a wandering mind,Have known…
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Long-Legged Fly by William Butler Yeats
That civilisation may not sink,Its great battle lost,Quiet the dog, tether the ponyTo a distant post;Our master Caesar is in…
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Lines Written In Dejection by William Butler Yeats
When have I last looked onThe round green eyes and the long wavering bodiesOf the dark leopards of the moon?All…
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Easter by William Butler Yeats
I have met them at close of dayComing with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among greyEighteenth-century houses.I have passed with…
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Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;She passed the salley gardens with little snow-whitefeet.She bid me…
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Demon and Beast by William Butler Yeats
For certain minutes at the leastThat crafty demon and that loud beastThat plague me day and nightRan out of my…
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Death by William Butler Yeats
Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all;Many times he died,Many times rose again.A…
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Cuchulains Fight With The Sea by William Butler Yeats
A man came slowly from the setting sun,To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun,And said, “I am that swineherd whom…
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Cuchulain Comforted by William Butler Yeats
A man that had six mortal wounds, a manViolent and famous, strode among the dead;Eyes stared out of the branches…
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