Poetry
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Broken Dreams by William Butler Yeats
THERE is grey in your hair.Young men no longer suddenly catch their breathWhen you are passing;But maybe some old gaffer…
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Breasal The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
Although you hide in the ebb and flowOf the pale tide when the moon has set,The people of coming days…
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Beggar To Beggar Cried by William Butler Yeats
Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,Beggar to beggar cried,…
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Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror…
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Beautiful Lofty Things by William Butler Yeats
Beautiful lofty things: O’Leary’s noble head;My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd:“This Land of Saints,’ and…
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Baile And Aillinn by William Butler Yeats
ARGUMENT. i(Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the)i(Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own land)i(among…
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A Woman Young And Old by William Butler Yeats
IFATHER AND CHILDShe hears me strike the board and sayThat she is under banOf all good men and women,Being mentioned…
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A Woman Homer sung by William Butler Yeats
If any man drew nearWhen I was young,I thought, He holds her dear,And shook with hate and fear.But oh, twas…
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At the Abbey Theatre by William Butler Yeats
Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case.When we are high and airy hundreds sayThat if we hold that flight theyll…
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A Thought From Propertius by William Butler Yeats
She might, so noble from headTo great shapely knees,The long flowing line,Have walked to the altarThrough the holy imagesAt Pallas…
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