Poetry
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Among School Children by William Butler Yeats
I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and…
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A Memory Of Youth by William Butler Yeats
The moments passed as at a play;I had the wisdom love brings forth;I had my share of mother-wit,And yet for…
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A Man Young And Old:- First Love by William Butler Yeats
Though nurtured like the sailing moonIn beautys murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I thought…
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A Man Young And Old by William Butler Yeats
I I(First Love)Through nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty’s murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil…
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All Souls Night by William Butler Yeats
i(Epilogue to “A Vision’) Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church BellAnd may a lesser bell sound through the…
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Against Unworthy Praise by William Butler Yeats
O Heart, be at peace, becauseNor knave nor dolt can breakWhats not for their applause,Being for a womans sake.Enough if…
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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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