Poetry
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Two Songs Of A Fool by William Butler Yeats
A speckled cat and a tame hareEat at my hearthstoneAnd sleep there;And both look up to me aloneFor learning and…
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Two Songs From A Play by William Butler Yeats
I saw a staring virgin standWhere holy Dionysus died,And tear the heart out of his side.And lay the heart upon…
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Towards Break Of Day by William Butler Yeats
Was it the double of my dreamThe woman that by me layDreamed, or did we halve a dreamUnder the first…
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To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire by William Butler Yeats
While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,My heart would brim with dreams about the timesWhen we bent down above…
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To My Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear by William Butler Yeats
Be you still, be you still, trembling heart;Remember the wisdom out of the old days:Him who trembles before the flame…
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Tom O’Roughley by William Butler Yeats
Though logic choppers rule the town,And every man and maid and boyHas marked a distant object down,An aimless joy is…
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To Ireland In The Coming Times by William Butler Yeats
Know, that I would accounted beTrue brother of a companyThat sang, to sweeten Ireland’s wrong,Ballad and story, rann and song;Nor…
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To Dorothy Wellesley by William Butler Yeats
Stretch towards the moonless midnight of the trees,As though that hand could reach to where they stand,And they but famous…
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To Be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee by William Butler Yeats
I, The poet William Yeats,With old mill boards and sea-green slates,And smithy work from the Gort forge,Restored this tower for…
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Three Marching Songs by William Butler Yeats
Remember all those renowned generations,They left their bodies to fatten the wolves,They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes,Fled to…
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