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To A Young Beauty by William Butler Yeats
Dear fellow-artist, why so freeWith every sort of company,With every Jack and Jill?Choose your companions from the best;Who draws a…
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To A Wealthy Man by William Butler Yeats
You gave but will not give againUntil enough of Paudeens penceBy Biddys halfpennies have lainTo be some sort of evidence,Before…
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To A Squirrel At Kyle-na-gno by William Butler Yeats
Come play with me;Why should you runThrough the shaking treeAs though Id a gunTo strike you dead?When all I would…
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To A Shade by William Butler Yeats
If you have revisited the town, thin Shade,Whether to look upon your monument(I wonder if the builder has been paid)Or…
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To A Poet by William Butler Yeats
You say, as I have often given tongueIn praise of what anothers said or sung,Twere politic to do the like…
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To An Isle In The Water by William Butler Yeats
Shy one, Shy one,Shy one of my heart,She moves in the firelightpensively apart.She carries in the dishes,And lays them in…
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To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
Now all the truth is out,Be secret and take defeatFrom any brazen throat,For how can you compete,Being honour bred, with…
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To A Child Dancing In The Wind by William Butler Yeats
I Dance there upon the shore; What need have you to care For wind or waters roar? And tumble out…
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Three Songs To The Same Tune by William Butler Yeats
I Grandfather sang it under the gallows:” Hear, gentlemen, ladies, and all mankind:Money is good and a girl might be…
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Three Songs To The One Burden by William Butler Yeats
The Roaring Tinker if you like,But Mannion is my name,And I beat up the common sortAnd think it is no…
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