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He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace by William Butler Yeats
I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake,Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their eyes glimmeringwhite;The North unfolds above them…
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He And She by William Butler Yeats
As the moon sidles upMust she sidle up,As trips the scared moonAway must she trip:“His light had struck me blindDared…
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Hanrahan Speaks To The Lovers Of His Songs In Coming Days by William Butler Yeats
O, Colleens, kneeling by your altar rails long hence,When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer,And smoke from…
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Hanrahan Reproves The Curlew by William Butler Yeats
O, Curlew, cry no more in the air,Or only to the waters in the West;Because your crying brings to my…
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Hanrahan Laments Because Of His Wanderings by William Butler Yeats
O Where is our Mother of PeaceNodding her purple hood?For the winds that awakened the starsAre blowing through my blood.I…
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Parnells Funeral by William Butler Yeats
PARNELL’S FUNERAL Under the Great Comedian’s tomb the crowd.A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blownAbout the sky; where that is…
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Owen Aherne And His Dancers by William Butler Yeats
A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsoughtUpon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,Should…
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On Woman by William Butler Yeats
May God be praised for womanThat gives up all her mind,A man may find in no manA friendship of her…
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On Those That Hated “The Playboy Of The Western World” by William Butler Yeats
Once, when midnight smote the air,Eunuchs ran through Hell and metOn every crowded street to stareUpon great Juan riding by:Even…
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On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats
I think it better that in times like theseA poet keep his mouth shut, for in truthWe have no gift…
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