William Butler Yeats
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The Hour Before Dawn by William Butler Yeats
A one-legged, one-armed, one-eyed man,A bundle of rags upon a crutch,Stumbled on windy CruachanCursing the wind. It was as muchAs…
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The Host Of The Air by William Butler Yeats
ODriscoll drove with a song,The wild duck and the drake,From the tall and the tufted reedsOf the drear Hart Lake.…
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The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats
The host is riding from KnocknareaAnd over the grave of Clooth-na-bare;Caolte tossing his burning hairAnd Niamh calling Away, come away:Empty…
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The Heart Of The Woman by William Butler Yeats
O what to me the little roomThat was brimmed up with prayer and rest;He bade me out into the gloom,And…
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The Hawk by William Butler Yeats
Call down the hawk from the air;Let him be hooded or cagedTill the yellow eye has grown mild,For larder and…
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The Harp Of Aengus by William Butler Yeats
Edain came out of Midhir’s hill, and layBeside young Aengus in his tower of glass,Where time is drowned in odour-laden…
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The Gyres by William Butler Yeats
The gyres! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth;Things thought too long can be no longer thought,For beauty dies of…
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The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats
Poets with whom I learned my trade,Companions of the Cheshire Cheese,Heres an old story Ive re-made,Imagining twould better pleaseYour ears…
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The Great Day by William Butler Yeats
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The…
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The Gift Of Harun Al-Rashid by William Butler Yeats
Kusta Ben Luka is my name, I writeTo Abd Al-Rabban; fellow-roysterer once,Now the good Caliph’s learned Treasurer,And for no ear…
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