William Butler Yeats
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When Helen Lived by William Butler Yeats
We have cried in our despairThat men desert,For some trivial affairOr noisy, insolent, sport,Beauty that we have wonFrom bitterest hours;Yet…
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Whence Had They Come? by William Butler Yeats
Eternity is passion, girl or boyCry at the onset of their sexual joy“For ever and for ever’; then awakeIgnorant what…
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What Was Lost by William Butler Yeats
I sing what was lost and dread what was won,I walk in a battle fought over again,My king a lost…
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What Then? by William Butler Yeats
His chosen comrades thought at schoolHe must grow a famous man;He thought the same and lived by rule,All his twenties…
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What Magic Drum? by William Butler Yeats
He holds him from desire, all but stops his breathinglestprimordial Motherhood forsake his limbs, the child nolonger rest,Drinking joy as…
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Veronicas Napkin by William Butler Yeats
The Heavenly Circuit; Berenice’s Hair;Tent-pole of Eden; the tent’s drapery;Symbolical glory of the earth and air!The Father and His angelic…
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Vacilliation by William Butler Yeats
I Between extremitiesMan runs his course;A brand, or flaming breath.Comes to destroyAll those antinomiesOf day and night;The body calls it…
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Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation by William Butler Yeats
How should the world be luckier if this house,Where passion and precision have been oneTime out of mind, became too…
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Upon A Dying Lady by William Butler Yeats
IHer Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished graceShe lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red hairPropped upon…
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Under The Round Tower by William Butler Yeats
Although Id lie lapped up in linenA deal Id sweat and little earnIf I should live as live the neighbours,Cried…
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