William Butler Yeats

1865-1939 / Male / Irish
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A Bronze HeadHERE at right of the entrance this bronze head, / Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye, / Everything else withered and mummy-dead.
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A CoatI MADE my song a coat / Covered with embroideries / Out of old mythologies
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A Cradle SongThe angels are stooping / Above your bed; / They weary of trooping
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A Crazed GirlTHAT crazed girl improvising her music. / Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, / Her soul in division from itself
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Adam's CurseWE sat together at one summer's end, / That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, / And you and I, and talked of poetry.
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A Deep Sworn VowOthers because you did not keep / That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; / Yet always when I look death in the face,
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A Dialogue Of Self And Soul{My Soul} I summon to the winding ancient stair; / Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, / Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
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A Dream Of DeathI DREAMED that one had died in a strange place / Near no accustomed hand, / And they had nailed the boards above her face,
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A Drinking SongWine comes in at the mouth / And love comes in at the eye; / That's all we shall know for truth
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A Drunken Man's Praise Of SobrietyCOME swish around, my pretty punk, / And keep me dancing still / That I may stay a sober man
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