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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room...
By William Butler Yeats
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;...
By William Butler Yeats
O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
By William Butler Yeats
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
By William Butler Yeats
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head, You'd know the folly of being comforted.
By William Butler Yeats
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;...
By William Butler Yeats
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there....
By William Butler Yeats
Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,...
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Irrational streams of blood are staining earth; Empedocles has thrown all things about;...
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If this importunate heart trouble your peace With words lighter than air,...
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I—love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb— Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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I struggled with the horror of daybreak, I chose it for my lot! If questioned on...
By William Butler Yeats