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By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
By William Butler Yeats
Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,...
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast,...
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But all is changed, that high horse riderless, Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode...
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And I that have not your faith, how shall I know That in the blinding light beyond the grave...
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And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text...
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Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken, Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent...
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All the heavy days are over; Leave the body's coloured pride Underneath the grass and clover, With the feet laid side by side.
By William Butler Yeats
All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck And that should mother seek her son she'd have but little luck...
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
By William Butler Yeats
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,...
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A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,...
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'... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.'
By William Butler Yeats
'Put the chair upon the grass: Bring Rody and his hounds, That I may contented pass From these earthly bounds.'
By William Butler Yeats
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
By William Butler Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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But I being poor have only my dreams. I have laid my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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You shall go with me, newly-married bride, And gaze upon a merrier multitude. White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds, Feachra of the hurtling form, and him Who is the ruler of the Western Host, Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire. Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
By William Butler Yeats