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O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.

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Light, Docks, Beloved

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

William Butler Yeats

Love You, Men, Hair

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.52, Hayes Barton Press

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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney
Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

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Dance, Sea, Play

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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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.

William Butler Yeats

Mother, Light, Body

William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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May we two stand,
When we are dead, beyond the setting suns,
A little from other shades apart,
With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.

William Butler Yeats

Prayer, Hair, Play

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.146, Penguin

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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

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Marriage, Bird, Cages

William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.124, William Butler Yeats

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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

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Growing Up, Shapes, Toes

Last Poems (1939) "Under Ben Bulben" pt. 5

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When we are high and airy hundreds say
That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,
While those same hundreds mock another day
Because we have made our art of common things.

William Butler Yeats

Art, Public Opinion, Another Day

William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.72, Library of Alexandria

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

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Children, Heart, Broken

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
And in some gloomy barrow lie
Folded like a frozen fly.

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Life, Change, Lying

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.

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Children, Heart, Eye

William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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I say that Roger Casement
Did what he had to do,
He died upon the gallows
But that is nothing new.

William Butler Yeats

Roger, Killing, Gallows

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

William Butler Yeats

Character, Coward, Firsts

William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.170

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

William Butler Yeats

Poetry, Limits, Poet

Alexander Norman Jeffares, William Butler Yeats (1984). “A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats”, Palgrave Schol, Print UK

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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

William Butler Yeats

Small Rooms, World, May

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

William Butler Yeats

Ideas, Needs, Stories

William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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Born: June 13, 1865
Died: January 28, 1939
Occupation: Poet
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