More from William Butler Yeats

  1. Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter, seem Enchanted to a stone To trouble the living stream.
  2. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
  3. This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout. He had done most bitter wrong To some who are near my heart, Yet I number him i…
  4. O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name.
  5. All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
  6. I write it out in a verse- MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, chang…
  7. I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod…
  8. Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

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